METRO BITES

■ ADS for cosmetic procedures to change a person’s appearance – such as surgery, teeth whitening or skin peels – are to be banned from media that targets under-18s, starting from May next year.

■ A VILLAGE has become the first in Britain to buy its own library, shop and pub. Some 400 residents in Trawden, Lancashire, joined forces to snap up and run the community facilities to save them from closure.

■ A CANCER patient, 86, will tackle 100 hours of cycling in ten days for charity. RAF veteran Eric Ayling, who believes ‘age is just a number’, aims to raise £10,000 for Help for Heroes on a static bike.