Going from "14 dads and 20-something kids" turning up "for beat-box battles and soft play," the group has since grown to 4,000 members.There's the dad who has missed another bed time story because he has to work to pay the bills and feels so guilty about it, or the dad who has spent thousands of pounds fighting an outdated court system just to see his kids," Mr Flanagan said. Then there's the gay dad who has adopted kids and is constantly batting off snide comments because they don't have a mum, or the homeless dad living in temporary accommodation who has got nowhere to take his children.Mental health services in the West have shown "significant improvements" following a surprise watchdog inspection. Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission  made an un announced visit to scrutinise In-patient care and community-based mental health services run by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust  in June 2024. The services, that reach around 1.8 million people in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire, were rated as "good."The CQC said it was "pleased" with the progress made by AWP, after a previous inspection raised concerns that people "weren't receiving safe care and treatment."This month the government in England will launch a consultation for its men's health strategy. The move is long overdue, experts say, with men much more likely to die prematurely than women. . He looked around to see a young man at the window asking for condoms.was on the first floor," he says, recounting the story from a few years ago. "The lad had shimmied up a drainpipe on the outside of the building because he didn't want to go through the reception and ask." The anecdote, in many ways, encapsulates the challenges over men's health – a combination of risk-taking behaviour and a lack of confidence and skills to engage with health services.In the UK men are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs and have high cholesterol and blood pressure.Prof Alan White, who co-founded the Men's Health Forum charity and set up a dedicated men's health centre at Leeds Beckett University, says the issue needs to be taken more seriously.        One of boxing's most shameful chapters will be retold in a new play. Cuthbert Taylor was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1909 and competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.But he was denied the right to fight for the British title because of the colour of his skin and, because his father was of Caribbean heritage, the British Boxing Board of Control,  deemed him "not white enough" to be British.Now his story and that of the boxing's colour bar is being brought to life by director Kev McCurdy in The Fight. Under the colour bar, which ran from 1911 to 1948, boxers had to have been born to two white parents. In a 20-year professional career Cuthbert won 151 bouts, drew 22 and lost 69. The bantamweight and lightweight sold out Liverpool’s Anfield stadium for a drawn fight against US world champion Freddy Miller in aid of the 1935 Gresford Colliery disaster