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James Wilson has just published his latest work, All the Colours Fade (Neverland Publishing), which is a collection of short prose poetry pieces which take their inspiration from the lyrics of the band The Stone Roses.

Earlier in the year the BBC aired Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture, a three part series in which the host explored the influence of class on culture in Britain during the century between 1911 and 2011.

In March Jeremy Howe (68-75), who is Commissioning Editor, Drama for BBC Radio 4, published Mummydaddy (Pan Macmillan, £7.99), in which he recounts the tragic murder of his wife, Elizabeth, in 1992, the immeasurable impact it had both on him and their two daughters, Jessica and Lucy, who were aged just six and four respectively at the time, and the story his life since that time as a single parent raising two children.

Timothy Hitchens CMG LVO, who was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2012 New Year Honours, has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to Japan.

Dr Nick de Somogyi (1975-81) has recently published Shakespeare on Theatre (Nick Hern Books, £10.99). For ten years de Somogyi has been the sole editor of the Folio series of Shakespeare paperback editions for the celebrated drama publisher Nick Hern; the nineteenth play is forthcoming.

The BBC is busy promoting the second series of Silk, the legal drama starring Rupert Penry-Jones OA and Maxine Peake.

Friends, Old Alleynians and ex-colleagues will be saddened to hear that Dr Steve Hoyle passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning. His last days were spent in St Christopher’s Hospice and he was surrounded by family when he died peacefully

Chris Jordan, who came to Dulwich from Barbados in 2006-07, is a right arm medium-fast bowler who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. Aged 23, he has attracted much interest, having taken 80 wickets in 36 first class games at an average of 35.97, while scoring 862 runs for an average of 22.68.

Jeremy Deller’s most recent project, Sacrilege, is a bouncy new interactive artwork which kicked off the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art on Glasgow Green on Friday 20 April.

The current exhibition in the Wodehouse Library, A Railway Runs Through It, tells the story of how the railways have not only shaped the Dulwich Estate but also the lives of many Alleynians.

Julian Bubb-Humfryes (99-07) was a member of the University of Oxford’s reserve Boat Race crew which won the Isis Goldie race on Saturday 7 April.

OA Matthew Ruttley (02-07) recently received the Judge’s Choice Award at the Wall Street Journal’s Data Transparency Weekend, held over the weekend of 14 & 15 April.

The 'Unbreakables' finished their season with a hard fought victory over Old Swinford Hospital at Twickenham in front of 10,000 vocal spectators.

Congratulations to OAFC’s 1st XV, which won away at Alton RFC by a score of 27-5 on Saturday and in doing so claimed the London 3 South West league title.

OAs may be interested to learn that the College is looking to recruit a Graphic Designer to work within its Marketing Office.

Felix Tran OA (2003-2010) and Harry Bellenberg OA (2004-2011) attended a Duke of Edinburgh Gold award ceremony at St. James’s Palace yesterday morning and were personally congratulated by HRH.

Between 22 February and 13 May the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre will be displaying a ‘mid-career survey’ of the work of renowned contemporary artist Jeremy Deller (77-84).

Nigel Harman (86-89) has won WhatsOnStage.com’s Best Supporting Actor in a Musical award in recognition of his performance as Lord Farquaad in Shrek The Musical, which is being staged at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London’s West End.

Nigel Farage (74-82) returned to Dulwich on Thursday 9 February in order to address a sell-out meeting of the College's Politics Society.

Peter Bazalgette (62-71) has been knighted in the New Years Honours for services to broadcasting. Having begun his career at the BBC in the late 1970s, where he created BBC2’s Food and Drink programme, Sir Peter went on to establish his own production company, Bazal, which created many popular television programmes, including Ready Steady Cook, Ground Force and Changing Rooms.