Premium health and wellness group, David Lloyd Clubs, is set to open three new UK clubs before the end of the year in London, Essex and Kent.

With an additional bank holiday announced out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II and to observe the state funeral on Monday 19 September, business owners and event operators around the UK are making decisions whether to close, modify opening times or stay open to serve the public’s needs.

St Albans City and District Council has signed a ten-year deal with Sport and Leisure Management (SLM) trading under the brand name Everyone Active.

Parkwood Leisure managing director Glen Hall talks about putting the company on a new path to fitness in recent years, with customers and staff at its heart

The senior management team at Places Leisure discuss commercial diversification and reveal a new launch

Services giant Serco Group has appointed Simon Bailey as the new managing director of its leisure business.

Scottish brand Beat Theory Fitness has opened its first franchise site, offering heart-rate-monitored group interval training to members in London.

Everyone Active has been awarded a 10-year contract to manage leisure centres across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Everyone Active has won the contract to manage and operate leisure centres in Warwick over the next ten years.

Places for People Leisure has a won a 20-year contract to run council-owned fitness facilities in Epping Forest, Essex.

Perfect weather greeted twenty brave skydivers from 1Life leisure management company as they prepared to jump to raise money for British Wheelchair Sport charity WheelPower.

Serco has ditched plans to offload its leisure business, with the services giant reluctant to dispose of another profitable arm amid profit warnings and the recent sale of its lucrative business processing outsourcing (BPO) division.

Services giant Serco’s plans to offload its leisure arm as part of CEO Rupert Soames’ strategy overhaul may be delayed by ‘up to a year’.

Prime Fitness – the largest énergie franchisee in Ireland which controls eight of the chain's 14 clubs there – has entered examinership as it battles to preserve what is left of the Jackie Skelly health club chain.

Sauna and steam room manufacturer DaleSauna has created a luxury thermal spa at a London leisure centre.

Up to 70 UK leisure and sports facilities face an uncertain future after operator Serco announced plans to sell its leisure arm.

Life Fitness’ multi-site contract with Serco has been extended for a further five years under which it will provide fitness equipment across the management company’s entire leisure portfolio.

Construction is well underway on the new £14m (US$22.4m, €17.8m) Abbey Leisure Centre in Barking in east London, complete with a luxury spa.

énergie Fitness is the new operator of Naas Health and Fitness, a 31,000sq ft (2,880sq m) health club in North Kildare, Ireland, which replaces Wilmslow as the largest club in the énergie estate.

énergie Group chair and CEO Jan Spaticchia has hit back at reports in the Irish press about "troubled accounts" for Prime Fitness – the largest énergie franchisee in Ireland which controls eight of its 15 clubs there – saying one piece in particular was a “desk exercise” that didn’t look at the bigger picture of the larger master franchise business in Ireland.

Finalists for the new-look 2014 Flame Awards were announced yesterday afternoon by ukactive CEO David Stalker during a live webinar.

Fitness industry veteran Innes Kerr has been appointed managing director of Prime Fitness, a member company of Abbey Fitness & Wellness, which is rolling out énergie Group brands across Ireland.

Health club franchisor and operator énergie Group has secured a deal with Abbey International Finance that will see up to 30 new centres roll out in Ireland over the next three years as part of an aggressive expansion plan.

Selby District Council will showcase plans for the replacement Abbey Leisure centre complex - which was destroyed by fire last year.

An application has been submitted to Selby District Council, North Yorkshire, for the demolition of fire-damaged Abbey Leisure Centre, so construction can begin on a replacement.

The winners of the Members' Choice Health Club Awards for 2012 have been announced during an awards event at the Hilton Metropole hotel in Birmingham.

Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust (WLCT) has opened temporary fitness facilities in Selby, North Yorkshire, following a fire at the town's Abbey Leisure Centre earlier this year.

Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre in Redditch, Worcestershire, is set to see its energy bill cut radically after work was completed to allow it to utilise waste heat from an adjacent crematorium.

Work on the new £24m Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre in St Albans, Hertfordshire, has reached a milestone after the large wooden beams that will support the roof were installed.

St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) has confirmed that two additional swimming pool lanes will be added as part of the £24m Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre scheme.