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  • My experience as a mental health carer, Hemel Hempstead Gazette

    My experience as a mental health carer, Hemel Hempstead Gazette

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  • Carpet queen , The Village

    Carpet queen , The Village

    Queen of the Carpets

    Carpet one

    Carpet two

  • Swedish chef, Curry Life

    Swedish chef, Curry Life

    Karim spreads his wings

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  • NHS Leaders, Health Service Journal

    NHS Leaders, Health Service Journal

    Should the NHS develop leaders collaboratively?

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  • Dementia

    Dementia

    Dementia

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    dementia-2

  • His love of food is what keeps him interested in cooking

    His love of food is what keeps him interested in cooking

    His love of food is what keeps him interested in cooking

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  • Film director, The People

    Film director, The People

    Lights, Camera, Action…

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  • Breaking down barriers

    Breaking down barriers

    Breaking down barriers

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    mental-2

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  • Happy hours

    Happy hours

    Happy hours

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  • Mortuary technician, The Guardian

    Mortuary technician, The Guardian

    A senior anatomical pathology technician

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  • Leading from the front

    Leading from the front

    Leading from the front

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  • Heads held high

    Heads held high

    Heads held high

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  • King Cobra, The Village

    King Cobra, The Village

    King Cobra

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  • Hairdresser, Brent People

    Hairdresser, Brent People

    A cut above the rest

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  • Aninal warden, Brent People

    Aninal warden, Brent People

    Angela’s animal world

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  • Q&A, Curry Life

    Q&A, Curry Life

    Celebrated chef Atul Kochhar speaks to curry life

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  • Louis Wain, Kilburn Times

    Louis Wain, Kilburn Times

    Louis has the magic touch

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  • Urban trout, The Village

    Urban trout, The Village

    Return of the King

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  • Mentally ill offenders, The Independent

    Mentally ill offenders, The Independent

    Mentally ill offenders: Our fear of introducing them back into society

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  • NHS management, The Guardian

    NHS management, The Guardian

    Bridging the gap between doctors and NHS management

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  • Mental health, The Guardian

    Mental health, The Guardian

    Fast-tracking graduates into mental health jobs

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  • Mortuary, The Village

    Mortuary, The Village

    Every body’s friend

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  • My work in the mortuary

    My work in the mortuary

    My work in the mortuary

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  • A view from the bridge

    A view from the bridge

    A view from the bridge

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  • Play your part in commissioning

    Play your part in commissioning

    Play your part in commissioning

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  • Prison doctor, GP

    Prison doctor, GP

    Working as a prisoner doctor

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  • Mental health remains the poor relation

    Mental health remains the poor relation

    Mental health remains the poor relation

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  • SIKH GP shows a lot of heart

    SIKH GP shows a lot of heart

    SIKH GP shows a lot of heart

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  • GP, Ilford Recorder

    GP, Ilford Recorder

    Meet the ‘super GP’

    shah

  • Sikh runners, R.Life

    Sikh runners, R.Life

    Your chances to join city runners

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  • WWI, The Village

    WWI, The Village

    Heartbreak and Heroes

    War one

    War two

    War Three

  • VC winner, Brent People

    VC winner, Brent People

    Charles Garforth won his first medal

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  • Dye, Harrow People

    Dye, Harrow People

    The colour purple

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  • Marathon, Brent People

    Marathon, Brent People

    Exhausted chef won the heart of Brent

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  • VC doctor, The Village

    VC doctor, The Village

    One of the bravest doctors to walk the wards of St. George’s Hospital

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  • John Betjemen, Kilburn Times

    John Betjemen, Kilburn Times

    How poet fell for Brent

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  • Beer boss, Curry Life

    Beer boss, Curry Life

    The comeback king

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  • Travel agent, Curry Life

    Travel agent, Curry Life

    High flying Helal

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  • Final stop in hospital care

    Final stop in hospital care

    Final stop in hospital care

    mortuary

  • Mo Gherras, Curry Life

    Mo Gherras, Curry Life

    Mo’s secret of success

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  • Hospital chaplain, U.Gazette

    Hospital chaplain, U.Gazette

    Spiritual Adviser is anything but orthodox

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  • Kilburn Times – The man who loved cats

    Kilburn Times – The man who loved cats

    This article originally appeared in the Kilburn Times.

    Artists find inspiration in many things. Vincent van Gogh loved the intense colours of the Provencal countryside, Paul Gaughin the exotic beauty of the South Sea Islands and Monet his beloved gardens which inspired his famous water lily paintings.

    Louis Wain’s passion was cats.

    The London suburban artist produced tens of thousands of drawings and illustrations of cats in a variety of human poses and occupation.

    His caricatures gently poked fun at the absurdity of everyday life but his humour hid a lifelong struggle with mental illness.

    At his height of his fame, Wain was one of the world’s most popular artists but he died alone in a mental hospital in 1939.

    Top Cat: A Louis Wain cat

    Top Cat: A Louis Wain cat

    His unique talent would have gone undiscovered but for his wife’s encouragement.

    The couple had received a kitten as wedding gifts and, when his wife fell ill with cancer, Wain spent hours at her bedside in sketching the cat as it played among the covers

    Louis already worked as a newspaper artist and his dying wife suggested he show his boss the cat drawings.

    His efforts were snubbed until several years later when the editor of the Illustrated London News discovered them gathering dust in a drawer.

    He suggested that Wain draw a double-page illustration for a festive edition of the magazine showing a cats’ Christmas party. Wain responded with a picture containing more than 100 cats.

    It might have seemed a Herculean task but Wain could draw with either hand with equal deftness and often amused his fellow workers by drawing with both at the same time.

