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Today (21 January) to mark Big Adoption Day 2026, charitable social enterprise and leisure operator GLL and the UK’s first children’s charity Coram have announced a new partnership, offering 500 free three-month memberships to Better leisure centres for...

Today (21 January) to mark Big Adoption Day 2026, charitable social enterprise and leisure operator GLL and the UK’s first children’s charity Coram have announced a new partnership, offering 500 free three-month memberships to Better leisure centres for...

Today (21 January) to mark Big Adoption Day 2026, charitable social enterprise and leisure operator GLL and the UK’s first children’s charity Coram have announced a new partnership, offering 500 free three-month memberships to Better leisure centres for...

As a sixty something woman with health issues of my own, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went along to a regular Friday morning healthy swim group session at Bodmin Leisure Centre to meet some of those taking part writes Sue Bradbury. Whatever my...

Businesses in Camborne are making the most of the one hour of free town centre parking being offered by Cornwall Council whilst highway improvements are taking place. The work is part of Camborne Town Deal’s Renew project, a government-funded transport scheme designed...

The Hackwood Community Choir from Smethwick will be at Halesowen Library on Saturday 7 February to celebrate a new year wassail. Wassail is an historic mid-winter tradition aimed at ‘waking up’ cider apple trees by scaring away evil spirits and ensuring a...

Sedgley Library is the venue for a deep dive into Jack the Ripper territory on Saturday 24 January at 1pm when Damian Carter returns to talk about his book The Women of Whitechapel. Focusing on the killer’s victims, the free event proved so popular last year that...

Stourbridge Library is the venue for a free poetry session on 15 January that focuses on trees and woods. Poets Simon Fletcher and Kuli Kohli have collaborated on a new anthology entitled Seeing the Trees and the Woods and published by Offa...

According to new research, nearly a third (28%) of people living in the South West intend to use a health and fitness app to help reach their 2026 fitness goals.   Almost half say the main benefit is the motivation it provides, with 45% citing reminders,...

According to new research, nearly half (46%) of people surveyed in Wales intend to use a health and fitness app to help reach their 2026 fitness goals.   33% say the main benefit is the motivation it provides - citing reminders, progress tracking and goal...

There is plenty of festive fun to be had in Better leisure centres throughout Cornwall this Christmas. Free swim sessions are being offered at Saltash, Bude, Helston, St Ives and Truro to swim school members and up to three members of their family, whilst St Austell...

Having achieved her best international result yet, Seren Wills is scaling dizzy heights in her competitive climbing career. The sixteen-year-old, from Saltash, has just finished fifteenth at the European Lead Cup in Toulouse and now, with a top 30 under 17s ranking in...

Ten-year-old Archie Bunker, from Bude, first got in a swimming pool at the age of three months, could swim widths from the age of four and was awarded his first national lifesaving medal at the age of eight. Now, after coming third in the National Nipper Surf Life...

Triathlete Katie Walker has every reason to feel on top of the world. The 25-year-old trainee accountant from Penzance has just come ninth in the 25-29 age group at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Marbella.  She qualified for the prestigious event after...

A Few Quick Ones present a Christmas Selection Box at Stourbridge Library on Saturday 6 December at 1pm. The free festive entertainment includes four short plays, each with a Christmas heart. Live music will also be provided by a singer songwriter. “There will be...