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Expectations were certainly great when Mike Newell announced this lavish retelling of Dickens to coincide with the bicentenary of the writer’s birth.

ON A Thursday morning when most youngsters would rather be out enjoying the spring sunshine, all eyes are firmly fixed on the whiteboard at the top of Tim Burke’s English class.

Helena Bonham Carter is in negotiations to star as Miss Havisham in a movie version of Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'.