Turbines and love stories

Keighley News reports that an online petition has been set up as part of the fight against the planned 65-turbine development on Walshaw Moor, between Stanbury and Hebden Bridge.

Campaigners say the planned 65-turbine development on Walshaw Moor, between Stanbury and Hebden Bridge, would have a huge environmental and visual impact.

Now they are urging people to back a petition calling on Parliament to ban turbines on protected peatland in England.

Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Wind Farm says 100,000 signatures would secure an MPs’ debate – which needs to take place before the end of the year, when the Government will publish its reformed National Planning Policy Framework.

Opponents of the scheme say it would potentially destroy internationally-recognised wildlife-rich moorland and damage peat bogs, which retain water in an area that experiences flooding.

The campaign group says the Government itself has suggested a ban on windfarms on peatland. [...]

Objectors also include the Haworth-based Bronte Society. It fears the project would ruin the landscape for millions of people from across the world who visit to experience the surroundings that inspired the literary siblings and see ruined farmhouse Top Withens, reputedly the inspiration for the setting of Wuthering Heights.

The Yorkshire Post reports that,

As Bradford continues to mark its status as the UK City of Culture in 2025, there’s a focus on Pictureville Cinema - which is currently celebrating northern women in film.

Yorkshire’s biggest independent cinema, located in Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum, is running a Northern Soul programme - showing films that span six decades. Showcasing the northern female voice in cinema, the screenings include A Taste of Honey (1961), Wuthering Height (2011) and Typist Artist Pirate King (2022).

Curating the season is Clio Barnard, the West Yorkshire-raised writer-director of The Arbor, centred on Bradford writer Andrea Dunbar, The Selfish Giant and Ali & Ava, a moving romance set in the city.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on how 'The way we date has changed, but the fantasy of a ‘big love’ has not'.

British sociologist Anthony Giddens, whose work Portolan references, argues that our ideas around modern romance emerged in lockstep with the rise of the novel: think Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice or Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. (Lauren Ironmonger)

Pop Culture announces that, 'Peacock Celebrates Valentine’s Day With Lineup of Hit Rom-Coms':

Peacock’s streaming lineup throughout the Valentine’s Day season will also feature titles such as Pride And Prejudice, 2013’s Romeo And Juliet, 1939’s Wuthering Heights, and A Walk To Remember, the 2002 film starring Mandy Moore and Shane West. (Allison Schonter)

The Standard features the work of rock'n'roll photographer Gered Mankowitz. He reminisces about taking pictures of Kate Bush:

She was divine, she was marvellous to work with, great in front of the camera.

She was just instinctive. She had hardly done any professional photography.

I was brought in, and was played Wuthering Heights which hadn’t been released yet. I just thought, “this is extraordinary”. And then they played me the video they had made for it and I realised how important dance and movement was to Kate. (Martin Robinson)