Compulsory sex education for primary schools

Government review likely to say children must learn about human body and relationships

Child obesity: Council to ban takeaways near schools

Council plans to ban new takeaways opening within 400 metres of schools, youth centres and parks

Councils are buying into TV chef Jamie Oliver's big ideas, but some people find them hard to swallow. By Helen Pidd

Patrick Barkham The financial crisis is keeping politicians from their beds with rounds of all-night meetings. Is this wise?

Eric Pickles says sorry after quip at Conservative party fringe event

Felicity Lawrence: Our diet today is as much about class as it always has been - and it will take more than Jamie Oliver to change that

Simon Jenkins: The press are idiots to condemn the model for cycling without a helmet. The real villains are over-active traffic managers

Nick Clegg: Labour's centralised NHS is over. Patients must get the treatment they want when they need it – and that means top-up payments

Tim Dowling: Among the more electrifying revelations about Sarah Palin is the mildly disturbing fact that she gets up at 4.30am every day

Catherine Bennett: Even as they preach against the evils of obesity, some Conservatives are not exactly setting a good example