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The annual British Social Attitudes survey revealed that rising numbers of respondents are now firmly convinced by the case for departure.

A survey suggests most people are against mothers of young children going out to work.

A snapshot of how the NHS looks in Wales - as it celebrates its 70th anniversary.

"Politicians, journalists, and think tanks frequently try to put a number on just how much welfare recipients receive in benefits – often massaging the figures in the process. But do exaggerated claims about benefit amounts really change anybody’s mind about welfare overall? New research by Carsten Jensen and Anthony Kevins confirms that they indeed do."

The relationship which patients have with their GP matters more to them than surgery opening hours, research suggests.

The overall quality of experience of GP practices was most strongly associated with factors including how well doctors listened to patients and explained treatments, according to a study published in the British Journal of General Practice.

The authors warned that while telephone and video consultations may improve GP access, the changes could have the "unintended consequence" of affecting the quality of the doctor-patient relationship.

They also said improving opening times and making it easier to get an appointment would not necessarily result in "large improvements" in patient satisfaction.

Life has changed so much over the last 50 years that it becomes increasingly difficult to recall what life was like for all of us growing up in the 1960s. My new novel, The Stamp of Nature, offers another reminder of this. It tells the story of what it was like for two young men coming to terms with being gay in an era when this risked ostracism or at worst prosecution and imprisonment. The book also explores how unscrupulous people were able to use gay people’s fear of exposure as a weapon to achieve their ends.

Her dad was an occasional poacher, on the Queen’s land no less. His illicit quarry, salmon, most likely some of the finest in the land given their royal pedigree.

“On occasions he used to get the biggest salmon he could catch, march up to the doctor’s surgery and plonk it down in front of him,” the woman explained. “’This is for you’, he’d say, ‘for looking after my family. I’m very grateful’. That’s how it used to be.”

The doctor accepted the scaly gift, equally grateful, with no questions asked as to the salmon’s slippery origins.

So it was in days gone by.

MPs from different parties urge cross-party approach to solve underfunding of healthcare

Labour increased health spending from 1997-2010 by almost record levels. Satisfaction with the NHS peaked at 70% in 2010. It has since fallen to 57%.

Even though 72% of people don't agree the man should be the 'breadwinner'.

Aneurin Bevan, the Labour health minister who created the NHS 70 years ago this week, said that providing free healthcare funded by general taxation as a right was “the most civilised step any country had ever taken”. To modern ears the phrase sounds quaint, but the service continues to be an object of veneration. The Conservative politician Nigel Lawson once called it the closest thing English people have to a religion.

Bevan resigned from Attlee’s cabinet in 1951, believing that Britain’s postwar claim to “moral leadership of the world” was slipping. But the charges for prescriptions, spectacles and dentistry that were among his reasons for quitting have turned out not to be the precursors to all sorts of other fees. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, prescriptions are once again free. A Conservative prime minister has just promised NHS England a birthday gift of billions of pounds.

Walking and cycling offer a part of a solution to the myriad problems that confront our cities. They offer dividends in terms of cleaner air, inclusivity, ‘liveability’ (making our cities better places to be), congestion reduction, efficient mobility and economic benefits, as well as huge potential health benefits.

By enabling more people to walk and ride a bike for shorter journeys, regardless of gender, age and abilities, towns and cities can make sustainable mobility a real choice for everyone.

A recent survey has found that the UK remains committed to new homes being built locally as the government strives to meet its construction target.

The latest findings published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in the ‘British Social Attitudes survey’ identify that UK residents remain supportive of new housing development across their local areas.

WHERE’S Alex? You know, Alex Salmond, the former leader of the SNP, who led the 2014 referendum campaign. Perhaps he’s been spirited away under a witness protection programme and given a new name. At any rate, his public profile since the publication of the SNP’s new Growth Commission report has been next to non-existent. This may not be unconnected with the fact that the Growth Commission report is being seen by many as a repudiation of the 2013 Independence White Paper, which was his bible.

But he might have cause to be just a little put out, because that optimistic independence prospectus was remarkably successful. Not only was the 2014 referendum result closer than anyone expected, the White Paper arguably formed the basis for the recent remarkable change in Scottish voter opinion on the economic case for independence. The number who believe the Scottish economy would improve after leaving the UK has risen from 26 per cent to 41 per cent since 2014, according to the British Social Attitudes survey. And this has nothing to do with the Growth Commission effect, since the research was conducted before Andrew Wilson’s report was published.