Oh Mr Darcy! Pride and Prejudice among classic novels to receive erotic makeover - News - Books. The company said that it was "100% convinced" that there was a market for the racy versions of the 19th century novels by authors Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen and that the spicing up of the much-loved books will introduce the classics to "a new generation of readers". Other titles to be published under the Clandestine Classics collection include Austen's Northanger Abbey and Arthur Conan Doyle's stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. The announcement comes following the phenomenal success of EL James's "mummy porn" title Fifty Shades Of Grey, which is said to be the fastest-selling book of the year. Some original fans of Jane Eyre might be unhappy to discover that the female protagonist has "explosive sex with Mr Rochester" in the publisher's erotic edition.
In Wuthering Heights, heroine Catherine Earnshaw "enjoys bondage sessions" with Heathcliff while sleuth Sherlock Holmes has a sexual relationship with his sidekick Dr Watson in the new e-book. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Uncils' lack of cash hits 7,000 elderly and disabled - Health News - Health & Families. In the past two years, at least 17 councils have withdrawn social care for people who they deemed to have "moderate needs".
In the first two years of the coalition, 11 authorities told more than 5,000 elderly or disabled people that their care was being withdrawn, while more than 2,000 people saw their packages cut. A further six councils are cutting help in this financial year. According to council guidelines, those with "moderate" needs run the "risk [of] losing gas, electricity and water supplies", as well as "falling into debt", without support. Campaigners warn of a "system in crisis", which leaves vulnerable people to cope without the help they had come to rely upon. Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, is expected to announce changes to the care system this week in a White Paper and draft Bill on social care. However, he risks a backlash from campaigners, charities and opposition parties by failing to reach a decision on how social care will be paid for in future. Case studies... The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper.
Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life - in pictures - Features, Art. From Roman sewage to 19th Century ‘disinfectors’ and modern day landfill sites, the exhibition explores the various ways civilisation has dealt with its own grime. It encompasses the medical, the scientific, the sociological and the artistic manifestations of dirt. A welcome relief from the heavily sanitised view of life we normally see. The collection has been gathered together for the Wellcome Trust’s ‘dirt’ season, in order to survey our “often misunderstood” and “complex” relationship with it.
Highlights include a ‘cholera preventive costume’ (for which the wearer is asked to don the best part of a tree); ‘Monster soup’, otherwise known as the contents of Thames Water as drawn by William Heath; and a pastoral view of the ‘great dust heap’ beside London’s King’s Cross circa 1840. Click here or on the image to view the exhibition in pictures. Disabled fear 'pencil test' to claim benefits - Health News, Health & Families.
Johann Hari: We're not being told the truth on Libya - Johann Hari, Commentators. Yet now we are told that these people have turned into the armed wing of Amnesty International. They are bombing Libya because they can't bear for innocent people to be tyrannised, by the tyrants they were arming and funding for years. As Obama put it: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different". There was a time, a decade ago, when I took this rhetoric at face value. Imagine a distant leader killed more than 2,000 innocent people, and his military commanders responded to evidence that they were civilians by joking that the victims "were not the local men's glee club". Surely, if we meant what we say about Libya, we would be doing anything to stop such behaviour?
Yet, in this instance, we would have to be imposing a no-fly zone on our own governments. His administration claims they are killing al-Qa'ida. The war in the Congo is the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe. Why? Www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/walls-have-eyes-houses-that-look-like-people-2257833.html?action=Gallery.