The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that Glasgow’s Herald newspaper failed to take care not to publish inaccurate information in reports between 2001 and 2013 about a man charged with and then acquitted of rape.

But it has also said that the newspaper offered a sufficient remedy in the form of a series of corrections and amendments following the breach of Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice.

The complainant, Edward Watt, was acquitted in court in 2001 after the judge ruled that the jury could not find that the “will of the complainer had been overcome by the use of force by the accused”.