World Suicide Prevention Day: Manchester must unite to tackle mental health, urges uni professor
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 identified as city ‘at risk’ of suicide after WHO reveals someone takes their own life every 40 seconds
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.
Atherton teen girl may have taken fatal insulin overdose ‘to lose weight’, inquest hears
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.
Tragic Hyde mum triples cash target in aid of charity who helped her survive ‘darkest days’ after daughter’s suicide
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.
Broken-hearted Manchester college tutor jumps to death only weeks after begging to be taken to euthanasia clinic
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’.
Robin Williams remembered: Dead Poets Society screens at Victoria Warehouse for mental health charity
Secret Cinema has partnered with mental health charity Mind to screen the movie at Victoria Warehouse, with all proceeds going towards the charity.
Robin Williams’ suicide tells us ‘we need to talk about mental health’, warns Manchester 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.
Robin Williams tributes: Manchester comics join global outpouring to ensure his comedy lives on
Mancunian Jason Manford has been leading tributes to actor and comedy legend Robin Williams who died last night of an apparent suicide.
Chetham’s music school sex abuse victim took overdose week after trial but it was NOT suicide, rules coroner
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.
Doctors WILL be legally free to issue ‘right to die’ drugs – but not to aid death, claims Manchester Uni professor
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.
‘Sans Papiers’ migrants face self-harm, suicide and public hostility, claims Manchester Uni study
Undocumented UK migrants face self-harm, suicide, ill-health and hostility from the general public, claims a new study.