Four police officers could face criminal charges over the death of a mentally ill church caretaker who was restrained when he was arrested following a disturbance in the street, The Independent has learned.
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'Suicides' after police custody hit nine-year peak, says IPCC
Tuesday 23 July 2013
64 people apparently took own lives within two days of release in 2012/13, up from 39 the previous year
Know your own children? Not well enough
Sunday 21 July 2013
Parents are often wide of the mark when it comes to their youngsters’ fears
Britain's one million young unemployed are depressed, rarely leave the house and are not part of society
Tuesday 16 July 2013
UCU report paints a 'heartbreaking' picture of young people in the UK who fear they will never get a job
MoD confirms more British soldiers commit suicide than are killed in battle
Sunday 14 July 2013
Panorama discover that at least 50 serving and veteran soldiers took their own lives in 2012.
Social care review into Dartmoor family as ex parter charged with assault
Sunday 14 July 2013
Kathrine Hooper's estranged partner has been charged with attacking her three months ago
Kier wins contract to build new Broadmoor
Friday 12 July 2013
The construction company Kier is to build a new £115m high-security home for notorious murderers including the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
Most young men in gangs 'suffer psychiatric illness'
Thursday 11 July 2013
Members are four times more likely to suffer from psychosis than young men who are not, say researchers
Emergency hotline should be set up for depressed footballers at risk of suicide, says PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle
Monday 08 July 2013
PFA and FA to hold urgent talks with Premier League and Football League to improve support for players suffering mental illness
DVD & Blu-ray review: The Village: Series 1, For retail and rental (Entertainment One)
Friday 05 July 2013
The first six hours of a planned 42 telling the story of a Derbyshire village over the 20th century, and, yes, this first series of Peter Moffat’s drama groaned under its ambition.
BBC reporter threw himself under bus after 'cover-up' over harassment allegations he made against colleague
Friday 05 July 2013
Family said BBC managers did too little to help when he contacted them to address the concerns
A third of children in Britain have had suicidal thoughts
Friday 05 July 2013
Shocking figures released to mark the launch of mental-health group and its counselling website
BBC Three to air documentary about Frank Bruno's struggle with depression
Thursday 04 July 2013
Frank Bruno's daughter Rachel will present a documentary about her father's struggle with manic depression.
'Hunger striking' Moors murderer Ian Brady's diet: toast for breakfast and packet soup during the day
Tuesday 25 June 2013
The Moors murderer Ian Brady, who claims to have been on a 14-year hunger strike, makes himself toast for breakfast and regularly cooks soup from packets, a tribunal heard on Monday.
The top ten: Visual clichés
Sunday 23 June 2013
Mark Wallace asked if I could add pictures to my Banned List of clichés, and nominated the first here. Lloyd Bracey, who teaches TV journalists, persuaded me to ban reporters referencing stormy waters, for example, over footage of the sea. But this is different. This is about reaching for the most obvious image with which to illustrate an abstract subject.
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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