News about Paul Weller

EMILY PRESCOTT: The King seems to have inspired some of the Royal Family's younger members to follow his love of nature. Lady Amelia Windsor, pictured, the granddaughter of the Duke of Kent and second cousin to the King, is now working on a wildflower plot that will be exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Amelia, 28 - once dubbed the most beautiful member of the Royal Family - is also carving out a career as a freelance gardening writer to go with her modelling work. The stylish aristocrat, pictured below among daffodils in a post on her social media account, says of her Chelsea role: 'So excited and honoured to be a very small part of the team for Kent Wildflower Seeds's first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.'

Since works to upgrade the motorway's away trade worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, a common pit stop off the M25 could come to a close. Stephen Bungay, 48, (left), has been an owner of Ockham Bites (inset), a Cobham, Surrey company, for nearly 22 years, but claims he has lost £135,000 in sales since work began to modernize that section of the highway 18 months ago. Last week, motorists were stuck in five-hour delays as a section closed for the first time. Mr Bungay says the roadworks make it impossible for people to visit his cafe, and that the hours of delay often mean people who do not come in are often using his bathrooms rather than buying anything. Balfour Beatty's construction site has caused more confusion due to the destruction of surrounding woodland and reduced parking availability.

In the first century AD, Romans fired clay bricks into Britain. These bricks were wider and thinner than those of today, and they were used in a variety of ways: as lacing courses in wall of ruins stonemasonry and the design of hypocaust pillars for hypothermia (underground heating systems), used in Roman baths and other public buildings. The Balkerne Gateway in Colchester, Essex, which dates to at least the second century AD, is an early example of Roman brickwork. Burgh Castle in Norfolk, a third-century Roman fort, has alternating courses of flint and brickwork. Numerous examples of Roman hypocaust structures exist, including one at Cilurvum, a Roman fort at Chesters, Northumberland, which is near to Hadrian's Wall. Brick production in the Romans fell by a 600 to 700 year gap since the Romans were ruled out in AD 410. Any buildings were constructed with re-used Roman bricks, for example, the nave of St Albans Cathedral. This building began in the 11th century, using materials from Roman British town Verulamium.

Vince Power, the Irish-born father-of-eight (bottom left in 1990, right in 2020, bottom right with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan), had a number of jobs, including turning ice cream bars into boxes before he rose to become a central figure in the music industry. With headline acts ranging from Nirvana and the Stone Roses to Eminem and Dizzee Rascal, he converted the Reading Festival from a struggling jazz festival that he started in 1989 to a highlight of the music scene. Power's list of events (bottom right, last year) appeared at Leeds Festival in 1999. In 1982, Mean Fiddler, a former gambling den in Harlesden, north-west London, that had previously been frequented by gangsters the Kray twins and the Richardsons, opened in a former gambling den, which had once been frequented by gangsters the Kray twins and the Richardsons. It was there that the likes of the Pogues, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison appeared. Nell, the power's daughter, paid tribute to her father on Instagram yesterday. 'My always optimistic funny driven warm father" a slew of photos (one inset) of them together, she wrote, 'My eternally positive funny driven generous warm dad.' A number of actors had their own warm words for the promoter. On X, Paul Weller, the Jam's former frontman, expressed regret for the loss of Vince Power, who was a good friend and will be greatly missed.' Thank you mate and well done.'

Over the weekend, Paul Weller appeared on stage at the Sydney Opera House. The 65-year-old rocker, best known for his bands The Jam and The Style Council, appeared at the Concert Hall on Friday and Monday, with follow-up shows on Saturday and Monday. With his guitar in his hands, the English singer-songwriter appeared at home on stage, performing to a captivated audience in the round.

Sally Lindsay has opened the truth to her ecstatic marriage to her rock star husband Steve White. Shelley Unwin, a former Coronation Street actress who appeared on the soap from 2001 to 2006, married a crowd of celebrity friends shortly before Christmas in 2013. She and Steve, 58, who spent time on drums with Paul Weller's band The Style Council, walked down the aisle together, having met ten years ago.

The model, 32, and her partner, Tomo Kurata, who also have a son Kouzen, are expecting their second child together. With a slew of doting snaps, musician Paul Weller, 65, announced the joy on Christmas day.

