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Letter: For the record

Published 21 November 2007

• A picture captioned “synthetic dyes in the making” (27 October, p 56) was in fact of a carbon-black factory in Romania.

• Feedback’s devotion to Pastafarianism failed to prevent us misspelling its website, which is www.venganza.org (10 November)

• The uncrewed aerial vehicle pictured in our story about the Predator B UAV (27 October, p 29) was in fact the Hermes 450 made by Elbit.

• In a story on oil production (27 October, p 5) we said it was predicted to fall by 7 per cent a year. In fact, the Energy Watch Group report said oil production would fall several per cent a year.

Issue no. 2631 published 24 November 2007

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