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The UK government is exploring whether incentivising people financially to take part in physical activity could help drive down obesity levels. Sir Keith Mills, who ... More

Excess body fat and obesity are likely to have contributed to more deaths in England and Scotland than smoking since 2014, according to new research ... More

The failure to tackle the UK's obesity crisis is down to successive governments being guilty of weak policy design, lack of effectiveness and botched implementation. ... More

The British Museum has named Mary Beard as its a new trustee, a move which comes less than a year on from the British government ... More

More than 50 leading technology firms have teamed up as part of a £1bn (US$1.38bn, €1.14bn) deal to put Britain at the forefront of the ... More

The architect David Marks, co-founder of Marks Barfield Architects, has died at the age of 64 following a long illness. Marks, best-known as the co-designer ... More

Pioneering British leisure architect Peter Sargent has died at his home in Florida. Sargent was one of the founding partners of sports and leisure architectural ... More

Physical activity - no matter how minimal - can have a positive effect on happiness, according to the largest ever smartphone-based study. Researchers from the ... More

Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to building towering wooden skyscrapers in the future, new research ... More

A lack of physical activity among boys may result in them falling behind in reading and maths at school, according to new research. A study ... More

From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new ... More

The Chief Medical Officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, is to discuss the key role that physical activity has to play in the public health ... More

Tanni Grey-Thompson has called on Public Health England (PHE) to bring added substance to its exercise initiatives by making physical activity one of its main ... More

A brand new industry event aiming to bring together a wide range of sectors to tackle the physical inactivity crisis will take place at London ... More

The World Health Organisation has sets its sights on overcoming the growing physical inactivity epidemic by outlining a 10-year strategy to get Europeans moving more. ... More

Scientists have called for a major rethink in the way we present and portion food, after new research found that larger-sized portions may be playing ... More

London's Walkie Talkie, also known as 20 Fenchurch Street, has suffered a barrage of criticism since its inception – and now it takes a place ... More

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to make addressing the “great scandal” of childhood obesity a top priority of this Parliament has been dismissed as ineffective ... More

Tackling physical inactivity must become a frontline health priority for the UK’s next government, ahead of the separate issue of obesity, says a new Health ... More

Physical inactivity is killing twice as many Europeans as obesity, according to a landmark report from the University of Cambridge. A 12-year study – published ... More

The city of Cambridge, UK, is to be transformed into a ‘living museum’ for five weeks starting in October as part of a major event ... More

Image: Arup Associates are behind the centre's design Bedford-based contractor SDC Builders has commenced work on the construction of a new sports centre at the ... More