A national charity says North Somerset residents are missing out on health checks which could prevent conditions like diabetes, heart disease and kidney failure.

Diabetes UK says the local Primary Care Trust is one of the worst-performing in the UK - with just one-point-six percent of eligible people being given it in 2011/12 ... compared to a national average of nearly fourteen percent.

The Trust says 'considerable improvements have been made' - and the number of checks done since April has increased by fourteen-hundred percent.