Suicide rate up in Lothians
MORE people killed themselves in 2008 in the Lothians than in any other year since the early 1980s.
Statistics released from ISD Scotland – the country's official gatherer of health figures – showed there were 136 suicides in the area last year.
This is a rise of more than 30 from the year before, and the most since records began in 1982.
It mirrors a gradual rise nationwide, and will cause concern for health chiefs.
The increase coincides with record numbers of people being diagnosed with depression.
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