For the record


We described Norway as "supposedly neutral" during the Second World War ("Writers at the dark heart of national trauma", New Review). To clarify: Norway proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of the war but was nonetheless occupied by Nazi Germany for five years. By 1945, 40,000 Norwegians had joined the resistance. And Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series is set in Bergen, not Stavanger.

"Where the cuts hit women" (In Focus) was wrong to claim that libraries are a "non-statutory provision". The 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act states: "Every library authority [shall] provide a comprehensive and efficient library service." However, the act allows a council to close one or more to ensure a "more efficient service across its whole area".

Actress Saoirse Ronan is Irish, not British (Film of the Week, New Review) and Frank Buxton (Feedback, New Review) is not an Member of Parliament, he's a member of the Institute of Physics.

Full astern: in early editions For the Record said Turner's Fighting Temeraire was at Tate Britain, but she has never left her berth at the National Gallery. Hoist the apology signal.

Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers' Editor, the Observer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, tel 020 3353 4656 or email reader@observer.co.uk
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