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What could push a teenager to suicide?

Bullying, bereavement, exam pressure and physical health problems are some of the main factors leading to young people killing themselves.

That is according to the biggest study of suicide among young people in England and it is a problem that is increasing.

Experts at the University of Manchester, investigated the suicides of 130 people under 20 in England between January 2014 and April 2015.

Victoria Derbyshire presenter Norman Smith spoke to Tony Harrison, whose daughter Vicky killed herself in 2010 and Ged Flynn, Chief Executive of Papyrus, a suicide prevention charity.

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