Yesterday we published an article about a visit by Conservative Party leadership candidate Liz Truss to Harrogate.
The article reported that Wallace Sampson, chief executive of Harrogate Borough Council, attended a meeting organised by Ms Truss.
Soon after the article was published, we were informed by Harrogate Borough Council that Mr Sampson did not attend. As a civil servant, Mr Wallace would not attend a political event.
We accept he did not attend and immediately removed his name from the article as soon as we were made aware. We are happy to reiterate now that he was not present.
We would like to apologise to Mr Sampson and are happy to set the record straight. We did not uphold our usual high editorial standards on this occasion.
