The government is to announce that GPs will be encouraged to prescribe cycling as a way for patients to lose weight.
Forming part of a new government strategy to tackle the nation’s obesity crisis, the plans to be revealed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson could also mean GP surgeries participating in bicycle schemes, to make cycling easier and cheaper to take up.

The LGA has warned that social care needs a reset and must not simply revert back to the way it was prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Association of Play Industries has expressed repeated concern about the ongoing decline in public play provision.

Councils across the North East are joining forces to better dispose of rubbish from 1.5 million residents through a potentially £2.1 billion, 40-year project.
Five Tees Valley borough authorities – Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton - as well as Durham County Council and Newcastle City Council want to build a new ‘Energy Recovery Facility’ in the region. It is thought that it would see 450,000 tonnes of waste a year being used to generate electricity, and potentially heating nearby homes and businesses.

14 people exhaust their assets paying for care every day, prompting calls for the Prime Minister to keep his promise to ‘fix social care’.

The Liverpool City Region has published Building Back Better - an ambitious economic recovery plan for the whole of the city region.

The Welsh Government is supporting natural flood management projects across Wales with more than £2million in grant funding.
The funds will help Risk Management Authorities – such as local authorities and Natural Resources Wales - to combat the impacts of climate change as flood risks intensify, using natural methods.

Homes England is backing new design guidance which encourages healthier lifestyles to be planned into new housing developments.

More than half of the country’s parks have had to pull in extra resources to deal with littering and anti-social behaviour issues since lockdown was eased.

The Mayor of London has announced new projects that will improve Londoners’ access to nature and create an even greener city.
Sadiq Khan said that the plans to create two new woodlands, spanning over 84 hectares will be created in Havering and Enfield, will see nearly 140,000 trees planted. The woodlands will be located in London’s Green Belt, the majority of which is not public open space despite making up 22 per cent of the capital’s land area.