New public toilets in Haworth

Several newspapers cover the news that Haworth has now completed the £130,000 refurbishment of its public toilets. From The Telegraph and Argus:

Work to modernise the West Lane toilets in Haworth have been funded through the Keighley Towns Fund.

A modern toilet block was built in Haworth Park in the early 2000s but the West Lane conveniences, near the Brontë Parsonage Museum, required investment to bring them up-to-date.

This year alone, more than 7,000 people used both sets of public toilets in Haworth.

Bradford Council decided to close the toilets in 2018, and Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council took over the conveniences.

However, the Parish Council had said investment was needed in the toilets for them to be brought up to standards.

The Keighley Towns Fund was a £33m pot of cash awarded to Keighley for a variety of regeneration works across the Constituency.

Bradford Council's Executive for Regeneration, Planning and Transport, Councillor Alex Ross-Shaw, said: “We’re pleased to have been able to secure this funding for the public toilets in Haworth through the hard work of the Towns Fund Board and Haworth, Crossroads and Stanbury Parish Council, who have delivered an excellent scheme that I am sure will be appreciated by residents and visitors to Haworth for many years to come.”

Keighley Towns Fund Chair Ian Hayfield added: “The improvements mean the toilets are now more hygienic through fitting touch-less flushing toilets and taps.” (Chris Young)

Also in The Yorkshire Post.

Deseret News lists 'all the books you should add to your summer reading list for summer 2023' and one of them is

‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë

If you’re looking for good, old-fashioned, petticoat-ruffling drama, why not go back to the classics? Look no further than “Wuthering Heights,” written by Emily Brontë of the famous Brontë sisters.

The novel follows Heathcliff, the brooding foster son of West York’s Earnshaw family, as he falls for Cathy, who’s a class above him. His relationship with Cathy proves to be ill-fated and Heathcliff devotes his life to ruining her family. (Natalie Issa)

Writer Sheila Kohler has written an article for Psychology Today:

 In fact, many of my classmates even lifted their hands in the air eagerly in the classroom when we were asked by our teacher how many of us would marry Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" the mysterious interloper and Byronic hero whose tortured rage and jealousy causes so much unhappiness. What we admired and looked for perhaps was his excessive love for Catherine Earnshaw who vacillates between the wildness of her childhood on the moors and her love for Heathcliff and the civilized order and calm luxury of her existence with Edgar Linton.

All these characters give us a chance, perhaps, to express what lies within each one of us: the basic conflicts between a real desire to act with integrity and establish an orderly world, and the desire to triumph, to be a star, a hero or heroine in our own right.

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