LOST: email account, one previous owner

If anybody out there has been expecting an email from me recently and received no word, no sign, no smoke signal etc, my apologies as my primary email account - joelmerriner@hotmail.com has recently ceased to be. Several months ago the chaps at hotmail informed me the account had been compromised(?) and despite quite a few attempts by me to retrieve it they have as of last week blasted the account into deep space, along with all my contacts, addresses, FBI passwords and such like. If you want to contact me, or think I should have contacted you please email me at my new address - joelmerriner@hotmail.co.uk 
Sorry again, that'll teach me to leave 4000 undeleted emails in my inbox.