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.

UK Research and Innovation has awarded £3 million to support six research networks that will investigate solutions to air pollution.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) states in its Clean Air Strategy that poor air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK. Each year, air pollution accounts for around 40,000 premature deaths.

Campaigners have said that the government must ensure homeowners receive high quality improvements under its new energy efficiency scheme.

The Scottish Government is investing £50 million across the Falkirk region as part of the Falkirk Growth Deal.

Research claims that the roll-out of Universal Credit is leading to a growing number of council tenants falling behind on rent payments.

Peter Soulsby has again written to the government urging them to provide more support to local businesses in Leicester.

Birmingham City Council has published its Birmingham Bus Statement, supporting buses as the UK recovers from coronavirus.

Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called for the urgent nationalisation of care services in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Throwing his weight behind growing cross-party calls to establish a national social care service, McDonnell believes that fixing Britain’s long-running crisis in social care should be a top priority of government as coronavirus exposes severe frailties in the system.

High street shopping units left empty by the collapse of retail businesses should be converted into hundreds of thousands of new homes.