• We should not have put the headline "Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs" on a story about an admission, by the former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv, that during the 1990s specialists at the institute harvested organs from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers without getting permission from the families of the deceased (21 December, page 15). That headline did not match the article, which made clear that the organs were not taken only from Palestinians. This was a serious editing error and the headline has been changed online to reflect the text of the story written by the reporter.

• A leader in praise of Cumbrian spirit said that the county council's motto, Ad montes oculos levavi, translated strictly as "I shall lift up mine eyes to the hills". That should have been "I have lifted up mine eyes to the hills" (10 December, page 36).

• A diary item expressed the view that an actor playing Michael Martin, former Speaker of the House of Commons, would keep the place looking nice, though he might not excel at the Woolsack. Quite right: he would be in the wrong chamber – the Woolsack is in the House of Lords (18 December, page 37).