Corrections and clarifications

Corrections and clarifications column editor

14 April 2024 at 4:00 pm

• Purity was included among London breweries that had fallen into administration. In fact the operation, which as the article said has been acquired by Breal Group, is West Midlands-based (Pint sized profits, 8 April, p31).

• The government estimated last year that additional post-Brexit border checks would add less than 0.2 percentage points to food inflation, not headline inflation, over three years (New border checks ‘will cost UK firms £2bn’, 11 April, p15).

• Other recently amended articles include:

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