PEOPLE are being urged to take up free health checks at their local GP surgery.

The county council has launched a new campaign called ‘Stay Healthy for Those You Love’.

It is aimed at people aged between 40 and 74.

Posters featuring parents and grandparents with their families will be displayed on billboards, buses, football grounds, at train and bus stations, and doctors' surgeries.

The campaign will encourage people to get a health check when invited by their GP.

And even if they don't feel they need to do it for themselves, to do it for those they love.