Kemp tells of struggle over friend’s death

ROMAN KEMP said he has found dealing with the death of his friend and colleague Joe Lyons “incredibly hard”.

The radio DJ told Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch he is “getting through” the situation but has found his death difficult to come to terms with.

Kemp has made a documentary about mental health and suicide in young men following his friend’s death, titled Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency.

His friend and Capital Radio colleague Lyons, who was a radio producer, died in August last year.

In the programme, which will be shown at 9pm tomorrow on BBC One, the presenter will investigate what can be done to encourage people to seek help.

NEARLY half of young people would not speak to school staff about their mental health concerns, a survey suggests.

Almost one in four pupils said the main benefit of discussing mental health at school was that it was less difficult than talking to family, according to the report from charity the Anna Freud Centre.

The survey, of 3,298 young people aged between 11 and 19, suggests that one in five saw access to factual information from school and college staff as a key benefit of discussing mental health in school.

More than half of pupils identified an adult in school who they would talk to if they were worried about their mental health or the mental health of another pupil.

But 48 per cent of respondents said they would not speak to anyone in school about their concerns. The younger the children were, the less likely they were to speak to a member of school staff.