内容摘要：More than 2,000 workers have already expressed an interest in taking voluntary redundancy, the majority of whom are based at the UK’s largest steelworks in Port Talbot.

More than 2,000 workers have already expressed an interest in taking voluntary redundancy, the majority of whom are based at the UK’s largest steelworks in Port Talbot.

By the third month, he had started walking further, getting up earlier and noticing the world around him open up again, he said.Talking to BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, he described how, two or three years ago, his weight escalated from a "tubby but not unhealthy" 14 stone to about 29 stone.

He said he had been living with his parents before he lost them, which ended up with "my depression spiralling, my weight gaining, and health rapidly deteriorating".The catalyst came on the day he got stuck in the turnstile at Port Vale, he said, describing it as "a powerful, humiliating sort of milestone".Mr Duffield, who lives in Kidderminster, described his next steps as "nothing unremarkable".

Tracking his eating required a brutal honesty, and he shocked himself with his food intake, he said.Giving up alcohol helped in two ways - by giving him some control and mental clarity.

In the second month, he started walking and, because he weighed nearly 30 stone, his weight added to the exercise, even if he just walked to the end of the street and back.

"By month three, I started walking further and further, getting up a bit earlier and noticing the world around me again," he said. "It started to open up.Ms Dodd-Mayne said many pools had faced a "real and significant threat to survival this year" as councils and operators struggled with increased energy and wider costs and difficulties retaining staff.

“Sport England is proud of the role we’ve played in supporting these facilities through this difficult period," she said.Ruth Jones, James Corden and Joanna Page have been spotted filming for the

Corden and Jones, dressed as her character Nessa, were seen with their arms around each other on Barry seafront in south Wales.Earlier on Tuesday morning, Jones was seen in a rickshaw with her co-star Joanna Page, as Stacey, in the back.