Smith) as did I Can Only Give You Everything.

4) Mervyn and Phil Solomon got the band signed to Decca on a two-year deal, but by summer 1966 Morrison had left – and became involved in a series of contractual disputes that would last until he was able to sign to Warner Brothers and release Astral Weeks in 1968.

5) The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998 was actually released in 2000.

6) Lead Belly Fest with Van Morrison, Eric Burdon and Jools Holland, is at Royal Albert Hall, London on Monday 15 June.Teachers Begin To See Unfair Student Loans Disappear

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Nearly 2,300 teachers have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs, according to previously unreleased figures from the U.S. Department of Education. The move follows reporting by NPR that exposed a nightmare for public school teachers across the country.

In exchange for agreeing to work in low-income schools, aspiring teachers could get federal Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grants from the department to help pay their way through college. But those grants were often unfairly turned into loans that teachers had to pay back.

In December, the Education Department proposed a fix. Now, that fix has been expanded, and thousands more teachers