The number of people in the Lakes district who have taken their own life has more than doubled over the past year.
The annual provisional suicide statistics released today show than in the year to the end of June 2016, 21 people in the Lakes area died by suicide in the year to the end of June 2016.
It is up from 10 in the 2014/2015 year and is the highest number since the 2010/2011 year when 23 people died by suicide.
Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall said nationally 579 people died by suicide in the 2015/16 year.
It is the highest number of suicide deaths since the provisional statistics were first recorded for the 2007/08 year, and follows last year's total of 564, which was then the highest total.