Schools across Cornwall are being encouraged to sign up to the Daily Mile challenge in a bid to tackle physical inactivity and childhood obesity.

In Cornwall around 27% of children aged four to five are identified as overweight through the National Child Measurement Programme and the current trend is for this figure to increase through the primary school years to around 32% by age 10-11.

To help tackle this, The Daily Mile was started in 2012 by Elaine Wyllie, then head of a large Scottish primary school in Stirling.

Since 2015, The Daily Mile has been adopted by more than 2,000 schools in the UK, and has proved popular with thousands of children, parents and teachers.

Seven schools in Cornwall are already signed up to the Daily Mile Foundation and running a daily mile.

Cornwall Council is encouraging every primary school in Cornwall to introduce The Daily Mile from January 15.