Judy Terry: Temporary road closures give children the chance to play

It also boosts community spirit among adults.

Eddie Hughes: We must make CO detectors mandatory to save lives

This ‘silent killer’ leads to hundreds of hospitalisations every year, and they’re almost entirely preventable with modern technology.

Daniel Hannan: Prejudice against fat people is a snobbery of the Left

The underlying motive for this tradition, though now often dressed up in quasi-medical language, is as much aesthetic as sanitary.

Schools should install defibrillators

There is a scandal of Councils wasting huge Public Health budgets – while refusing to fund modest schemes that would provide great benefits.

Henry Hill: Trimble urges Brokenshire to bypass Sinn Fein and the DUP

Also: Welsh Government want you to tell them how they can tax you into a better person; donor transparency for Ulster; and SNP shielded from EU fine by London.

Rob Lyons: Ten years on from the smoking ban, the Tories could gain by rolling it back

Hundreds if not thousands of pubs have disappeared because the people who used to enjoy a drink and a smoke together have gone elsewhere or stayed at home.

Graham Jones: Community pharmacies can help tackle the care crisis

The Government must do more to unlock the sector’s potential – and the Conservative manifesto is a welcome start.

Nicholas Mazzei: Britain needs to start taking exercise seriously

The social and financial costs of obesity are enormous, and fall disproportionately on the less well-off.

Mark Tovey: The true cost of obesity is less than half the £6 billion that the Government claims

The relief that obese people afford public services by dying early is almost never acknowledged in the health economics literature.

Andrew Allison: Why are councils making it harder to quit smoking?

Staff should be allowed to vape at their desks.

Maggie Throup: Child obesity figures show its time for a rethink

Parents and business need more help from the Government to avert a public health crisis.

Judy Terry: Councils can trumpet the sporting opportunities available in local communities

Rugby, cricket and tennis clubs are looking for new members and fresh talent, but families aren’t necessarily aware of them.

Simon Clark: If May really wants a fairer Britain, she should end the war on smokers

New research reveals that a majority of the public believe anti-smoking measures have already gone far enough or too far.

Sally-Ann Hart: Councils have a duty to fight drug addiction

Support and enforcement must run hand in hand to make our communities safer.

Nicola Blackwood: Our new obesity strategy isn’t nanny state, it’s a sensible plan to make children healthier

This is about encouraging industry to reduce sugar content, improve school sport and empower parents, not abolish individual responsibility.