1 Mgr James Curry blesses the refurbished Pauline Books and Media book centre on Kensington High Street in west London.
2 The Voluntary Service at New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex, hosts a Children’s Charity Day Camp, attended by 21 children from local schools.
3 Emily Cattle has been appointed head of classics at Barrow Hills School in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and its partner school, King Edward’s Witley.
4 The Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem’s Grand Priory of England and Wales holds an investiture ceremony at the Church of St Catherine Labouré in Farington, Lancashire.
5 Students at St Benedict’s, Ealing, in west London, present a cheque for £5,570 to Cancer Research UK.
6 Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster blesses the St Joseph’s Almshouses in Cadogan Street, south-west London (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk).
7 Archbishop Edward Adams, Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, Archbishop Leo Cushley of St Andrews and Edinburgh and Archbishop Mario Conti, Archbishop Emeritus of Glasgow, attend the Red Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Paul McSherry).
8 St Martha’s Catholic Primary School in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, celebrates its 60th anniversary and the official opening of a £3.5m extension that has enabled it to double in size from 210 to 420 places.
9 Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham, Cheshire, has named Robin Latham as its new head of sixth form.
10 Almost 150 people – including the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham and the Anglican bishops of Lichfield and Birmingham – take part in a walk of friendship from Birmingham to Lichfield.
11 Thirteen volunteers and staff from HCPT in the Midlands have raised almost £10,000 for its Lourdes pilgrimages next year with a sponsored skydive. Donate at justgiving.com/teams/hcptskydive.
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