An event to raise awareness of and funds for the devastating floods in Pakistan is being held in Bath next month.

The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution has organised the afternoon of speakers for Sunday, September 12 between 2pm and 5pm.

Organisers are looking for anyone with direct experience or family connections to the floods – which have affected more than 17 million people – to share their thoughts at the event.

Anyone willing to do so can contact Bob Draper on 07985 204130.

The event will take place at the Bath Society Meeting Rooms at Green Park Station and speakers already confirmed include Dr Bharat Pankahania, a consultant in communicable disease control who has experience of working in disaster areas, and Faheem Khan from Bristol University who is a Pakistani national and worked for the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Islamabad.

Research involving the University of Bath has underlined the risk of cannabis users developing mental health problems.

Experts at the Claverton Down campus say their research might be significant for doctors and nurses who treat large numbers of students.

Using cannabis has been related to psychotic experiences in the general population but few studies have focussed on the student population despite its traditional high levels of cannabis use.

Thomas Richardson from the Mental Health Research and Development Unit of the university's Department for Health, worked with colleagues in Dublin, to ask 334 undergraduate students in the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand to complete a questionnaire about their use of cannabis and any psychotic symptoms.

Mr Richardson said: "I must stress the limitations of this research, but nonetheless these findings are important as undergraduate students as a population have very high levels of cannabis use. This research suggests that those who use cannabis are more likely to have psychotic experiences, which in the long run may increase the risk of developing a serious mental health problem."