Rate of suicidal thoughts among pregnant women and new mothers has TRIPLED in the last decade

Rate of suicidal thoughts among pregnant women and new mothers has TRIPLED and the rate of self-harm has doubled in the last decade Researchers looked at more than 595,000 women in the year before and after they gave birth from 2006 to 2017 Diagnoses of suicidality – meaning thoughts, plans and attempts – tripled from … Read more

Two drunk mothers are arrested after they took their children swimming in the sea at night

Two drunk mothers are arrested for neglect after they had to be rescued when they took their children swimming in the sea at night A delivery driver raised the alarm after he heard someone ‘in distress in the sea’ Police and coastguards head to Caswell Bay, near Swansea, to find all six on beach The … Read more

HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ director searches for his mother’s killer in new docuseries

HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ is a deeply intimate docuseries directed by Madison Hamburg, who tries to investigate his mother’s murder and find her killer a decade after her death. Madison Hamburg was 18 years old when he got the call from his sister: Their mother had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death outside her … Read more

HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ director searches for his mother’s killer in new docuseries

HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ is a deeply intimate docuseries directed by Madison Hamburg, who tries to investigate his mother’s murder and find her killer a decade after her death. Madison Hamburg was 18 years old when he got the call from his sister: Their mother had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death outside her … Read more

Des O’Connor became one of Britain’s best loved performers despite his mother’s saying he couldn’t 

What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire.  A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more

My mother’s passion and courage has made me the woman I am: MARINA WHEELER

The question was a pressing one, more insistent as the years passed and my mother grew older and frailer. She was Indian and my late father, English, but what was I? Each time someone asked where I was from, thinking I looked ‘foreign’ because of my olive skin and dark hair, it niggled. It never … Read more

My mother’s passion and courage has made me the woman I am: MARINA WHEELER

The question was a pressing one, more insistent as the years passed and my mother grew older and frailer. She was Indian and my late father, English, but what was I? Each time someone asked where I was from, thinking I looked ‘foreign’ because of my olive skin and dark hair, it niggled. It never … Read more

Des O’Connor became one of Britain’s best loved performers despite his mother’s saying he couldn’t 

What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire.  A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more