British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS), the new national organisation tasked with promoting the benefits of sport and physical activity on university and college campuses, launched today, creating the largest higher education sports organisation in Europe.

The Fitness Centre at The University of Nottingham has chosen Cybex cv kit as part of a major rolling replacement programme.

Construction on the £35m Surrey Centre for Sport at the University of Surrey in Guildford will begin in June after a delay, but the project remains on track for an opening in January 2010.

A brand new device which promises to tone the stomach and give the bottom a workout at the same time could be on the market soon.

Fitness First is to launch a special course for its managers looking to furthering their career within the organisation.

A new health and fitness club, called More Energy, has been officially opened at the Brunel University by former running legend Linford Christie.

AV supplier Music Marketing Services has recently completed an upgrade to the audio visual system in the fitness facility at Aberystwyth University.

The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has revealed plans for a legacy partnership with British Swimming and the University of East London (UEL).

A sports centre is set to open on the grounds of Queen Margaret University’s new £100m campus in Edinburgh next month.

Life Fitness has supplied the equipment for the health and fitness facility on Queen Margaret University's new £100m sustainable campus in Edinburgh.

Children in Barrow, Cumbria, have just become the first in the UK to trial a new electronic playground technology.

This year’s IDEA League Sports Event, which was sponsored by Life Fitness, was won by RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Barrow Park in Cumbria has installed new playground equipment in an attempt to make children using the facility active.

The new Vo2 sports and fitness centre has opened at the University of Reading.

The Swim for Health scheme – a programme run by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) in partnership with the Department of Health (DoH), and Hull and East Riding Council – has been officially launched after a year-long pilot.

Witney’s Windrush Leisure has been identified as one of the top performing leisure centres in the UK by the National Benchmarking Service (NBS).

An £8m Physical Education and Sports Science Centre has opened at the University of Bedfordshire’s Polhill campus in Bedford.

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) has awarded the title of Fitness Educator of the Year to Len Kravitz PhD, associate professor of exercise science at the University of New Mexico.

A free-of-charge activity beach has recently opened in Herzlia, Israel, to encourage beachgoers to engage in more physical activity during their leisure time.

The sport and fitness centre at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, will re-open on 15 November following a complete refurbishment by new manager Energy Fitness Professionals.

Kingston University in London has reopened its fitness centre following a £0.5m revamp.

A four-year drive to reduce obesity in the town of Colac in Victoria, Australia, has resulted in 1,800 children weighing less, watching less television, eating more healthily and engaging in more sport.

A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims that physical exercise has little impact on obesity in young children.

On 13 December 2006 the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) will be holding the first ever national conference focusing specifically on the inclusion of disabled people in the fitness industry.

Coventry has been selected as the host city of the 2007 UK School Games.

New research has suggested that children could risk becoming asthmatic and wheezy if they regularly use indoor swimming pools.

As the fitness industry heads towards a potential partnership with both government and businesses to promote a healthy lifestyle, one of the biggest challenges it faces is identifying, attracting and retaining senior management with the skills and experience to take the industry to the next level.

The Lance Armstrong Foundation is set to fund research at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Tennessee, US, to see if regular exercise can alleviate the memory and cognitive problems that many cancer survivors experience following chemotherapy.

Energy Fitness Professionals (EFP) is set to open a new club in July, on the site of Playgolf’s recently opened Northwick Park six-hole golf course in Harrow.

Public Health Minister Caroline Flint has announced the publication of new practical tools for GPs and other health professionals to help patients lose weight and improve their health.