In Brief: is Charity the new Kate?

The BBC is making another adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, with actress Charity Wakefield (pictured) in the role that launched Kate Winslet's career, Marianne Dashwood. The new version is "more overtly sexual than most previous Austen adaptations", says scriptwriter Andrew Davies... Ian Bone, anarchist founder of Class War, the infamous magazine that greeted the birth of Prince William with the headline "Another fucking royal parasite" has spoken about the new film being made of his memoirs, joking he was disappointed not to be played by Dennis Hopper or Christopher Walken... Former deputy PM John Prescott's son David, who is 37, is rumoured not to be the Labour party's favourite candidate for his father's bedrock-safe seat in Hull East. Labour HQ and the unions are said to favour Chris Leslie, aide to Gordon Brown, even though he has been tarnished by the anonymous donations scandal... ·