{"id":87415,"date":"2025-08-23T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:36:07","slug":"postie-walks-400-miles-from-co-durham-to-cornwall-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87415\/","title":{"rendered":"Postie walks 400 miles from Co Durham to Cornwall for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nikki Gaynor, who is originally from Launceston, Cornwall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn92j070wzdo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began her journey<\/a> on 11 August at the Royal Mail sorting office in Darlington, County Durham, where she now lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Gaynor, who is described as &#8220;The Walking Postie&#8221;, said she was raising awareness after losing her best friend to suicide and wanted to get people talking about their feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I started the journey because in the north-east of England we had the highest suicide rate in the UK, on average six people a week,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-87415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}