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.

Mancunians are being encouraged to speak up and save those who may be suffering from mental health problems as part of World Suicide Prevention Day.

Manchester is one of the cities most ‘at risk’ from suicide claims Public Health England as the World Health Organisation revealed that someone takes their own life every 40 seconds.

An Atherton teenage girl who took a fatal overdose of insulin may have been taking the hormone as an aid to lose weight, an inquest heard.

Martina Brincat-Baines, 36, took on the challenge of walking coast to coast from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay for the charity Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS) – whose support she claims saved her life.

Vicar’s daughter Rowena Golton, 45, jumped from the top of a building just hours after hospital staff put her severe bout of suicidal depression down to ‘sleep deprivation’.

Secret Cinema has partnered with mental health charity Mind to screen the movie at Victoria Warehouse, with all proceeds going towards the charity.

In the wake of actor and funny man Robin Williams’ suicide, comedian Jason Manford and a leading Manchester mental health charity are determined to make sure no one suffers in silence.

Mancunian Jason Manford has been leading tributes to actor and comedy legend Robin Williams who died last night of an apparent suicide.

Frances Andrade, 48, was ‘extremely traumatised’ after testifying about abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of her ex-Chetham’s School of Music choirmaster Michael Brewer and his wife Hilary.

A Manchester University professor believes that doctors will one day legally be able to issue drugs to give terminally ill patients the ‘right to die’ – but won’t be allowed to administer them.