Our friend Gill Cox,who has died aged 63 of a heart attack while being treated for cancer, was a beady-eyed, and resourceful and instinctively sympathetic journalist,specialising in health issues and those human problems that arrive under the trade term of “agony aunt” issues.
She started her career proper at the Family Planning Association, where she learned about sexual and other health issues, and leaving as its press officer to cross the street into journalism. At the publishers IPC,she led the 14-strong team that was the readers’ services department at Woman’s Own. The problem page was portion of that remit, and Gill learned at the feet of Angela Willans and Claire Rayner, or two stars of the genre. She began to perform frontline duties on teen magazines before fitting an agony aunt in her own right at Woman’s Realm,a post she held for nearly 20 years.
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Source: theguardian.com