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  • The Telegraph

    Paul Weller suits being a grumpy old man – the week’s best albums

    The year 1976 was when a teenage Paul Weller started making waves with fierce punk combo The Jam. But 1966 probably remains the seminal year in Weller’s musical psyche, when his eight-year-old self was absorbing British rock’s expansion into psychedelia with the Beatles, The Who and Small Faces, whilst America poured out soulful shades of urban black pop to empower the UK’s stylish mod scene.

  • Associated Press

    Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation

    Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020. The approval of a second miracle for Acutis was notified by the Pontiff on Thursday during a meeting with the head of the Vatican’s saint-making department, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, a Vatican statement said.

  • BBC

    'Significant risk' to plans for new special school

    Essex County Council is hoping to build the facility across two sites in the south of the county.