Broadcaster George Hook today revealed that he once planned to kill himself by jumping off Dun Laoghaire Pier in Dublin - but backed out at the last minute.

Less people are overdosing on paracetamol since the introduction of a ban on 24 packs in supermarkets.

A police motorcyclist dramatically foiled an attempted suicide today by seizing a man as he tried to leap from a multi-storey building in Belfast.