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Making the healthy choice the easy choiceBy Caroline Vass, Director of Public Health Every year my annual report offers a chance to reflect honestly on the health of our city and to set out what we must do next together.This year I chose to focus on healthy weight. It is an issue that touches every part of life in Brighton & Hove - from how our children grow, to how we move through the city, to the food we can afford and access.As reported in our citywide health and wellbeing survey Health Counts 2024, just 37% of adults in Brighton & Hove describe themselves as a healthy weight. A further 36% are overweight and 25% are obese. These are not just statistics – they translate into a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, joint problems, and poor mental health for thousands of residents.For children the story is just as concerning. While most of our younger pupils enter primary school at a healthy weight, this reduces by the end of Year 6, and the trend over time is worsening: falling from 73% as a healthy weight in 2016/17 to 70% in 2023/24, with sharper declines in our most deprived neighbourhoods.So, what can we do? The good news is that Brighton & Hove has a strong foundation of good practice, which we can build upon to improve our healthy weight. Our breastfeeding rates are around 20% higher than the national average, thanks to years of partnership work between health visitors, maternity services, and community groups.Many of our early years’ settings are improving their food offers and embedding active play in daily routines. But we know that support must reach everyone, not only those already well connected to services.In the coming year we will place particular emphasis on reaching families in Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Whitehawk, and other parts of the city where inequalities are deepest. By embedding the UNICEF UK’s Baby Friendly approach across all early years’ settings, we can give every child the healthiest possible start in life.Schools are also central to this agenda. Some are already showing what can be achieved through whole-school food policies that cover everything from snacks and lunchboxes to how celebrations are organised.Others are leading the way on promoting active travel and re-designing playgrounds to encourage movement.Our task now is to support every school to meet the same high standard, so that no child misses out on healthy, affordable, sustainable meals and the joy of daily physical activity.Increasing uptake of free school meals is a particularly urgent priority. We know that too many families who are eligible are not applying, often because of stigma or uncertainty. Changing that will make a real difference both to children’s nutrition and to family budgets.We must also look beyond education settings. Workplaces play a huge role in shaping daily habits, and I am encouraged that a number of employers in the city are already championing healthier food choices and encouraging staff to walk, cycle, and move more during the day.But this is still the exception, not the rule. Our ambition is for Brighton & Hove to become a city of “healthy workplaces,” where businesses of every size - from small cafés to our largest institutions - make it easier for staff and customers alike to choose well.We will explore new schemes and provide more practical support, particularly for smaller employers who want to do the right thing but lack the resources to act alone.Perhaps the most visible part of this agenda is our shared environment. Planning policy already limits the density of hot food takeaways in certain areas, but we know that unhealthy outlets are still more concentrated in our most deprived communities.We are mapping advertising of high fat, salt and sugar products across the city, with the aim of reducing exposure, especially for children.Our active travel rates are already among the highest in the country, with around a third of adults walking or cycling three times a week, but there is more to do to make those journeys safe, accessible, and appealing for all ages.The Let’s Get Moving Strategy provides a framework for this, linking up public spaces, schools, and workplaces so that physical activity becomes woven into everyday life rather than an optional extra.The annual report is not the final word but a starting point. Over the coming months my team will work with schools, early years providers, businesses, community organisations and residents themselves to put these recommendations into practice. Success will not be measured in glossy strategies but in whether more of us feel able to eat well, move more, and live free from the health conditions linked to excess weight.Brighton & Hove has always been a city willing to try new things and to lead by example. We can create a city where the healthy choice really is the easy choice, for everyone.
