The Manchester Marathon route this weekend will take runners into the centre of Manchester for the first time. Now the second largest in the UK, the ASICS Manchester Marathon is popular thanks to its flat [Read More]
A group of walkers are swapping the rolling hills of the Welsh countryside for Manchester city centre this month. The team from across the north west has signed up to take part in this year’s [Read More]
Not all heroes wear capes….some wear a navy blue uniform and walk the corridors of a children’s hospital. Claire Holden is a specialist nurse practitioner at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, but to eight-year-old spinal patient [Read More]
A vicar who has swapped the pulpit for a bench-press says she has found a new fellowship in her local gym. Lynn Boyle, 60, who is the vicar of St Paul’s CofE in Compstall, Stockport, [Read More]
Life Leisure’s Brinnington Park Leisure Complex will be giving people free access to a series of exercise classes, sports sessions and its gym in March. The special event, running from March 18-24, is being held [Read More]
Totally Local Company has launched a competition to promote the key messages of healthy living and wellbeing to primary school children in Stockport. Working in partnership with Life Leisure, pupils are invited to create a [Read More]
A special poem created by the much-loved Mancunian poet Tony Walsh – aka Longfella – is calling for local people to ‘Do Something’ by taking part in the Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run this May. Event [Read More]
A Stockport couple have opened their ‘dream’ yoga and Pilates studio after converting space in an old mill. Heidi Sanderson and Hugh Ayerst from Heaton Moor have invested a ‘six-figure sum’ into creating the Hot [Read More]
Stockport’s older generation is being encouraged to get active as part of a new scheme to help tackle loneliness and ill-health among the town’s ageing community. There are immeasurable mental and physical health benefits to [Read More]
Fitness experts from Life Leisure in Stockport have been recognised for their expertise and dedication to the industry. Life Leisure, a charitable trust that runs 13 leisure services across Stockport and Cumbria and has a [Read More]
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