RETRACTION AND APOLOGY

We apologise for the appearance of an erroneous article earlier today, suggesting that the Channel Tunnel had been sold to a Canadian investment consortium. This was completely inaccurate and misleading.

The Channel Tunnel is not for sale and has not been acquired by any Canadian investment funds. The Secretary of State was not, as reported, talking about the Channel Tunnel, which is a concession privately owned by Eurotunnel, but about the sale of High Speed 1.

High Speed 1, the high speed line between St Pancras International and the Channel Tunnel, has been sold to a group of Canadian based infrastructure funds led by Borealis and the Ontario Teacher's Pension Fund.

We apologise to Eurotunnel for our error.

The Editorial Team on The London Daily News