COMEDIENNE Jo Brand is coming to Cardiff - on a mission to find Britain's best young speaker. A new BBC programme called The Speaker is being filmed on Sunday at The National Museum.

A NEW pounds 70 million mental health centre was opened in Birmingham by Health Secretary Alan Johnson and comedian Jo Brand, a former psychiatric nurse.

A NEW pounds 70 million mental health centre has been opened by Health Secretary Alan Johnson and comedian Jo Brand. The 137-bed UK Centre for Mental Health in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust said.

By Peter Grant FORMER psychiatric nurse Jo Brand revisits her old haunts at St Mary's Bethlem Hospital (better known as Bedlam) to find out where the likes of terms such as moron, imbecile, cretin and idiot came from.