After the court hearing she said: Depression among young people is increasing

After the court hearing, she said: “Depression among young people is increasing. We need more and better facilities if tragedies like my family has endured become commonplace.”Mrs Lawson, who has also suffered depression, described her daughter as “generous, funny, intelligent and good looking. Family and friends loved her and still do; unfortunately Sarah was mentally ill.”. A wife who divorced her multi-millionaire husband after he cut her monthly allowance to £5,000 was awarded £4.4m yesterday in recognition of her hard work bringing up their children. A wife who divorced her multi-millionaire husband after he cut her monthly allowance to £5,000 was awarded £4.4m yesterday in recognition of her hard work bringing up their children.
In one of Britain’s biggest divorce settlements, the Court of Appeal ruled that Jacqueline Cowan, 62, wife of the bin-liner magnate Michael Cowan, had been treated unfairly when awarded £1,775,000 by a lower court.

The lump sum was raised to £3m, giving Mrs Cowan a total £4.4m share of her husband’s £12m fortune.She had argued she had become “incurably addicted to a lavish lifestyle”, which included £10,000 a year on clothes and jewellery and £36,000 a year on beauty care, entertainment and holidays. But the couple’s 35-year marriage had more humble beginnings. Florence Baron QC, representing Mrs Cowan during the appeal court hearing in March this year, had described how the couple had set up home in a council house in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.Mrs Cowan said that when her first son was born three years later, they were almost on the breadline. By 1985, the success of Mr Cowan’s bin-liner business meant they could afford to buy a home in the Caribbean and spend four months a year there.The marriage ended in 1994 after Mr Cowan, who had moved out of the family home to Hampstead, north London, reduced his wife’s monthly allowance from £8,900 to £5,000.Mrs Cowan’s initial court settlement gave her £1,775,000, their home in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, and a flat in Boca Raton, Florida.But her lawyers described the ruling as sexually discriminatory because a wife and mother could not contribute equally to the business side of a marriage, and raising a family was an equally important part of the couple’s partnership.In a 100-page judgment, Lord Justice Thorpe said the court had “sought to reflect the changing social values”.Mrs Cowan’s solicitor said she was considering an appeal to the House of Lords to increase the award so women could have “parity with men under the law”..

Peter Blake, hero of British Pop Art in the Sixties, has turned to the new generation of young British artists to inject fresh life into the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. Peter Blake, hero of British Pop Art in the Sixties, has turned to the new generation of young British artists to inject fresh life into the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.
Blake, who designed the cover for the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album, has pulled off a coup in persuading Brit artists including Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and the Chapman Brothers, to take part in a show better known for twee prints than cutting-edge chic.As the senior hanger for this year’s exhibition, Blake can invite artists to take part without them going through the formal process of being considered by selection committees. He has picked a clutch of pop stars ­ Sir Paul McCartney, the late Ian Dury, Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood ­ as his guest artists.Defending his choice of the pop stars yesterday, he said they were all artists whose work he respected.”They are musicians who take painting very seriously,” he said. “When I had my show at the National Gallery, Ronnie Wood came along, and I’ve looked at Paul’s work for 20 years, even though he’s been very hesitant to show it until recently.”Blake, one of the key figures in the British Pop Art movement that began in the 1960s, said he had personally asked the artists to take part in the exhibition, which has often been shunned by contemporary artists as too establishment “This is based on friendship and my admiration of them.