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Brazil per capita income | House of Lords whips | Teesside chemicals industry

Brazil's economy overtakes UK to become world's sixth largest was corrected because the original sub-heading said that figures showed the Brazilian economy rose 2.7% last year compared with the UK's 0.8% – but per capita income "remains a third less". In fact, as the text stated, the figures showed that Brazilian per capita income is a third of per capita income in the UK. In addition, President Lula da Silva was elected in the 2002 presidental elections, not in 2001.

Grand day out at the House of Lords was corrected because it said that "unlike the Commons there is no whip [in the Lords]". This has been clarified, as there are whips in the House of Lords, but their role differs somewhat from that of the Commons' whips.

• A feature – Middlesbrough nightclub lists while residents try to stay afloat – referred to the collapse of Teesside's shipbuilding, steel and chemical industries. While this may describe the dramatic declines in these sectors in the latter part of the 19th century, a reader rightly points out: "The chemical industry on Teesside hasn't collapsed. The process sector is actually growing . . . The steel works are at Redcar and have of course reopened creating 1,500 or so jobs under SSI." A footnote to make this clear has been added to the online article.


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