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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
New free and low-cost activities added to programme for all ages
New free and low-cost fun and fitness activities have been added to a programme in Fenland. A family fun day, wellbeing walk for new parents and those with young children, tea dances, and lower-intensity fitness sessions for inactive adults have been added to Fenland District Council's Active Fenland programme. The full Active Fenland programme includes fall prevention strength and balance classes, walking football, 'couch to 5k' and family running sessions, a multitude of Rambler's Wellbeing Walks, and much more. Councillor Susan Wallwork, portfolio holder for Active Fenland, said: "There's always so much on offer for all ages thanks to Active Fenland's free and low-cost programme of social and fitness activities. Active Fenland March town couch to 5k graduates April 2025 (Image: Active Fenland) "We urge everyone to take a look at the Fenland District Council website to get all the details. "There's sure to be something perfect for you. "Many of the classes are aimed at those who are new to exercise or building up their fitness, like the 'couch to 5k' running classes, which we're delighted to have recently seen several groups complete with deserved pride and now have new beginners joining us for." The newest additions to the programme include a free family fun day on Thursday, May 29, at Peckover House, Wisbech, from 10am to 2pm. A free social stroll for new parents or those with little ones in a buggy will take place through West End Park, March, every first and third Thursday of the month, from 10am to 11am. 'Active for Health Next Steps' lower-intensity classes for inactive adults will be held on Wednesdays from 4.45pm to 5.45pm at Hudson Leisure Centre, Wisbech, for £3.50 per session. Active Fenland tea dances, including dance tuition and light nibbles, will return to venues across Fenland. An exercise class for people with diabetes will be held on Tuesdays from 11.15am to 12.15pm at Hudson Leisure Centre, Wisbech, for £3 per session.
BBC News
25-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Two coal fire boiler air quality zones in Wisbech removed
Two air quality management areas in a town are to be revoked by a council, years after being told to do so by the government. Fenland District Council put them in place in 2005 and 2006 to monitor the risk of pollution from a now decommissioned coal fire boiler in Wisbech, Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) first instructed the council to revoke them in 2018, following up again in January.A resident raised concerns about their removal after the approval of a controversial incinerator in the town. The council's cabinet heard that was a separate issue and the incinerator operators would have to carry out monitoring. A report presented to the cabinet said air quality management areas have to be revoked after the pollution risk had not been present for five coal fire boiler, at a factory in Lynn Road, had been decommissioned in 2009, according to the Local Democracy Reporting zones, for monitoring particulates and sulphur dioxide, covered a residential area around Lynn Road. The Covid-19 pandemic and "in particular the local - and council - concerns about potential pollution levels from the [energy from waste] plant" delayed its work to remove the zones, the report said. 'Follow the law' Work has begun on the £300m plant, which recovers energy in the form of electricity and steam from non-recyclable household, commercial and industrial waste each year, according to applicant MVV cabinet meeting heard public feedback asking if "we be assured that the incinerator and the increased traffic it will bring will be strictly monitored whilst construction and thereafter, as it will be a major pollutant".Susan Wallwork, portfolio holder for community, health and environmental health, said the air quality management zones due to be revoked were a separate issue from the incinerator. Its operators had to carry out monitoring as agreed within an air quality monitoring strategy and the council would be reviewing that data regularly and "requiring the most up to date technology be used for this monitoring", the meeting heard. Chris Boden, leader of the Conservative-controlled council, said he understood how some people in Wisbech may feel about the removal of the air quality management areas, but the authority had to "follow the law" and lift them, as required by Defra. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
