UK News 02-06-2005 who: Dean of Westminster Dr Wesley Carr what: Turns down £100,000 Da Vinci Code film deal where: Westminster Abbey, LONDON when: This week snippet: Lincoln Cathedral will have to double for the Abbey in the forthcoming blockbuster starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, explains The Evening Standard`s Robert Mendick, after all the senior canons and the senior management of the Abbey agreed that it would be inappropriate for them to be linked to the adaptation of Dan Brown`s bestseller, which, says Dr Carr, "mixes up history, literary criticism and theological understanding". Furthermore, tour guides are being issued with information sheets to help them set visitors straight about factual errors contained in the story. In other book news, The Telegraph says "a belligerent 42-page rant written, published and signed by Galileo in 1607" is expected to sell for hal-a-million pounds the Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London next month and The Times reviews the tongue-in-cheek Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel which sets out to "discover truly unbeaten tracks". [... more]

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