Headlines asserting that hospital admissions attributable to alcohol have doubled since 2004 to over a million a year could soon be just a nasty memory.

Straight Statistics frequently focuses on statistical claims that are too bad to be true – but today there’s one that’s almost too good to be true.

English children aren’t getting any thinner – but neither are they getting any fatter. That’s the message from the latest results from the National Child Measurement Programme.