Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething has outlined plans to make Wales’ one of the first countries to see obesity rates decline.
The Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales strategy hopes to help deliver healthy settings and environments to allow people of all ages to make healthy choices.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed a package of measures to help people on lower incomes get onto the housing ladder.
First announced during the summer, the government is reviewing a new national model for shared ownership to make it easier for people to buy more of their own home, including allowing them to buy in one per cent increments. Now that this has been confirmed, it is believed that people will now be able to get on the housing ladder with deposits as low as £2,000.

Cambridge City Council has signed up to the Cambridge Plastic Pledge which encourages organisations to reduce single-use plastic usage.

Local investment in Greater Manchester has topped £600 million, according to the region's combined authority.

Referendums that use a preferential ballot system can potentially lead to better public deliberation, new research claims.

One in three councils are using computer algorithms to help make decisions about benefit claims and other welfare issues.

The government should overhaul policies across housing, transport and education to secure the future health of today’s young people.

The latest mortgage data has revealed that the number of first-time buyers getting a mortgage has increased to 35,010.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has revealed a number of active travel projects, totalling £27 million of investment, across Scotland.
The projects, including a new walking and cycling route in the north of Glasgow, the regeneration of Ayr town centre and green infrastructure travel links in Aberdeen, are amongst more than 200 across Scotland receiving a total of £27 million of funding through walking and cycling charity, Sustrans Scotland and Transport Scotland.