Approximately 10% of the UK adult population have or experience tinnitus, a condition which can have a devastating impact on sufferers’ lives, making headlines after Susanna Reid opened up on the issue.

Is there such a thing as a rational suicide? This is the controversial question to be addressed during a debate at Manchester Museum as part of SICK! Festival.

The report, titled ‘Healthy Services and Safer Patients’, is based on nearly 14,000 patient suicides which occurred between 2004 and 2012.

A former St John Ambulance youth volunteer, who was honoured by Princess Anne for her dedication to charity work, was found hanged after she complained of being intimidated by noisy neighbours.

Colour Sergeant Stephen Bardsley, 57,from Moston who saved wounded comrades in battle committed suicide after losing a tragic last fight to cope with the untimely death of his wife.

Laura Pahomova, originally from Latvia, threw herself from Light Boutique Aparthotel in the Northern Quarter back in 2012 after a stalker told her family she was an escort.

A Tameside teenager Cameron Brookes hanged himself in his bedroom after having a minor argument with his mother about the laundry, an inquest heard.

A former Wigan Rugby League player who was planning to marry hanged himself just four days after his bride-to-be broke off their engagement, an inquest heard.

A 15-year-old Salford schoolboy may have accidentally hanged himself with his school bag while swinging in trees for a lark, despite being found with a note in his pocket which said he was ‘fed up’.

A family doctor has been suspended from practicing after a tribunal heard that he told a suicidal patient to “jolly well” kill herself during a row at his surgery.

A family doctor stunned a suicidal patient who was contemplating killing herself by telling her ‘you can go and jolly well do it now’, a medical tribunal heard today in Manchester.