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 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]
Kids big and small have been making a huge splash at Stockport’s Grand Central after its water slides re-opened. The 50m flumes, which have been extensively renovated after being closed for four years, have been [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]
A trio of fitness experts from Stockport have reached the final of national competitions to find the best and most innovative trainers in the country. Ruth Lynch, who is a head of health, fitness and [Read More]
A widow who became overweight and unhappy following the death of her husband has hailed the community gym that helped transform her life. Lucy Neild, 69, says staff at Life Leisure’s Avondale centre at Stockport [Read More]
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