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The rhythms of Jane Austen’s novels are so persuasive, their challenges and resolutions so familiar, that playwright Kate Hamill can merrily tease our knowledge again and again in her winking adaptation of “Emma,” now at the Denver Center, through May 5.

Aleesha Bates and Jodie Wilkes got to know the prisoner at HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale, Bolton Crown Court was told. Both women admitted misconduct in a public office at a prior hearing.

Aleesha Bates, 30, and Jodie Wilkes got to know the inmate at HMP Buckley Hall, in Rochdale. Now Bates will spend two years and eight months in jail while Wilkes was given a suspended sentence.

Reading Emma’s tweets would be like reading – well, lots of people’s tweets… I’m finally back on the original 2013 reading list, finishing out the year with appropriate (to me, anyway) seasonal choices.  As is my rule of the last few years, I’m reading my second Jane Austen novel of the year (for many years I read all…

The people, the fear, and the websites, that shut us up.

Cozy up and enjoy Michael Bloom’s adaptation of Jane Austin’s classic, “Emma.”

For legal reasons, I have had to change a few names in this strange story ...

Energy company EDF undercharged the Colchester woman but have since asked her to stump up £1,250 to make up for it

Self-help shelves are filled with guides to surviving midlife, but where is the fiction? Lisa Allardice talks to Marian Keyes, Joanne Harris and others about ‘hot-flush lit’

Two years after the Panic of 1873, which brought a national depression, Fitchburg was still suffering but you’d never know it from the number of spelling matches that year which gathered hundreds of residents at nail-biting competitions of brain power.