With stretched local authorities across the country proposing restrictions on weekly bin collections, Joe Crowley investigates fears that a reduction in collections and smaller household bins has already contributed to increasing problems with littering and fly-tipping.

Takeaways are bucking the trend at a time when many high street businesses are struggling to stay afloat, so what does this mean for the shape of high streets and waistlines? Paul Connolly reports on whether this is just good business or the start of a takeaway takeover.