A WINEMAKER struck by a failing crop turned to DIY wine kits to produce his special vintages, writes Andrew Buncombe. Ted Jeffries also soaked the labels off bottles of cider, replacing them with "home produced" labels. The charity Mind, which is leading the campaign, said it hopes to make people confront the realities of the illness.Mental patients failing to take their medication is the principal factor in 60 per cent of killings carried out by care in the community patients, the Zito Trust said yesterday in a report that looked at 35 inquiries into homicides by the mentally ill since 1992.. A poster by Trevor Beattie's GGT agency poses the question: "Nigger, wop, coon, chink, yid, paki, honky, kraut, wog - unacceptable racial abuse? Loony, mong, nutter, psycho moron, div - acceptable forms of mental abuse?" Mr Beattie said: "These words, unfortunately, are in common usage "What I've done is try to crystallise .. a complex issue and put it starkly. We've run up 50 posters and we'll put them up wherever we're allowed to." One in four people is affected by mental illness; a World Health Organisation report says that by 2020 more people will suffer from mental than physical ailments.
MENTAL-HEALTH campaigners yesterday launched a hard-hitting campaign to improve the way society and the media treat the mentally ill, writes Glenda Cooper. It contrasts racial abuse with words used to categorise those with mental problems. "I thought this was the place to get quality information from quickly."Michael Mansfield QC, counsel for the Lawrence family, said the inquiry would hear that the principal murder suspects had all moved around between each other's houses that night.Cross-examined by Jeffrey Yearwood, counsel for the Commission for Racial Equality, Insp Groves - who has agreed that he often uses the word "coloured" to describe black people - said he did not believe that the term was offensive."Stephen was black, Stephen was coloured, there's no distinction," said Insp Groves, a former racial incidents officer in Stepney, an area of east London with a large ethnic minority population.The inquiry was adjourned until Monday.. I can't sleep for anxiety and sometimes cry at the prospect of trying to get the hang of it.I don't know where to begin.
I get different advice from everyone, using words I don't understand. My son's thrilled at the idea and says I'll be able to get on the net and communicate with people all round the world But I don't want to I know other people have phobias about new technology. Can any of your readers give me advice on how to overcome the terror I feel?- Julie. CHARLES DARWIN has a clone. He is the whiskery head of museums collection and interior decoration at English Heritage. Julian Bryant, 40 - the same age as Darwin when he wrote On the Origin of Species - has spent two years restoring Darwin's workplace and family house, Down House, on the fringes of south-east London It opens to the public next week.