Health chiefs are battling to stop a new takeaway opening in Britain's fattest town.

Eighty per cent of the residents of Ebbw Vale in South Wales are classed as obese from living on high calorie takeaways, a report earlier this year found.

A whopping 73 per cent of all restaurants in the Welsh valleys town are takeaways - and some locals are known for eating fast food three times a day.

The new takeaway is being planned for the tough former steel town, which already has 15 kebab shops and only one green grocer.

There are also pizza parlours, traditional fish and chips, Indian and Chinese restaurants scattered across the town, where 14,500 people were employed by the steel industry in the 1960s.