A TEENAGER was yesterday found dead in a county hit by a spate of suicides.

THE suicide of Natasha Randall, an apparently happy 17-year-old, dragged the south Wales market town of Bridgend reluctantly into the global media spotlight.

There are no links between the deaths of 14 young people who have been found hanged around one town in just over a year, the local coroner said today.

A teenager tried hanging herself the day after another girl became the latest young person to die in the same community, her mother said today.