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Are you on Ozempic? I bet you’ve thought about it. It’s the golden ticket. 1.6 million Brits are – or on Wegovy or Mounjaro – at least until Trump spikes the prices. So widespread, the pastry chef at Greggs thinks these drugs are hitting sales of his pasties. And there I thought Rachel Reeves – aka Veruca Salt – was to blame for everything.I ask, because after my holiday in Ukraine and Poland, I could do with a wonder drug to shift the pounds. Ironic because my wife and I spent some of the time in Zakopane – the capital of the Tatra mountains – where it’s hard not to trip over Mountain Warehouse. And it’s not because of the sausage rolls I’d been eating. There was pierogi – meat or potato dumplings – with chunks of pork fat sprinkled on top; bigos – a kind of stew; kielbasa – sausage; herring; schnitzel and potato pancakes. But Ozempic doesn’t just slim you down. It cuts the constant cravings too – for alcohol and tobacco at least. Why hasn’t Wes Streeting ordered us all on it? These drugs could cut the NHS bill by billions. Instead, you have to jump through hoops to get it – figuratively speaking. Typical of an organisation that sees the patient as a cost centre. Yes yes, these drugs don’t help everyone. There are side effects. But losing weight is hard. Hard. As is exercise. Augustus Gloop needed help from Oompa-Loompas. So do I.My holiday in Kyiv felt like a dystopian Roald Dahl novel at times.Every night, there were air raid sirens. And during broad daylight. There you are, shopping in a mall such as Gulliver in downtown Kyiv – imagine a 16-storey skyscraper of shops with great glass elevators – when the siren sounds, the shops shutter and everyone heads to the basement. Not so much to shelter, but to continue to shop in the relative safety of JYSK. And there I’d thought I’d escaped IKEA. That’s retail therapy.But until the small hours of Sunday 7th September, I’d never actually experienced a drone attack. My mother-in-law woke Tetiana and I up at 3am. We could already hear the low buzz of a shahed drone above us. And as it falls, it whines and whines like an angry wasp. The Ukrainian air defences boom boom boom. These drones were close. We huddled under the stairs, the windows left open so any nearby blast wouldn’t break the glass. We sheltered for two hours – eyes fixed on Telegram for updates.But worse was to come. At around 6am, we’re warned of ballistic missiles. There’s a 10- or 15-minute delay before they strike. But there’s no buzz. Just silence. Think Jaws – something’s going to bite – but without the music. Or hiding behind the bathroom door before the axe crashes through. My wife nonchalantly wanders around the house. Why? “You won’t feel a thing if it strikes.” The minutes are ticking down. The silence builds. Is my time up? Now, Kyiv is a big city. Think Birmingham times three. What are the chances you’ll be hit? Almost zero. So why was I afraid? It was my first time, I suppose. And because there is a real chance of death. But what can you do? Three months ago, a block of flats only 100m from my mother-in-law’s house was flattened by a ballistic missile. 9 dead and 63 injured. The children’s teddy bears now left as a memorial. The targets are random. The first missile strikes – we hear the boom in the distance. Then another. We hear three in total. We learn that a mum and her three-month-old child were killed by a Shahed close by. In the end, nearly 7am, we go to bed – my appetite well and truly suppressed. Drone strikes on Ukraine have worsened since Trump started negotiating with Putin. Trump and Willy Wonka – they both live in a world of pure imagination. But you do need imagination. Whereas Starmer just can’t get away, can he? First, it was Ange – the Violet Beauregarde of Labour. Then Mandelson – Arthur Slugworth – sending love letters to Epstein – “I think the world of you” – that would give Barry Manilow a run for his money. Now it’s Trump Starmer needs to entertain. While NHS waiting lists still stand at 7.4m despite massive pay awards; 142,000 jobs have been lost since Reeves became chancellor; and £110bn is being spent on paying the interest on government borrowing – growing like giant blueberry bubble gum. Double the defence budget. Let’s hope we don’t have any drone attacks like Poland. Is there Ozempic for politicians? Something they could pop along with their mandatory sausage roll breakfast – like normal people – to be less sleazy, less obsequious, less hyperbolic. That would turn them into Charlie Bucket. And help Greggs. Alistair McNair is Leader of the Conservatives on Brighton & Hove City Council.
The Brighton store is offering hearty seasonal dishes, sweet treats, and expanded drink options as part of its latest food offering.
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Sarah Ramshaw braved the challenging descent of Peacehaven Cliffs to collect the funds for Rockinghorse Children’s Charity.