in caring for these young people have made a significant changes since their deaths. the coroner is calling on the government for more funding to avoid more lives being at risk. listen adam, bbc news. lucinda adam, bbc news. we contacted the department of health about those coroner s findings. they say they are providing an additional £2.3 billion pounds a year for mental health services so that 345,000 more children can access support. they also say this includes investment so that all areas have suicide prevention plans, and that money has been invested in response to the pandemic to expand children s mental health services. that s the situation in one part of the country, but what mental health support is available elsewhere? joining us now is sophie corlett from the mental health charity mind. we heard the coroner s report said local mental health services were overwhelmed and early intervention didn t happen, some pretty explicit
because now in ukraine, they consider me a traitor. as we say goodbye to her, anna tries to give us her beloved red flag. i don t want any trouble, she says, i don t want people to ever use it against me. sofia bettiza, bbc news, kharviv. for the next few minutes or so, we will be focusing on the issue of loneliness during what is loneliness awareness week. this is as new government research reveals that young people are particularly at risk of chronic loneliness. so what are we takling about? mental health charity mind says everyone s experience of loneliness will be different but a common definition is the feeling when our need for rewarding social contact and relationships is not met. the campaign to end loneliness say 45% of adults in england
as happy as can be. what an amazing thing to do! remarkable story, always full of respect when you hear about people making those decisions, transplants. and it came as quite a surprise. a year ago phil hayward set out to run ten kilometres a day for charity. he s finally completed his epic challenge raising over £15,000 for the mental health charity mind. but he didn tjust run the distance he crawled, went barefoot and even borrowed his girlfriend s high heels, as samantha nanda reports. ten kilometres a day for 366 days with no days off. phil has run over 2270 miles, gone through six pairs of trainers and countless blisters during his fundraising challenge. and to keep it interesting, he ran
could ever even imagine. well, joining me now to discuss all this is helen richardson walsh, former team gb hockey gold medallist nelly coach and performance psychologist. i am also joined by professor steve peters, sports psychiatrist to elite athletes and author of the chimp paradox and also the chief executive of the mental health charity mind. thank you to all three of you for joining us. helen, iwould thank you to all three of you for joining us. helen, i would like to start with you. tell us about your experiences as a player. whether some days when you thought i might be physically fit but mentally i just cannot go on? be physically fit but mentally i just cannot go on? yeah, i was an athlete who just cannot go on? yeah, i was an athlete who has just cannot go on? yeah, i was an athlete who has experienced - just cannot go on? yeah, i was an athlete who has experienced the l athlete who has experienced the struggles with my own mental health. i ve also been quite vocal abou
for them in the kind of afghanistan which emerges. what has happened on the battlefield has emboldened the taliban and they ve been clarifying their ideas about afghanistan s political future, and it is one in which they dominate and it s a very different kind of political order than the one now in the islamic republic of afghanistan, so there s a sense of urgency here and if these talks make progress this weekend, hope they can have another round in the coming weeks before that window to actually negotiate an end to the war, rather than fight to the end is not lost. as england prepares to lift remaining coronavirus restrictions, there are calls for greater mental health support to continue for people with anxiety as we emerge from lockdown. the mental health charity mind says the mental health consequences of coronavirus require an immediate and long term commitment from government.