Anorak News (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
“THE ROOF WHERE TV MARK KILLED HIMSELF,” announces the Star’s front-page headline. The Star is excited to have found the “exact spot” where children’s TV presenter Mark Speight committed suicide. And so it is that another London landmark is unveiled. And who would not want to visit the site, take pictures, perhaps paint a picture as Speight [...]
Times Online - Alan Coren (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Bloody drugs! Sorrow is sorrow, the loss of youth and talent is a blight, and kind words are most fitting for the dead. But all the same, as two families and countless puzzled children's TV viewers mourn the loss of Natasha Collins and Mark Speight, someone has to say it. Damn the drugs, and damn the culture that accepts them with a cheeky wink.
The Social Work Blog (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
by Adam McCulloch The deaths of Mark Speight and Natasha Collins, both talented BBC children’s presenters, has brought a ferocious condemnation of cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy “partying” culture from Libby Purves and elicited one or two interesting comments too....
