Haworth church roof: still leaking

Digital Spy reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and gives it 4 out of 5 stars:

The latest Wuthering Heights is down-and-dirty, with Arnold employing the same kind of handheld camerawork and boxey 4x3 screen ratio as her BAFTA-winning predecessor Fish Tank. The stylistic immediacy jars at first given the built-in genre expectations, but viewers accustomed to Arnold's directorial approach will certainly find it a rewarding experience. [...]
Brontë purists may scoff at Arnold's radical approach to the 19th century novel, but in truth this overhaul completely re-energises the story for a new generation. This Wuthering Heights casts black actors as Heathcliff, giving the tale a layer of racial tension on top of its class friction.
Heathcliff arrives to the Earnshaws with whip marks on his back and a branding scar, hinting at a painful slave upbringing. It's wise to wave goodbye to romanticism, too, as this incarnation is intense, no more so when a wealthy Heathcliff returns in his 20s.
Moving and tender performances from first-time actors Glave and Beer carry the film for the first hour before the older actors take over. It's the younger duo that make the bigger impression, playfully frolicking through the moors as Arnold's camera explores the rolling Yorkshire landscape. With the tragic romance and keen eye for nature, there's a streak of Terrence Malick's '70s classic Badlands running through the heart of the film.
Scodelario and Howson get less screen time than their younger counterparts, and consequently their bond never feels quite as strong. She, still married to Edgar, is keeping her emotions in check, while he, somewhat cruelly, plays with the affections of Isabella Linton (Nichola Burley) to torture Cathy.
Wuthering Heights is challenging and has moments that are tough to watch (animal lovers may find themselves squirming) - and those art house sensibilities will mean its audience remains limited - but its darkness and brutality make it a totally unique take on the costume drama. (Simon Reynolds)

And the Liverpool Daily Post reviews Withering Looks:

Withering Looks uses high-brow, classic literature to create innovative comedy, which is delightfully clever and silly.
The two-woman show is a whistle-stop history of the lives of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and their novels.
With tongue firmly in cheek, Maggie Fox explains the third sister, Anne, is missing due to Government cut backs in the arts but they’ve put in a lottery application and hope to add her to the production soon.
The show’s style is charmingly informal and when a prop malfunctions or Fox fluffs a line it adds to the comedy and endears them to the audience.
It’s a manic mixed bag of comedy from witty one-liners to giddy song and dance routines, slapstick to the purely random.
One scene is introduced as Brontë exam tips for students. After a hair-brained routine demonstrating how the sisters wrote so much and why their writing was so similar, Fox quips: “That’ll give you ammunition for anything Michael Gove throws at you.”
Sue Ryding, as Emily, treats the audience to a batty run-through of Wuthering Heights’ plot using cardboard cut-outs.
She explains to sister Charlotte, played by Fox, that Heathcliff likes to dig up Cathy’s dead body for a cuddle sometimes.
Dressed in ripped sheets, the duo also performs a sketch as lost souls wandering the moors. Although it includes a jolly song called It’s No Fun Being a Ghost, these bits are a little slow and if any improvement were to be done to the production, it should be here.
Sporting wild wigs, the crack-pot twosome perform their interpretation of the 1939 MGM film of Wuthering Heights to end the night.
This is superbly silly and definitely leaves the audience wanting moor... (Jo Kelly)

The Haworth church roof is still in need of repairs, as The Telegraph and Argus reports:

One of the most visited churches in the UK has issued a fresh appeal for funds to carry out repairs on its leaking roof.
Haworth Parish Church, the burial place of the Brontë sisters, needs to raise £1.25 million to carry out essential repairs and improvements.
But after almost a year of fundraising the church has raised only £15,000.
Now church leaders are pleading for people to dig deep to safeguard the historic church’s future.
The Reverend Peter Mayo-Smith said: “The roof is really in a bad state of repair. It is old and had come to the end of its life, but repeated lead thefts haven’t helped.
“We have got to get this building sorted. The water runs through the ceiling and down the walls and we clean up puddles of it every time it rains.
“In the south aisle there has been a tarpaulin fixed to the ceiling over the organ for more than two years to protect it from the water coming in.”
English Heritage has agreed in principal to pay 60 per cent of the £250,000 needed to fix the leaks. However, the church still needs to find at least £185,000 before the building can be made watertight and further funds will be needed for internal improvements.
Mr Mayo-Smith said: “It became very obvious to me through conversations in the village that people weren’t aware of the seriousness of the state of the building.
“Since we have announced it people have been incredibly generous, but we have still got a long way to go.”
Visit haworthchurch.co.uk to donate to the restoration fund.

The Guardian mentions Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in connection to Florence and the Machine:

These are songwriters who seem considerably more stewed, more sensual, more sinewy, who quite unabashedly draw their inspiration from mythology, artistic movements, historical figures, fables, fairytales, politics and literature. Think of Kate Bush, for instance, using Emily Brontë's novel for her 1978 hit Wuthering Heights, or of PJ Harvey's Let England Shake seizing on the poetry of Pinter and Eliot, British military history, and the art of Goya and Dalí. Think of the fact that Florence's new album offers songs about devilry, science lessons and horses, while Marina and the Diamonds has promised that her next record will involve a character named Electra Heart, and tackle subjects such as female sexuality and corruption of the self. (Laura Barton)

And a Twitter timeline of the International Rugby Board Awards 2011 reports that

IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key have welcomed the assembled guests and Hayley Westenra has wowed them withe two songs - World in Union and Wuthering Heights.

The Time Out blog suggests a trip to

The Costume Studio, 159-161 Balls Pond Road, N1 4BG (020 7923 9472)
An impressive selection of authentic-looking costumes and trimmings but at a price: around £80 an outfit for a week’s hire. Their attention to detail makes them a popular choice for costume drama inspired dress. If you’re channeling Downton Abbey or Jane Eyre, The Costume Studio can help.

Diario di una lettrice posts in Italian about Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre.