Eight proposals for tackling the climate emergency have been unanimously agreed by London Councils’ Leaders Committee.

The Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland will benefit from investment of up to £50 million as part of the Islands Growth Deal.

Government plans to boost levels of walking and cycling in the UK post-coronavirus are under threat from a minority of objectors.

MPs have stressed that the government has consistently failed to recognise the exact scale of challenge facing culture, sport and tourism.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has said that the coronavirus crisis presents the biggest threat to UK's cultural infrastructure, institutions and workforce in a generation. However, the government has been ‘too slow’ to respond to the needs of the cultural and sporting sectors, with many organisations facing an ‘existential threat’ to their survival.

Sadiq Khan has launched the first online cycle training course for Londoners to give more people the confidence to start cycling.

Audit Wales has found that the public sector was spending up to £210 million reacting to, rather than preventing, rough sleeping.

The Public Accounts Committee has labelled the government's failure to plan for the economic impact of a pandemic as ‘astonishing’.

The government has said that care home residents in England can begin to be reunited with one of their loved ones.
Visits will resume in care homes once local authorities and local public health directors say it is safe. The government is publishing new guidance which is expected to say that residents will be limited to seeing the same one visitor, where possible.

The impact of coronavirus on people from minority ethnic groups has been linked to air pollution and overcrowded housing.

Eight directors of public health from the north-west of England have written to Boris Johnson calling for any anti-coronavirus obesity plan.
The Prime Minister is expected to announce a new strategy to get the nation lighter and fitter, triggered by his own encounter with coronavirus. However, public health officials want any anti-coronavirus obesity plan to more importantly address the underlying causes of unhealthy weight, from poverty to the easy availability of junk food.