News about Elizabeth Gaskell

Visitors to the resort of Crome, in Norfolk, have been struck by the dazzling pale blue colour of the sea and compared it to the tropical paradise. Officials have revealed the extraordinary transformation from the usual drab, grey colour of the North Sea is due to work on the area's coastal defences. Workers excavating into the seabed below the beach have exposed a layer of chalk sediment which is mixing with the water above and changing its hue.

• While some of the misty-eyed'mountains' are calling a'school of thought', others may be more'skiing is the only sport in which you can break an arm and a leg.' Here's our list of getaways for both skiers and those who like to pootle about in the mountains. If you're one of the latter - or simply a skier/snowboarder who likes to branch out.

ELIZABETH DAY: I should know better. I've been fighting it for many years. I've tried going cold turkey. People staged their attacks, claiming that I was damaging my brain cells by a manufactured high. I didn't pay attention to the warning. My cravings increased. As I went out in search of nightly pleasure, I cancelled plans. I promised myself it was one final hit every time. But it never was the final hit, was it? I'm also addicted to Love Island. Since the last bad winter season filmed in South Africa, where the temperatures weren't so bikini-friendly, I didn't think I'd be doing so. The wind picked up in the evenings, hair extensions whipped across faces, and couples huddled together for warmth rather than romance.

The property is listed for £950,000 and is on the fringes of the picturesque Lancashire coastal village of Silverdale. It includes a separate three-bedroom cottage that can be used for living quarters, as well as a three-bedroom cottage, although the tower can be rented out to help with additional income. Although the property is no longer taking reservations as it is on the market, the tower was successfully rented out last year at an advertised rate of between £80 and £90 per night.

A novel about the poverty of the poor has been a catalyst for a 'extreme classism' by a top university. Mary Barton, who was born in 1848 by Elizabeth Gaskell (pictured), may enrage students with its concentration on class struggles in Manchester, according to Warwick University. The book's 'content note', which includes representations of prostitution, states that'misogyny recurs throughout' and that there are'references to bleak and violent deaths.'