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Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day

Why sanitise or sugarcoat the classics? New adaptations of Austen and Brontë could explore everything from slavery to death in childbirth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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The Guardian view on Austen and Brontë adaptations: purists may reel, but reinvention keeps classic novels alive

Editorial: The appetite for onscreen versions of much-loved literature is endless, but dogged faithfulness to a text is not the only way to stay true to authors’ spirit

The Guardian - UK

Former servicemen settle legal claims for more than £700,000 over hearing loss

The cases were some of around 10,000 against the Ministry of Defence over hearing loss suffered during military service.

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‘She should get sacked’: constituents vent anger in Rayner stamp duty row

In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles

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From orgies to marathon sex scenes: how did period drama get so raunchy?

Non-stop coitus, controversial nudity and shocking sex toys: steamy scenes in costume dramas have changed since Colin Firth got his shirt wet in Pride and Prejudice. Here is an outrageous history of small-screen sauciness

The Guardian - UK

Once more unto the breeches: the 20 best Jane Austen TV dramas – ranked!

Colin Firth in a wet shirt! Elizabeth Bennet as a YouTuber! As the BBC marks the author’s 250th anniversary with four-parter Miss Austen, we pick her finest television outings

The Guardian - UK

A new report links being homeless in Australia to dying 40 years early

Homelessness has now taken the lead as Australia’s largest and most damning disparity in life expectancy.

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The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice

Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the BBC’s 1995 TV series ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which catapulted Colin Firth to fame. Charlotte Cripps picks the biggest successes on the 250th birthday of the English literary titan

The Independent UK

Singapore Airlines: Experts from around the world begin probe of deadly turbulence

US National Transportation Safety Board is sending a representative and advisors because the incident involved a Boeing

The Independent UK

Screams, chaos, blood on the floor: passengers describe terrifying turbulence on flight SQ321

Passengers have told of the moment the Singapore Airlines plane hit severe turbulence, sending travellers crashing into the cabin ceiling

The Guardian - AU

What next for Singapore Airlines and the passengers on doomed flight?

The Boeing 777-300ER suddenly and sharply descended to 31,000 feet over about three minutes

The Independent UK

Relieved Travellers Land In Singapore After Deadly Turbulence

Rattled travellers and crew landed in Singapore Wednesday after a terrifying high-altitude plunge on a flight from London during which an elderly passenger died and more than 80 were injured.

International Business Times

Survivor Recounts Harrowing Plane Incident With Tragic Outcome

Passengers on a transatlantic flight face turbulence, injuries, and a fatality, highlighting unity and compassion in times of crisis.

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Briton describes screams and lacerations on chaotic flight that plunged 6,000ft in fatal turbulence

The British survivor warned other air passengers to always wear seatbelt after terrifying Singapore Airlines journey

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Singapore Airlines passengers describe carnage as flight hit severe turbulence: 'People were launched to the ceiling'

One passenger said ‘some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it, they hit the places where lights and masks are and broke straight through it’

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“We do not view AI-generated images as photographs” – photo contest experts talk AI, and the steps they're taking to spot fake photos

Photography contests are adapting to the explosion of AI by modifying their rules and employing multi-layered approaches to spot fake and manipulated images.

The Guardian - UK

Sir Andrew Davis, ex-chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra, dies aged 80

Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestras

The Guardian - UK

Tristram Powell obituary

TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

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‘Once it’s gone, it’s gone’: the last coracle fishers

How dwindling fish stocks and new regulations are killing off the ancient tradition

Evening Standard

Sanditon series 3 ‘has nothing do to with Jane Austen’, says expert

‘Heteronormative’ author would never have written a gay love story, claims Professor

Evening Standard

Sanditon season 3 on ITVX review: all good fun but this particular Austen lemon has now been squeezed dry

As ever, the costumes steal the costume drama in the show that takes Jane Austen’s last, incomplete novel and runs with it

WhatToWatch

I watched War and Peace (finally) and am hooked on Paul Dano's brilliance as Pierre

Paul Dano shines in this awesome adaptation of War and Peace

Daily Mirror

Fake captain who conned holidaymakers out of £272k to pay back just £350 for cruise fraud

Jody Oliver, from Newport, lied that he was captain of a luxury cruise liner so as to con holidaymakers out of £272,000 but a court heard he had only £350 left to pay back to his victims

Manchester Evening News

Manchester's real-life Peaky Blinders only feared one thing

Using specially fashioned belts, sticks and sometimes firearms, the youth gangs struck fear into the city's people - but there was one instrument of punishment they dreaded being on the wrong end of

Texas Observer

Defense Denied

Some our state's poorest are being short-changed on their right to a defense attorney in cases with potentially life-changing consequences.

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