An item in the front-page news digest in yesterday's editions was wrongly titled `Circulation increases'. The item referred to the report on the annual Joint National Readership Research which deals with newspaper readership as distinct from newspaper circulation or sales. The map illustrating a report on a new 240-holiday-home development near Enniscrone, published in yesterday's editions wrongly identified Ballina in Co Mayo as Westport.

A letter from Mr Sean Cruden published in the editions of August 30th contained two errors. The organisation which the author represents is the Irish Mental Patients' Educational and Representative Organisation and the American organisation to which he meant to refer in his letter is the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

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