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’.

More than 900 children in the North West will wake up homeless on Christmas day this year, a charity has warned.

Manchester’s mental health services have come up trumps after being ranked one of the best in the country by inpatients.

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.

An Alice in Wonderland themed tea party entertained commuters and shoppers in Rochdale whilst highlighting mental health misunderstandings on Friday.

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

Matthew Chappell, 23, from Stockport, says he descended into the dark world of depression following his performance at Edinburgh Fringe festival last year

The South African-born English Test cricketer returned home from the Ashes last year with a ‘stress-related illness’

Dr Isobel Maxwell-Cameron, 25, had just gained a research post at the University of Manchester working in organic chemistry – but reacted badly when laboratory experiments failed and realised the job wasn’t for her

The research was carried out by The University of Manchester’s National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH)

Dr Cliff Arnall devised the formula back in 2005