'Make pupils walk'
CAR exclusion zones should be set up around schools to make families walk as part of a bid to tackle obesity and climate change, a report suggested today.
Banning vehicles from the vicinity of schools could help reverse the dramatic decline in walking seen in the UK in recent decades, the Institute for European Environmental Policy said.
Currently 38pc of all journeys under two miles, which could be covered by up to 30 minutes brisk walking, are taken by car, adding to the twin crises of obesity and climate change, the report warned. If a typical British adult were to walk just one hour more a week it would prevent them gaining two stones over a decade.