• We said that “levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere need to be cut by 80 per cent by the middle of the century” (11 October, p 3); we meant to say that the rate of CO2 emissions needed to be cut by 80 per cent.
• We said that the Royal Naval Air Station Milltown, where three planes “fell out of the sky” one day (not night) in the 1940s, was in Aberdeenshire (11 October, p 20). It was in Morayshire.
