• A quote by Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, within a panel that formed part of the Palestine papers, was cut in a way that may have given a misleading impression. The quote appeared as: "The Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we'll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state." To clarify, the full quote is: "I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we'll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state." (What they said ... 24 January, page 4.)

• Birth parents may not apply for special guardianship orders in respect of their own children as we stated in an article about adoption (Problem solved, 5 February, page 7, Family).

• An article about musical education was illustrated with a photograph of a Liverpool schoolgirl playing a stringed instrument. It was a small double bass, not a cello as the caption said (Bittersweet symphonies, 9 February, page 19, G2).

• A review of Koya, the Soho restaurant that specialises in udon, compared the three main types of Japanese noodle and should have referred to soba as a thin, not thick, buckwheat noodle, firmer than the soft, thick udon. Tampopo is the food-porn classic movie of the early 1980s, not 1990s as we had it (Restaurants, 5 February, page 56, Weekend).