Dr William Donald Hoskins MBE who has died aged 88 Tributes have been paid to a prominent musician from Abertillery who died has died aged 88. Dr William Donald Hoskins MBE was born in the Abertillery area in June 1932, the son of William and Olive Hoskins. He was delivered by the local midwife Granny Poore, who was paid two shilllings and sixpence (12.5p today). He attended nursery school on the mountain side near his home and accompanied his Aunt Annie Dowden to the Methodist Chapel every Sunday. He was a pupil of Six Bells Junior Mixed, obtaining a scholarship to Abertillery Grammar School. His parents were determined for Donald to pursue his dreams and bought a second-hand grand piano, with his piano lessons beginning at the age of seven years. Theory lessons were often at the local coal pit.
Literally Indescribable: Are Antidepressants Addictive?
“My life was very, very good.”
That’s how Michael sums up how things were for him prior to his suffering from devastating withdrawal effects after discontinuing GlaxoSmithKline’s blockbuster drug Paxil.
Before that, Michael was an educated, successful professional, financially secure, living life to the fullest. He loved working out at the gym, played competitive sports at a high level, and sang in choirs. He also was meticulous about taking care of his health. He never smoked, drank alcohol, or took drugs of any kind.
Michael’s troubles began after he accepted a new position that required him to spend long hours working. He developed arm pain and so sought medical attention for it.
Updated / Thursday, 11 Feb 2021
14:19 No word covers a wider range of feelings and experiences than love
Analysis: timely news for Valentine s Day as research into 50 languages shows that there are at least 14 distinct kinds of love
No emotion, surely, is as cherished and sought after as love. Yet on occasions such as Valentine’s day, we can often be misled into thinking that it consists solely in the swooning, star-crossed romance of falling deeply in love . But on reflection, love is far more complex. Indeed, arguably no word covers a wider range of feelings and experiences than love.
So how can we ever define what love really is? In my new study, published in the Journal for the Theory of Social Analysis, I’ve made a start by searching the world’s languages for words relating to love that don’t exist in English.
AJ 40 under 40: Jayden Ali
11 December 2020 By Merlin Fulcher, illustration by Simon Hayes
A series of east London schemes has won recognition for JA Projects, the practice set up by AJ 40 under 40 architect Jayden Ali
It has been a busy 12 months for Jayden Ali, having been shortlisted for the Camden Highline competition and reaching the final bidding stages for work on Enfield Council’s £6 billion Meridian Water masterplan.
In many ways, this past year could be seen as a breakthrough moment for the ambitious 32-year-old East Ender, who studied at the University of East London and The Cass, worked on the 2012 Olympics while at Allies and Morrison, and went on to found JA Projects in 2017 before being shortlisted to curate the British Pavilion at last year’s delayed Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Barbara Windsor opening a community hub in the Hackney Road.
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Barbara Windsor, the most famous and loved East Ender in real life and on screen, has died at the age of 83.
The “Queen of the East End”, who was awarded a Damehood for services to charity and entertainment and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, played the landlady of The Vic pub in the BBC soap EastEnders for several years and starred in many Carry On films.
A close friend of The Krays, she had humble beginnings in Shoreditch and returned to the Queen Victoria seamen’s rest centre in Limehouse when she opened an extension in 2011. She was also invited to open the first Tower Hamlets Council community hub in the Hackney Road in 2018.