'Ghost Catherine appearing at the bedroom window kept me up at night with the terrors!'

BBC News reports that plans to build houses in Brontë Country have been rejected.

Plans to build houses in an area made famous by the Bronte sisters have been refused.

An application had been submitted for three homes on land off Pasture Avenue in Oakworth, which lies within an area known as Bronte Country.

However, planners said the development would "harm" the conservation area it sat within.

Building the homes would result in a "loss of openness, with no corresponding public benefit" to outweigh that harm, they added. [...]

The area known as Bronte Country includes locations associated with the famous literary sisters who lived in Thornton, Bradford, before moving to their more famous home at the parsonage in Haworth.

Bronte Country is centred on Haworth, but covers a broad stretch of land which inspired many of the sisters' novels. (Chris Young)

Also reported by The Yorkshire Post and The Telegraph and Argus.

Scottish Field asks bookish questions to writer Sara Sheridan.

The first book I remember reading:

I have little memory of my early childhood. I know I learned to read using the Janet and John books but I can’t remember the experience. However, I definitely remember reading Wuthering Heights when I was about ten years old. Ghost Catherine appearing at the bedroom window kept me up at night with the terrors! (Ellie Forbes)

The Independent reviews English Teacher's album This Could Be Texas.

Jangly guitars undergird album opener “Albatross”, a bright and catchy indie rock number that gives way to the rigidly metered guitar riffs of “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab”, an amusing and punchy single built around a knowingly contrived metaphor. “I am the world’s biggest paving slab/ So watch your f***ing feet,” sings Fontaine on the song, which also namechecks a somewhat random smattering of proper nouns from Up North: the actor John Simm; the BNP terrorist arrested on Talbot Street; Charlotte Brontë. (Louis Chilton)