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Welcome to Beyond Today with me, Tina Dehealy, a space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today, what happened to the Lost Boys of Lanarkshire?

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK. Scotland has the highest

suicide rate in Britain and last year data showed that the number of deaths had increased by 15%.

Chris Clement's and Callum Macai looked into the figures for BBC Scotland's

disclosure programme. They travelled to Lancashire in South Central Scotland

where they both grew up. It was there that they discovered Motherwell Thistle, an amateur

football club that's been scarred by suicide. Since 2017 four young men

connected to the club have killed themselves. Through the pain of their loss the club has found a way to celebrate their lives.

We phoned Chris and Callum in Glasgow to find out more.

Mother Whale is pretty much in deepest, darkest Lancashire.

It's probably in the sort of outer limit of what you would call Greater Glasgow.

It's a post-industrial town.

Its identity was all wrapped up in the Ravenscrigge Steelworks that were there for a number of decades.

They closed down in the early 90s, which caused a lot of economic hardship in both

mother-woll and the surrounding towns such as Wishaw and it's one of these places

that almost runs into other towns in urban Lancashire.

There's no real sense of where it begins and ends you pass it on the

mate motorway and you sort of think well I wonder what that place is like.

Yeah mother will since they can appear that Chris was talking about there in terms of the

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