Locked up for 22 hours a day: Women’s prisons during the pandemic
“Women are forced to prioritise between showering or queuing up to use the communal phone.” This is the reality of
Hospital care for self-harm patients linked to higher risk of death, says Man Uni study
Hospital care for self-harm patients has been linked to a higher risk of death, in particular admission to a psychiatric bed, in a University of Manchester study.
More Greater Mancheseter young people in hospital after self-harm than in rest of UK
Self-harm is putting significantly more young people in hospital in Greater Manchester than in the rest of the country, new figures reveal.
Self-harm spike in Manchester due to recession, says mental health expert
Self-harm rates are increasing in Manchester, shocking new statistics have revealed.
LGBT History Month Q&A: Anna Phylactic opens up on being ‘outed’ when brother showed diary to whole school
To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to actor and ‘shock in a frock’ drag artist Dan Wallace aka Anna Phylactic about his experience of coming out and what progress Manchester still has to make towards equality.
Mental health petition: More kids will DIE if government don’t ‘step up’, claims heartbroken Hyde mum
A heartbroken Hyde mother whose 17-year-old daughter took her own life last year has called on the government to ‘step up’ and tackle mental health issues, warning ‘if they don’t change the law soon then inevitably it’s going to happen again’.