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Twin sisters created their own language and refused to speak to anyone else. Then doctors separated them, and the result was a disaster

The "cure" turned out to be more traumatic than the problem itself.

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Report on failings in Calocane’s care should be watershed moment, charity warns

Marjorie Wallace, boss of mental health charity Sane, said the publication of the review in Valdo Calocane’s care ‘should act as a watershed moment’.

Evening Standard

Health leaders hail Labour’s plans to phase out smoking as ‘gamechanging’

Modernisation of mental health laws also among raft of bills experts say will improve health of future generations

The Guardian - UK

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Thousands of mental health patients readmitted within a month in England

Experts say being discharged prematurely can be ‘disastrous’, setting back chances of full recovery

The Guardian - UK

Concerns mental health ‘fallen off Government’s radar’ ahead of King’s Speech

One charity called on the Prime Minister to ‘take his final chance to deliver a safer, more humane Mental Health Act’.

The Independent UK

Tragic silent twins who made up secret language before being locked away in Broadmoor

June and Jennifer Gibbons became known as the 'Silent Twins' after developing a 'secret language' which meant they only spoke to each others and their dolls, isolating themselves from everyone else

Daily Mirror

The Silent Twins review – intense tale of inseparable sisters

Perfectly mirrored performances from Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance distinguish Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s stylistically bold drama based on a true story

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The incredible and tragic story behind the new Silent Twins film about sisters from Wales and starring Letitia Wright

The story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, who grew up in a small, Welsh town, has been made into a film

Wales Online

The drugs don’t work (and other mental health myths)

Our attitudes to mental health are changing but much of the stigma that surrounds conditions such as schizophrenia remains – along with some enduring and often damaging untruths

The Guardian - UK

'Silent Twins' who only spoke to each other believed 'one had to die so other could live'

June and Jennifer Gibbons cut themselves off from other people from a young age and became known as the "Silent Twins" - until one sister met an untimely and unexplained death

Daily Mirror

The Silent Twins review – powerful story of Welsh sisters in a world of their own

Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs this well-acted, disturbing drama about June and Jennifer Gibbons, whose shared isolation ended in criminal acts

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