Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Family's tragedy started when brother was found hanged
The brother of a woman who allegedly stepped into a train's pathhas hung himself.
Peter Arthur William Kick, 68, of Mark, took his own life whilethe balance of his mind was disturbed, a coroner recorded.
Sadly, Mr Kick took his life on May 17 - two months before hissister Lynette Rawles, also of Mark, died at Highbridge TrainStation - days before her daughter's wedding.
Mr Kick's widow Patricia told Somerset West coroner Michael Roseon Tuesday last week that he had made a previous attempt on his lifethree years ago with an overdose and slashing his wrists.
She said: "On the morning of May 17 I left home at 8.55am to goto work. Peter was in the …
Liverpool Biennial: Various Venues.
The Liverpool Biennial, now in its fifth edition, may never surpass Tatsurou Bashi's masterstroke, Villa Victoria, from the second edition in 2002. The artist had constructed a temporary hotel room around an imposing piece of nineteenth-century civic statuary dominating one of Liverpool's busiest squares. Guests spent a night in a makeshift bedroom dominated by a colossal bronze Queen Victoria while urban traffic swirled ceaselessly round just outside the room's thin walls, a dislocated island of intimacy and stillness amid a space of maximum exposure.
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If Villa Victoria was all about displacement--the highlight of a sprawling biennial six years …
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