    The illustration was a huge success and he spent the next 15 years drawing up to 1,500 cats a year for newspapers and periodicals. His cats played across nursery walls of the world and appeared on postcards, posters and playing cards.

    They played golf, drove cars and went fishing and reflected the various fads and fashions of their owners. When Europe went to war in 1914 the cats donned khaki and nursing uniforms.

    The author H.G Wells said: ‘He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. Any British cats that don’t look and live like Louis Wain cats should be ashamed of themselves.”

    Louis won a place in the hearts of a nation of animal lovers and suddenly found himself regarded as a world authority on felines. He was elected President of the National Cat Club, attended jamborees and fetes and was often quoted on the subject.

    His success spread to America where he was on the verge of pioneering the film cartoon about a character called Pussyfoot.

    Pussyfoot was later acknowledged as an inspiration for Felix the Cat and several Walt Disney characters.

    Unfortunately, Wain was hit by a bus and seriously hurt just before he could sign a film contract and spent several weeks in hospital.

    It marked a turning point in the artist’s fortunes.

    He had never recovered from death of his beloved wife Emily and a series of bad investments and bad luck – a ship transporting a container full of his china cats was torpedoed and sunk during the war – left him with little money.

    His mental health began to unravel.

    Wain had always been a generous man lending freely and rarely quibbling over the cost of commissions. He didn’t want to trouble his friends with his problems and stopped visiting his old haunts to avoid them.

    He became a recluse preferring the company of his 17 cats. His mental condition worsened and Wain was committed to Middlesex County Asylum suffering from schizophrenia.

    Hardly anyone realised what had happened to the reclusive genius until a journalist recognised him during an unrelated visit.

    A number of public figures including Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald and H.G Wells launched a public appeal and Wain was transferred to a hospital where he had a private room and could continue painting.

    His illness was mirrored in a series of cat paintings that become progressively more abstract as his grasp on reality loosened.

    The colours became increasingly vivid, the images blurring and disintegrating into a vortex of kaleidoscopic patterns during the worst bouts of his illness.

    The paintings are today regarded as some of the most important and graphic representations of mental illness ever captured by an artist,

    Louis Wain died in Bethlam Hospital in 1939.

    If you happen visit his final resting place in St Mary’s Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, tread quietly. Local legend says that, for years, a cat was seen playing by the graveside of its master.

     

     

  • Coin collector, Harrow People

    Coin collector, Harrow People

    Rex Edwards is never short of loose change.

    The Stanmore coin collector, who is president of Harrow Coin Club, has amassed an impressive collection during the past 30 years.

    The club is one of the oldest numismatic societies in the country and is somewhere that enthusiasts can exchange coins and listen to guest speakers extolling the benefits of anything from metal detecting to Japanese military currency.

    So what’s the attraction of putting your hand in your pocket for money that has lost its value?

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    “Coins have a way of reflecting significant times and events,” says the retired civil engineer who spent much of his career in far-flung parts of the world like Papua New Guinea and Brazil.

    “It’s a fascinating subject. Once you start reading about the history surrounding a coin, one thing leads to another.”

    Rex’s globe trotting career has allowed him to build an extensive collection of several thousand coins along with paper money and tokens.

    His oldest coin dates back to the reign of Alfred the Great more than 1,000 years ago when Britain’s shores were under siege from Viking raiders.

    Surprisingly, older currency is not as rare or expensive as you might imagine. And much of that is down to the work of metal detector enthusiasts.

    A silver drachma from the reign of Alexander the Great can cost as little as £30, while a silver denarius from one of the early Roman emperors can cost just £15.

    Not that some coins don’t cost a pretty penny.

    The most expensive tend to be limited issues that never make it into public circulation such as a 1933 American double eagle, which sold at auction for £4.1m.

    Nearly half-a-million were produced during the height of the Depression but a dispute over the design led to them being scrapped and melted down.

    US Treasury officers later discovered that ten of the coins had disappeared. Nine were recovered but the tenth eluded their grasp and later turned up in a private collection owned by the King of Egypt.

    It disappeared again in the mid-1950s before resurfacing in 1996 when a British coin dealer attempted to sell it to Government undercover agents in New York.

    Things are decidedly less racy at Harrow Coin Club but Rex puts his monetary talents to good use by helping sell coin collections donated to local charities.

    He said: “I usually manage to raise about £10,000 a year on their behalf. The collections are often donated when someone dies and no-one else in the family is interested in the hobby.”

    Harrow Coin Club meets bi-monthly throughout the year except in July and August. Anyone with an interest is welcome to attend. For details, ring Rex Edwards on 020 8952 8765.

    This article appeared in Harrow People and the Harrow Times in 2008.

     

  • Chef, Kent Messenger

    Chef, Kent Messenger

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  • CCG boss, The Guardian

    CCG boss, The Guardian

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  • Women GPs, The Guardian

    Women GPs, The Guardian

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  • Dementia – Independent

    Dementia – Independent

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  • Personality Disorders, The Independent

    Personality Disorders, The Independent

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  • Woods, The Independent

    Woods, The Independent

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  • Forensic Nursing, The Independnent

    Forensic Nursing, The Independnent

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  • Mental health, The Independent

    Mental health, The Independent

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  • Meditation, The Independent

    Meditation, The Independent

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  • Mental illness – Independent

    Mental illness – Independent

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  • Pharmacies, GP

    Pharmacies, GP

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  • Young GPs, GP

    Young GPs, GP

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  • NHS and private sector – GP Magazine

    NHS and private sector – GP Magazine

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