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In broad daylight outside a celebrity recording studio, three thugs on bikes smash the back window of a car and take bags from the boot. Last week, a robbery took place outside the Westpoint Studios in Acton, west London, where a vehicle had been left in a loading bay. According to Westpoint Studios' website, the company has hosted hundreds of celebrities, including Adele, Bjork, Frank Ocean, Dizzee Minogue, Kylie Minogue, Little Mix, Pete Tong, Pharrell Williams, Take That and Tom Jones. After bags were left on display on the parcel shelf, the sleek £55,000 Audi A7's rear window was smashed.

Dylan Weller's daughter Dylan has found love off screen with musician Henny Seear after being cut off from the show. At the Bluebird in Chelsea, the model, 26, told Richard Eden of The Daily Mail, 'I have a boyfriend.'

Prince Albert of Monaco seems to be keen to maintain close contact with Princess Charlene, who is believed to be living in Switzerland. This week, the monarch, 65, celebrated his son Alexandre's 20th birthday and was photographed with his mother Nicole Coste. Albert's daughter, Tamara Rotolo, Jazmin, was also there. Charlene, the mother of Albert's two legitimate children, sadly missed the festival. But then maybe she wasn't invited?

DAVID LLOYD: For the one last time, we're back to the Big Smoke for one last time. Plenty to do and plenty to see, but it seems that England is doubly determined to achieve the success that they require. Ben Stokes' team has been the most consistent outfit over the course of four Tests, but the truth is that they are not winning. That's sport. Anyways, 2-2 will be so much better than 3-1. I'm sure my pre-series pick of Australia winning 3-1 is correct, but I hope it isn't false. I hope I'm wrong; these lads are entitled to at least watch the film. There's a lot of talk about entertaining this week, but this week it's pretty basic. Boys, you should only win the Test.

Blur were back with a bang on Wednesday evening after they appeared at a live gig in Colchester. It comes shortly after they revealed that they would debut their new album The Ballad Of Darren in just a matter of months. This is eight years since the rock stars' last chart-topping album The Magic Whip appeared.

Finding out that snooker legend Steve Davis wants to DJ in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium this summer is a bit like learning that Greta Thunberg applied for a pilot's license or the Pope is getting married. This, after all, is the 65-year-old world champion, whose deadpan demeanour and monotonous interview style earned Spitting Image to name Steve 'Interesting' Davis, according to the satirical TV show Spitting Image. The prospect that he would be dancing between sets by headliners Blur and support acts including Paul Weller seems unlikely, and no one is more surprised than the 'Romford Robot' himself. 'It's ridiculous, and I haven't really got a clue how it came about,' he says. 'I'm scared.'

At the age of 64, the former Jam frontman began a new Hollywood career by locating himself in Saoirse Ronan's prestigious company. Blitz is a war film set in motion. The film, directed by Sir Steve McQueen, tells the tale of the Nazi bombing raids that terrorized London in the 1940s. Going Underground, That's Entertainment, and Town Called Malice are among Weller's hits, as the frontman of Mod revivalists The Jam, as well as albums like All Mod Cons and Setting Sons.

On Friday, Saoirse Ronan, 28, slipped into her new role as she arrived on the set of World War II film Blitz. Paul Weller, a musician who made his name on the music industry for the first time, was welcomed on the big screen for the first time.

JACK TEAGUE: The Chelsea Harbour Club is one of the country's most popular fitness centers, with past members including Princess Diana and Prince David paying more than £2,000 a month. However, news has landed that standards at the state-of-the-art museum, which also boasted the current Prince and Princess of Wales as members. The Spa area is soiled, and the majority of the buildings are broken,' says one irate gymgoer who, with her husband, has been a member for more than a decade.' There is never any soap or shampoo in the changing rooms, and we've been told to "bring our own."

Every year, the Victorious Festival is the UK's biggest metropolitan festival, taking place over the Bank Holiday Weekend in August. Victorious is one of the most spectacularly located festivals in the United Kingdom, set on the stunning Southsea seafront in Portsmouth. Southsea Castle, one of the most spectacular parts of the seaside festival, was once owned by Henry VIII and built in 1544.