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News round-up: Saturday's star admits depression and Google puts a blind man in their robot car

Linda Debrah | 10:37 UK time, Friday, 30 March 2012


This week another stigma-busting celebrity has put their hand up and admitted they cope with mental health difficulties.

'I felt that I was worthless, that I was ugly' - Six months ago, Frankie Sandford took some time off from The Saturdays for an undisclosed illness.

Speaking to Glamour magazine for their Hey, It's OK campaign, in conjunction with the mental health charity Mind, Sandford said she hopes her honesty about her battle with depression will help others.


Elsewhere in the news

Look, no hands! Google shows off its new self-driving car with blind man in driver's seat - The Mirror

Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson suffers online abuse over train trouble - BBC News

Guernsey disability hustings attracts 50 candidates - BBC News

Jersey sets out care home abuse claim levels - BBC News

Discrimination 'denying care home residents hospital access', study suggests - The Telegraph

ME is often dismissed - but sufferers like Emily Collingridge are dying - The Guardian

'It caused him tremendous depression and anxiety': Lawyer says trauma of Iraq set off Sgt Bales - The Daily Mail

We loved our little Down's baby so much we adopted another - The Daily Mail

Deaf diplomat 'forced to quit' Foreign Office job because bosses refused pay for £500,000 lipreader - The Daily Mail

'Father and son' con blind Manchester woman - BBC News

'Father and son' con blind Manchester woman - BBC News

Thomas Greechan named Jersey sports person of the year - BBC Sport


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