The Smile news
10 Apr 2025
Sport for Confidence and Everyone Active have launched a community-focused delivery model in Westminster, London
10 Jul 2023
The Gröna Lund theme park in Stockholm, Sweden has reopened its doors 10 days after
12 Apr 2021
Health clubs, leisure centres and studios in England have opened today (12 April) for the
01 Nov 2019
German fitness group LifeFit has revealed plans to convert five of its Fitness First sites
23 Jul 2019
Germany-based LifeFit Group has added regional operator Smile X to its growing portfolio of fitness
18 Apr 2018
Manchester United and England midfielder Michael Carrick has helped launch a project offering young people
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
15 Mar 2018
The public perception of architects is skewed by a media that portrays a one-dimensional view
17 Nov 2017
A Post-earthquake reconstruction and demonstration project in the city of Zhaotong, China, has been declared
15 Nov 2017
Leisure architecture was a big winner on the opening day (15 November) of the World
17 Jul 2017
Spanish theme park Parque de Atracciones has launched an investigation after two trains collided on
02 Mar 2017
Merlin Entertainments has revealed its end of year results, with £1.43bn (US$1.76bn, €1.66bn) in revenue
14 Nov 2016
Alton Towers has announced that between 60 and 70 jobs are to go as the
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
30 Sep 2016
Merlin Entertainments enjoyed an 11 per cent revenue increase over the past year despite last
27 Sep 2016
Merlin Entertainments has been fined £5m (US$6.5m, €5.7m) after last year’s horrific Smiler crash at
26 Sep 2016
Merlin Entertainments has been to court today for health and safety breaches in relation to
26 Sep 2016
Alton Towers operator Merlin is due in court today for a verdict on the Smiler
06 Sep 2016
Last year’s Smiler accident at Alton Towers has had a notable impact on European theme
02 Aug 2016
Architecture studio Alison Brooks have created a banana-like structure for this September’s London Design Festival,
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
29 Jul 2016
Merlin Entertainments is forecasting a boost in profits as a result of the fall in
26 Apr 2016
Following the guilty plea from Merlin Entertainments related to last year’s Smiler rollercoaster crash at
22 Apr 2016
Alton Towers owner Merlin Entertainments has pleaded guilty in court to breaking health and safety
25 Feb 2016
Merlin Entertainments has released its end of year results, showing generally robust earnings as pre-tax
24 Nov 2015
A rollercoaster crash which seriously injured a number people, including two people who underwent leg
17 Sep 2015
After suggesting that the rollercoaster crash that seriously injured four people in June could affect
11 Sep 2015
Customer service is becoming more and more sophisticated in today’s world, says Mike Wallace, brand
11 Aug 2015
After costing parent company Merlin Entertainments around £50m (US$77.6m, €70m) in profits following the Smiler
27 Jul 2015
Merlin Entertainments has said the rollercoaster crash that seriously injured four people in June could
09 Jun 2015
A 17-year-old-girl – one of five hospitalised after the Smiler crash at Alton Towers –
08 Jun 2015
Alton Towers has reopened six days after a horrific accident on the park’s Smiler left
05 Jun 2015
Following the incident at Alton Towers, which saw a carriage full of people crash into
04 Jun 2015
Merlin Entertainments’ chief executive, Nick Varney, has said Alton Towers will remain closed until the
02 Jun 2015
Four people have been seriously injured in a collision between two carriages on Alton Towers’
04 Nov 2013
Alton Towers' new £18m Smiler rollercoaster was forced to shut down after some of the
11 Mar 2013
Alton Towers Resort has worked with researchers at New Scientist to ensure its news £18m
22 Jun 2009
This summer is set to be Britain's biggest 'staycation', a year when many Britons will
21 Apr 2008
The Edge, the guitarist of Irish rock band U2, has defended the proposed revamp of
11 Jun 2007
With 9,000 10- and 11-year-olds from 300 schools currently taking part in Adopt a School,
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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Pulse Fitness has created a
new health club delivering an
elevated wellness experience
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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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Stephen Price
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
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
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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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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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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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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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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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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Designing multi-functional
spaces can lead to
fewer bottlenecks at
peak times. Julie Cramer
investigates the latest kit
and inspiring installations
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Record market penetration in the UK
fitness sector masks a deeper shift
around consumer engagement, according
to a report from Grant Thornton and
UK Active, as Liz Terry reports
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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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One of the biggest mistakes the fitness industry still makes is advertising almost
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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