diff --git a/e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts b/e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts
index 9c18dc8..b3fdbc0 100644
--- a/e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts
@@ -1252,7 +1252,11 @@ test('a published cut-off distance is shown with the year it belongs to', async
   await expect(label).toContainText(`September ${found!.distance.year}`);
 
   // And the figure itself, in the unit councils publish in.
-  await expect(page.getByText(/\d+(\.\d+)? (miles|m)\b/).first()).toBeVisible();
+  // No trailing \b: the tile's support figure is an adjacent text node, so
+  // the element reads "0.88 miles 1.4 km" and a word boundary after "miles"
+  // is not guaranteed. The leading shape is what matters — a decimal figure
+  // in miles, never a metric one.
+  await expect(page.getByText(/\d+\.\d+ miles/).first()).toBeVisible();
 });
 
 test('a cut-off distance is never shown without saying it is not a catchment', async ({ page }) => {
@@ -1340,7 +1344,27 @@ test('a school page shows no year-by-year cut-off record', async ({ page }) => {
   // history back without the API.
   await expect(page.getByText(/Last distance offered, by year/)).toHaveCount(0);
   await expect(page.getByText(/too few to read as a trend/)).toHaveCount(0);
-  await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Distance' })).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  /*
+   * No "Distance" tab in the admissions segmented control.
+   *
+   * Scoped to the control, and exact, because getByRole matches accessible
+   * names by case-insensitive SUBSTRING: an unscoped { name: 'Distance' }
+   * matched "Show this distance on a map" — the map toggle added by this same
+   * feature — and failed a page that was entirely correct. Naming the group
+   * this assertion is about also means unrelated copy elsewhere on the page
+   * can never break it again.
+   */
+  const viewToggle = page.getByRole('group', { name: 'Admissions view' });
+  const tabs = await viewToggle.getByRole('button').allTextContents();
+
+  // Read the tabs positively rather than asserting an absence against a
+  // locator that might resolve to nothing: if the group selector ever stops
+  // matching, an absence check passes for the wrong reason, which is how the
+  // bug this test is guarding would slip back in unnoticed.
+  expect(tabs, 'admissions view toggle did not resolve').toContain('This year');
+  expect(tabs.map((s) => s.trim()), `admissions tabs: ${tabs.join(', ')}`)
+    .not.toContain('Distance');
 });
 
 test('the postcode check answers for the published year, and names it', async ({ page }) => {
@@ -1354,7 +1378,7 @@ test('the postcode check answers for the published year, and names it', async ({
   await expect(section).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
 
   await page.getByLabel('Your postcode').fill('SW1A 1AA');
-  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Check' }).click();
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Check', exact: true }).click();
 
   const result = page.getByRole('status');
   const error = page.getByRole('alert');
diff --git a/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/lastDistanceOffered.test.tsx b/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/lastDistanceOffered.test.tsx
index 0c30e16..9f16df5 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/lastDistanceOffered.test.tsx
+++ b/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/lastDistanceOffered.test.tsx
@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ describe('primary detail page', () => {
     expect(screen.getByText(/Last distance offered/)).toHaveTextContent('September 2024');
   });
 
+  it('keeps the figure and its metric support readable as two numbers', () => {
+    // They are flex children with a CSS gap and nothing between them in the
+    // text layer, which read as "0.48 miles770 m" to a screen reader and to any
+    // text matcher. Cheap to lose again, so pinned.
+    renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff({ distance_m: 772.49 }) });
+
+    const tile = document.querySelector('[class*="admissionsTileDistance"]')!;
+    expect(tile.textContent).toMatch(/0\.48 miles\s+770 m/);
+    expect(tile.textContent).not.toMatch(/miles\d/);
+  });
+
   it('never shows the figure without saying it is not a catchment', () => {
     renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff() });
 
diff --git a/nextjs-app/components/school/AdmissionsSection.tsx b/nextjs-app/components/school/AdmissionsSection.tsx
index 6b423b7..fcac056 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/components/school/AdmissionsSection.tsx
+++ b/nextjs-app/components/school/AdmissionsSection.tsx
@@ -70,10 +70,16 @@ export function AdmissionsSection({
   {/* Spans both columns rather than taking a half-width cell. This is the
       figure parents come to the page for, and at tile width the two-line
       "0.31 miles / September 2025" pairing wraps badly. */}
+  {/* The {' '} between the figure and its metric support is not decoration.
+      The two are flex children, so the gap is drawn by CSS and the text layer
+      had nothing between them: textContent read "0.88 miles1.4 km", which is
+      what a screen reader announces and what any text matcher sees. Whitespace
+      text nodes are not rendered as flex items, so this changes the reading
+      without changing the layout. */}
   const distanceTile = cutoff && (
     <div className={`${styles.admissionsTile} ${styles.admissionsTileDistance}`}>
       <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>
-        {cutoff.primary}
+        {cutoff.primary}{' '}
         <span className={styles.admissionsTileSub}>{cutoff.secondary}</span>
       </dd>
       <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>
diff --git a/nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx b/nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx
index 7510a2e..49c8970 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx
+++ b/nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export function SecondaryAdmissionsSection({
               Last distance offered · {cutoff.entryYear}
             </div>
             <div className={styles.metricValue}>
-              {cutoff.primary}
+              {cutoff.primary}{' '}
               <span className={styles.metricValueSub}>{cutoff.secondary}</span>
             </div>
           </div>