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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 3282396" data-attributes="member: 2844">The Daily Telegraph today carried the following apology on its website (and should do so in the paper today or soon):"CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report stated that the RSPB was “expected to come under fire” from Natural England in a forthcoming report about hen harrier nests. The information on which this conjecture was based came from a single source and was not checked with Natural England. We accept that further enquiries might have revealed this and that our article was misleading. Although the RSPB was involved in guarding all six nests that failed, we understand that – contrary to what was stated in the original version of the article – it was also involved with three of the six successful ones. We have amended the article accordingly and we apologise for the error"..  Gratifying for those who, like me, complained to IPSO about this blatantly misleading report, but then this was such a glaring abuse that they had little option under their own rules.  Let's not forget that they'll not miss a chance to present an unbalanced picture if they think that they can get away with it.</blockquote>