First June newsround

Plenty of news today!

Perhaps the most relevant news is this.

Tourists visiting Pendle can now save their weary feet and take the scenic route through witch and Bronte country by car.
Two new trails and a visitors' guide have been launched by Pendle's tourism chiefs for those wanting to taking in the borough's sights and scenes by car.
Guides for the two trails produced are available at Wycoller Craft Centre and Tea Rooms.
They take visitors around Witch Country' and the villages of Barley, Roughlee and Newchurch. There's also one covering Colne, Trawden and Wycoller. A third trail, out soon, will cover the West Craven area.
The car trails will be available from tourist information centres throughout Lancashire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

If you are wondering what this has to do with brontë Country, we will remind you that Wycoller Hall - a beautiful spot - is supposed to have been used by Charlotte Brontë as the model for Ferndean Manor. Go there and judge for yourself, though the place in an advanced state of ruins now. It was in decaying in Charlotte's time already.

Our eyes still hurt from reading the following allusion:

“She really made me like reading. We would discuss books in class all the time. My favorite book was “Weathering Heights” by Emily Bronte,” Boyd said.

Ouch! Obviously the so-called journalist who typed out this article hasn't heard of such a book. Or any other book for that matter.

We are puzzled by an article which starts rambling about open source software reminded by one of the last dialogues in Jane Eyre. Much as we read we can't make head or tail of the connection. What we do understand - and don't like - is that, despite calling it and 'excellent book' they say this:

For those inclined to read the book - and you should (though you can largely skip 50% of the verbiage in the book - Bronte goes on and on and on with 2000-3000 words when 20-30 would do.

Those 'weathering heights' and this are killing us, we tell you. Sheer pain.

And finally two mentions related to girls in school age reading the Brontës. The first article is about a fourth-grade blind girl who has already read Jane Eyre:

Arielle Silverman has always loved to read. From Little Women in fourth grade to Jane Eyre in high school, books were a constant companion. She could slide her fingers across the page and feel the world. Those words, however, have done more than make her well-read. They have secured her place in society.

The second article is about two spelling bee contestants:

Jung was born in South Korea and learned English by reading everything from picture books to "Wuthering Heights" before coming to Queens four years ago.

Unfortunately she lost :(

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