{"id":431484,"date":"2025-09-17T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431484\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:46:32","slug":"norwich-baton-of-hope-walk-led-by-those-bereaved-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431484\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich Baton of Hope walk led by those bereaved by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jay Harrison said he had &#8220;never known pain like it&#8221; when his close friend, musician John Brindle, took his own life 13 years ago. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Mr Harrison will be one of 40 people affected by suicide who will carry the &#8220;Baton of Hope&#8221; through Norwich, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/batonofhopeuk.org\/the-tour\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK suicide prevention initiative, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tour has travelled across the country to spark conversations about mental health and encourage people to seek support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norfolkinsight.org.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norfolk Insight, external<\/a> showed there were about 90 suicides each year in Norfolk and Waveney, with men making up three-quarters of those deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Harrison said he had &#8220;never known pain like it&#8221; when his close friend, musician John Brindle, took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-431484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115220420077325604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}