News about Ted Hughes

ROBERT HARDMAN: It's the last traces of a house before you are truly out on the 'new, windy moors,' as Kate Bush recalled in her spectacular 1978 debut single of the same name, one that brought Wuthering Heights to a largely new, late twentieth-century audience. It's a delight - though some would say "spooky" or even "Gothic" - coincidence that both Bronte and Bush were born on the same day exactly 140 years ago. Fans of both football and basketball are still here on July 30 in honor of their homage. But will they in years to come?

A lost polar bear from the North Pole can be terrifying in a city: everyone's too occupied with their phones to notice a stranger, take-away coffee tastes disgusting, and the Tube train is packed. Bear's distress is evident, so one small girl takes him home and helps him return to his family. This enthralling tale about finding your tribe by relationships is a joy.

ALISON BOSHOFF: James Norton's (left) career took a dramatic turn in the form of his appearance as psychopath and sexual predator Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley - the final of the year's most watched television shows of the year. In a sad new portrait of poet laureate Ted Hughes (right), who will be depicted as a monster with 'coerce control,' it can be revealed that he is trying to portray another'serial killer' Yorkshireman.' Hughes, who died in 1998, is a figure of fascination for rising TV writer Grace Ofori-Attah, and she has compelled Cambridge University friend Norton to join her on an amazing television drama about his life. Ruth Wilson (top inset) will play Assia Wevill (bottom inset), Hughes' mistress. The series will be based on Lover Of Unreason, a book about Wevill's life, as well as a series of letters from Hughes' first wife, Sylvia Plath, to her mother. In 1956, Hughes married American writer Plath. At the age of 30, she committed suicide in 1963.

If you're the Poet Laureate, it's not necessarily what you want to hear, and certainly not from your employer. When Andrew Motion has his first audience with her, she says, "I'm afraid I don't read much poetry." But she has a good excuse. I have so many of those divine red boxes to read that my government keeps getting them.' Meanwhile, Motion wants to ensure the Queen knows they were colleagues even though he acknowledges that the great Hughes was an impossible feat to follow.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will King Charles wear the Scottish crown when he visits Edinburgh in July to receive the Honours of Scotland? The Queen attended the funeral in 1953, but not crowned to discourage talk of a Scottish coronation. This time, with Scotland having its own parliament, the King is under growing pressure to not wear the diadem. Some fear this will fall into nationalist hands, while others believe it will honor Scotland. At least HM is honoring his Scottish roots by wearing a kilt.

The magpie chick fell in love with the tiny, wild creature that would change her whole life. The nest had blown apart in high winds, and the tiny, furious bird, which had barely survived after being killed by Hughes' spade, was the only one of three chicks to live longer than a day.

After the airing of Happy Valley's last episode, Thomas W Hodgkinson ventures to the Yorkshire town where much of the episode was shot in order to get a 'fix' for the Happy Valley.' 'My visit is nothing like an episode of Happy Valley,' he says, adding: "No one sells me drugs from an ice cream van.' A prison escapee hasn't stabbed me in the neck.'

Welcome to the mighty Pennines, to the town that is unifying light and shadow, good and evil, and more than eight million television viewers in a sweeping showdown: BBC One's Happy Valley's series finale will be released tomorrow night. This is Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, where I have lived for the past decade.

A blast of cold arctic air is heading south, mounding hailstones in drifts along the hedgerows as I write. Temperatures were high just weeks ago, reaching 22C in some areas, but overnight, they're dipping to -10C, a rare and unusual shift. Rapid shifts are pointing to a volatile future for our climate and us. We'll have to adapt in ways we're just beginning to comprehend.

This week, Buckingham Palace revealed that Queen Consort (inset) had selected six of her closest friends to be her 'Queen's companions.' The Camilla decision dropped the more formal 'ladies-in-waiting' title. They will be there to assist Her Majesty and the Company. Jan Etherington, a UK-based writer, discusses the importance of close female friends. Smithy, Viva, and Molly. Back row, Jan (in gold), Prue, Laney and Tuz