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‘Community spaces are being taken away’: campaigners rail at rise of pay-to-play padel courts

Proposals to convert skateparks, children’s play areas and basketball courts have angered residents

The Guardian - UK

Skaters launch campaign to save one of London’s only indoor skateparks

Barking Sporthouse announced on Tuesday that it will close its skatepark and replace it with padel courts

Evening Standard

Gold’s 2026 Rally Has Cracked—Is It Time to Buy the Pullback?

Gold's massive rally has collapsed, but the question remains as to what happens from here. Fortunately, multiple means of building exposure exist.

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If You’re Not Sold On Gold, This ETF Will Make You Twice As Interested In Shorting It

I'm not generally a big proponent of investing in gold. But here's how I would recommend playing the precious metal now.

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‘When I finish my classes, I feel sad’: anger builds over gyms swapping pop classics for cheap covers

The fitness chain Better has replaced musicians’ tracks with cover versions, causing dismay among punters and instructors who say the change is killing the energy

The Guardian - UK

Can Gold Reach Another New High in Q3 2025?

Gold reached another new record peak in Q2 2025, marking the seventh consecutive quarterly high for the precious metal that is the world’s oldest store of value. While the price remains below the Q2 high in August 2025, there is still plenty of time for gold to rise to a…

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Belfast leisure centre workers to take 24-hour strike action

It comes in a dispute over pay.

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Skin is in: as sales of thong bikinis rise, is body confidence also growing?

A Sydney council’s ban on ‘inappropriate’ swimwear stirs a wider debate over complex feelings about women’s bottoms

The Guardian - UK

Library staff in Greenwich to strike in row over pay

Strikes will lead to widespread closures of libraries in the new year

Evening Standard

Young sports stars benefit from GLL bursaries to support their careers

Over 120 sporting stars were recognised at an awards ceremony at Belfast City Hall

Belfast Live

Belfast leisure centres to introduce swimming lessons for children with autism

As well as Brooke LC, lessons are being offered to Falls, Olympia, Shankill, Whiterock and Templemore

Belfast Live

Tories could close 600 local pools in plans to slash energy bills support

The 85 per cent funding cut risks decimating school swimming lessons, threatens people’s fitness and wellbeing, and also puts safety around swimming pools in danger

Daily Mirror

Newcastle leisure centres spared cuts as operator slashes opening hours at more than 200 sites

GLL says that it has no plans to reduce opening times in Newcastle, despite its bid to reduce energy bills

Chronicle Live

Opening hours at hundreds of leisure centres and swimming pools cut over rising energy bills

One of the UK’s biggest pool operators said its heating bills have tripled since 2019

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Peterborough libraries offer amnesty on fines to recover 22,000 missing books

Service says the move is aimed at encourage the return of borrowers who stopped using the library during the Covid pandemic

Birmingham Post

Better gym operator GLL creates 70 jobs at Belfast customer service centre

GLL operates 250 centres and gyms across the UK, including 16 in Belfast

Evening Standard

Woman says she feared for her life after London Aquatics Centre gas leak

A woman has claimed she feared she could have died after a chlorine gas leak at the London Aquatics Centre.

The Independent UK

Olympic Park chlorine leak leaves 29 people in hospital as 200 evacuated after ‘major incident’ at pool

Swimmers said children were sharing oxygen masks outside the pool following ‘major incident’

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Chronicle Live

Worries that new West Denton leisure centre won't be ready in time for Government's 2024 deadline

Almost £20m of Levelling Up Fund money for a new swimming pool in the outer west must be spent by March 2024

Chronicle Live

Soft play centre in Newcastle city centre set to reopen nearly two years after it closed due to Covid

Eldon Leisure was one of three sites left closed indefinitely by leisure operator GLL when it made job cuts through the pandemic

Belfast Live

Belfast Council looks at 11.75 percent pay rise for leisure workers in city

Councillor says pay disparities in Belfast leisure since privatisation were "untenable"

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