Sylvia Plath’s Son Is Dead

THE Times leads with news that “Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide”.

Jade Goody is dead. Natasha Richardson is dead. And David Prowse is looking in pretty good shape. Anorak’s CCN (Celebrity Cancer News) alert hasn‘t beeped for a full three hours. What to do..?

The Times scurries though the news wires, pass the war in Iraq, pass the war in Afghanistan, pass the research on how to tell your “brain sex” and comes up trumps:

The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Alaska after battling against depression for some time, his sister Frieda said yesterday.

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Posted: 23rd, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)