Bedfordshire news
16 Jun 2026
Freedom Leisure and Ebbsfleet Garden City Trust have opened the £13 million Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion
02 Sep 2025
Work is underway on Central Bedfordshire Council’s £30 million leisure and community centre in Leighton
04 Oct 2024
Award-winning spa brand, Aqua Sana, has rebranded to Aqua Sana Forest Spa to better reflect
13 Jun 2024
Following the release of season three Of Bridgerton, a study reveals its ten most Instagrammable
29 Dec 2023
Universal Studios is assessing the feasibility of opening its first European resort in the UK,
29 Jun 2023
Five-star luxury spa retreat Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa is due to be redeveloped
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
15 Jul 2022
Community benefit society Leisure in the Community (LITC) and 1Life Leisure Management Solutions (1Life) have
21 Jun 2022
The winners of the 13th annual Good Spa Guide Awards were announced last night (20
17 May 2022
A young girl has died following an incident at the David Lloyd gym at Capability
30 Nov 2021
The recently-transformed Bamford Wellness Spa in Gloucestershire has been recognised as the UK’s Best New
17 Sep 2021
Nadine Dorries has replaced Oliver Dowden as the Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture
02 Aug 2021
The Good Spa Guide has unveiled the results of its 11th annual awards this evening
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
18 Jun 2021
The Spa Life UK Convention was developed to support and nurture the spa industry with
15 Jun 2021
Industry event Spa Life UK has announced its 2021 conference at Wyboston Lakes Resort, Bedfordshire,
25 May 2021
Spa Life UK is scheduled for 12-13 July 2021 at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, and will
19 Dec 2020
Gyms and leisure facilities in south-east England are to close from midnight tonight as part
06 Feb 2020
Sport England has revealed the 16 projects which will share £1m worth of funding from
05 Jun 2019
A £20m leisure hub, designed to bring a number of services under one roof, has
28 Sep 2018
Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) has pledged to invest £20.1m in transforming Dunstable Leisure Centre into
02 Jan 2018
Thirteen patas monkeys have died at Woburn Safari Park following a fire at the attraction
10 Aug 2017
Adventure survivalist Bear Grylls and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, UK, have teamed up to
02 Aug 2017
A swimming programme designed for babies and pre-school children will be rolled out across all
07 Jul 2017
Fitness hub The White Studio is adding classes and an extra venue to its schedule
11 Apr 2017
The Queen has officially launched a new £2m (US$2.5m, €2.3m) elephant centre at Whipsnade Zoo
17 Mar 2017
Registered charity Fusion Lifestyle is investing £14m (UA$17.3m, €16.1m) to upgrade facilities across its estate.
14 Nov 2016
A new approach to physical education (PE), based on physical literacy and “fun fitness”, could
22 Oct 2016
Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from the latest
21 Oct 2016
Footballing trio Rio Ferdinand, Mark Noble and Bobby Zamora have launched an innovative urban regeneration
12 Oct 2016
Aqua Sana Woburn Forest, Center Parcs' in-house spa in Bedfordshire, England, will host three pop-up
21 Apr 2016
Luton Town Football Club will apply for planning permission to build its ambitious stadium and
21 Dec 2015
Luton Town Football Club (LTFC) will submit a formal application for its new stadium in
13 Aug 2015
Technology must be placed front and centre in initiatives to get communities moving if the
30 Jun 2015
Virgin Active is teaming up with the University of Bedfordshire and primary school teachers across
13 Mar 2015
Following an epic week at MIPIM, the 25th MIPIM Award winners were announced last night
09 Mar 2015
CVC Capital Partners – one of Europe’s biggest private equity firms – is preparing to
26 Nov 2014
Blackstone – the private equity giant which owns Center Parcs – is believed to have
01 Oct 2014
Plans for a £600m (US$972m, €771.4m) aquarium in Bedfordshire, UK, have fallen through after planning
01 Sep 2014
Nottingham City Council is looking to the heavens to power a number of its leisure
01 Aug 2014
Plans for a new Flitwick Leisure Centre to replace the existing facility were given full
27 Jun 2014
The proposed merger between The Gym Group and Pure Gym has been further delayed, after
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
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health and behaviour change
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
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us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Jamie Clements
The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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New insight from Deloitte and Grant Thornton shows record growth, but the real shift is towards identity and perceived value, revealing opportunities to deepen engagement with members
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CEO, Les Mills“The Les Mills partnership with Hyrox is something I'm personally really excited about”
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