UNCERTAINTY still surrounds the outcome of an extraordinary general meeting staged amid a dispute within the Bronte Society.

The organisation has been hit by controversy following calls from some of its members to save Haworth’s Parsonage Museum from what they describe as “underachievement”.

A group of these members have called for the museum to be split from the society to help secure its financial future. They also want the society’s leadership to step down to make way for members willing to modernise the group.

The campaigners, led by television producer John Thirlwell and retired deputy headteacher Janice Lee, last month secured the 50 members’ signatures they need to force an extraordinary meeting to discuss the issue.

Despite the EGM taking place on Saturday, October 18, the decision apparently cannot be revealed: minutes from the meeting have still to be agreed.

A spokesman for the Bronte Society confirmed that the minutes of the EGM were being circulated to members, adding that details would be made public in the near future.