South Ayrshire's tragic toll of suicide at highest rate in over 10 years

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Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThe number of suicides in South Ayrshire are at their highest level in over 10 years.New data, released last week by the National Records of Scotland, shows 19 people in the council area took their own life last year.That’s the highest number recorded since 22 residents died 13 years ago in 2007.Statistics from East Ayrshire also revealed 26 people committed suicide there in 2019.

That was the same number as 2018 and the joint highest recorded since 2001.Tracy Gilmour, Service Manager at Ayr’s mental health charity Three Sixty said: “Mental health needs to be given the same importance as physical health so that more funding becomes available.

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