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Author Siren Knight will be reading extracts from her young adult novel Princess (Apparently) at Kingswinford Library on Saturday 26 September from 1-2pm. She will also chat about her writing journey and answer questions from her audience. Published by...

Local people aged sixty plus in the Reading and Oxfordshire areas are being invited to take part in two active ageing sporting events at Rivermead Leisure Centre in Reading. The first, on Wednesday 30 September, is a timed swim when mixed teams of between 2 to 6...

Free drop-in sessions on how to save a life are being held at Dudley, Gornal, Brierley Hill, Netherton, Stourbridge, Lye, Cradley and Halseowen libraries on Saturday 26 September from 10am to 2pm. Local St John Ambulance volunteers will demonstrate the simple skills...

GLL has been shortlisted in the community-based social enterprise category of this year’s Social Business Wales awards, run by Cwmpas, for the work the leisure provider has been doing to improve local health and wellbeing. With the aim of improving local health and...

This year’s Tykes on Trikes race is being held in Camborne on Sunday 13 September from 9am. There are three categories – Tots on Trikes for those aged up to five years old, Tykes on Trikes for 6–10-year-olds and Twinkling Stars on Trikes for children who prefer a...

Award-winning author Tom Palmer visited Bodmin Leisure Centre during the last week of the summer holidays to talk to the children taking part in a Time2Move session. Tom, who is based in Cornwall, has written more than 70 children’s books – including ‘Football...

Two Year 10 students from Camborne Science and International Academy have earned praise for the work experience placements they carried out this summer. Organised by the town’s Business Improvement District (BID) team, Jade, who is interested in care as a profession,...

Camborne has again been officially accredited as a Fairtrade town. Having first achieved recognition in 2010, Camborne continues its commitment to ethical shopping – thanks in no small part to its long-serving Fairtrade ambassador Brian Terry. The former teacher has...

Badminton player Nikki Welch, 33, from Pensilva, has been invited to apply for the next Special Olympics World Games in Santiago, Chile in 2027. Having recently won gold in the mixed doubles and bronze in the singles and ladies doubles at the Special Olympics GB...

Widely published children and young adults’ author Leila Rasheed will be leading a series of Reading Rounds at Stourbridge Library on 7, 14 and 21 September from 3-5pm. Developed by the Royal Literary Fund (RLF), a Reading Round is a book group that encourages the...

Author Olivia Wakeford will be running a creative writing workshop with children at Llanishen Leisure Centre in Cardiff on 25 August from 3-4pm. Olivia has just won the Wales Book of the Year Award for Children and Young People with her moving and tender book ‘My...

A fun, sporting event for the over sixties is taking place at Bodmin Leisure Centre this September for the second-year running. Providing an opportunity to take part in pickleball, walking cricket, walking netball and walking football, Cornwall’s Senior Club Games is...