News about Marjorie Wallace

Nearly half a million antidepressant prescriptions are being given to children each year - as experts warn 'we have created a generation of lost and lonely young people'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 31, 2024
Antidepressants should only be used in the most serious situations, according to fears regarding NHS guidelines. Since many children are being offered pills with side effects, charities have suggested that lengthy waiting lists be avoided. According to statistics submitted to Parliament last week, prescriptions in England for those under the age of 18 have increased by 46% since 2015.

Out to teens, 1 million antidepressant prescriptions were distributed

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 13, 2023
According to NHS results, a unprecedented 1.05 million prescriptions for antidepressants were disseminated to teens last year, despite increasing calls for mental health services among young people.

After Meghan Markle's suicidal thoughts, the SANE founder says, "I don't think playing the victim aids."

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 18, 2023
When asked about Meghan Markle (right), she had suicidal thoughts, charity founder and investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace (left) has admitted that she doesn't like 'victimhood.' Although the 80-year-old, who founded mental health charity SANE in 1986, said that although she does not like to'condemn' anyone, she does't have to'respect' people who take victimhood as a profession.' People must find ways of living with whatever disability or handicap you have,' Ms Wallace, who made her name by focusing on the thalidomide crisis, said. Anyone who is wealthy or poor has problems in their lives,' the veteran journalist said. She made the remarks on Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women podcast, where she addressed her work and personal life, which culminated in her becoming a campaigner for people with disabilities and those who are homeless.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: It's business as usual for the King's scandal-hit former fixer Michael Fawcett

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2022
DEN CONFIDENTIAL: His followers would have hoped that, after resigning as the head executive of The Prince's Foundation in the so-called 'cash for honours' scandal, Michael Fawcett would withdraw from commercial service. But Fawcett, 60, who began his career in royal service as a Buckingham Palace footman, is made of sterner stuff. I can tell you that, rather than closing down a store, he and his partner, Debbie, a former Palace housemaid, are determined on retaining and growing their hospitality market. They'll make it through this difficult season.' They've got to - financially speaking - according to a visitor who attended Fawcett's and oversaw as Prince Charles' right-hand man.

Marjorie Wallace, a journalist, discusses how she persuaded The Silent Twins to visit her

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2022
When Marjorie Wallace first wrote about twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, who refused to talk to adults and were sent to Broadmoor after being arrested as juveniles for committing petty crimes as teenagers, she became an investigative journalist on The Sunday Times in 1982. Marjorie said her surviving sister, who she remains close friends with, had been released from the childhood pact that the sisters had made at 29 years on Woman's Hour ahead of the film's unveiling of The Silent Twins. (Pictured from left: the Gibbons twins with Marjorie Wallace. Wallace on Woman's Hour on Tuesday)

At The Silent Twins in New York City, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright are all smiles

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 14, 2022
On the red carpet of Letitia Wright's new film The Silent Twins, Danai Gurira reunited with her. At Metrograph in New York City, the 44-year-old Gurira and the 28-year-old Wright were all smiles. They arrived on the red carpet with Kiska Higgs, President of Acquisitions Focus Features, producers Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Ben Pugh, and director Agnieszka Smoczynska.

Former tennis greats have a LOT of glamorous relatives

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2022
Anna Ermakova, Boris Becker's model, was seen frolicking in Monaco this week, but she is not the only relative of a former tennis great who is living the high life. The offspring of Eighties and Nineties heroes, including Ivan Lendl (centre), Jimmy Connors, and Noah Noah, all live glamorous lives that rival their thousands of social media followers. Emily (right), 31, of John McEnroe, is following in the footsteps of her actress mother Tatum O'Neal and pursuing a career in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Talia Graf (left), the niece of German-born player Steffi Graf, is making a name for herself in the fashion industry.

The Silent Twins' haunting tale: A new film reveals their incredible abilities

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 17, 2022
The day she was admitted to Broadmoor, June Gibbons dressed with care. Jennifer, her twin sister, and she were ecstatic to be admitted to the notorious hospital for the criminally insane. The girls had just pleaded guilty to a five-week jail term in West Wales, with 16 counts of burglary, stealing, and arson. To say that they were troubled teens was merely describing how odd and anti-social they were: the overwhelming majority of people found them scary, even sinister. The twins' relationship to Broadmoor was by no means the only unusual feature of the 19-year-olds: from the start of childhood, they had refused to meet - even with members of their own families. The Silent Twins, as they became known, lived in a strange, turbulent place in which they were completely entwined.