A report in yesterday's editions indicated that Brookham PR was the publicist of U2. In fact the publicist is Lindsey Holmes Publicity.

A map accompanying a feature on housing waiting lists in the editions of Tuesday, October 27th, showed that the Laois waiting list was 350. The actual figure is 920.

The caption under a picture in the editions of Wednesday October 28th stated that it was of children preparing for the recent Hallowe'en in Paris. In fact the picture, taken from the archive, was of pre-Hallowe'en in Paris in 1997.

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