Life Leisure has won two awards for its services to the community and its staff. The charitable trust that manages 12 sports and leisure facilities in and around Stockport and one in Cumbria returned victorious [Read More]
There are less than two weeks to enter the Race for Life events at Tatton Park. This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone – men, women and children – to [Read More]
A social enterprise is teaching students to repair and care for bikes as well as helping charites. Stockport-based CERA Cycloan was set up five years ago by directors Brian and Christine Pendlebury. The business also [Read More]
Runners of all ages and abilities are being urged to get moving in preparation for this year’s BIG Stockport Run. The 10km race, which is organised by Stockport’s Life Leisure, will take place on Sunday, [Read More]
A leisure provider which prides itself on putting the community at its core has been shortlisted for four national awards. Life Leisure, a charitable trust that manages 12 sports and leisure facilities in and around [Read More]
Teenage swimming sensation Holly Hibbott has been selected to compete for Team GB in the World Championships. Holly, 19, who is a double Commonwealth medallist and trains with Life Leisure’s Stockport Metro, earned her place [Read More]
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]
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