The pedal-powered revolution that’s coming to a town near you

It all started in a small town in Catalonia. Now a citizen-led initiative to get kids to school safely by bicycle is going global With music blasting from a bluetooth speaker, dinging bells and excited chatter, a hi-vis convoy of cyclists – children, mums and dads – rolls safely through the rush hour traffic. This is the bike bus movement, a pedal-powered revolution making kids kings of the road and guaranteeing them a safe cycle to school. From Spain to Scotland, via San Francisco and Oregon, it’s gathering pace –…

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Pillar Wellbeing gears up to launch wellness club ecosystem leveraging underutilised hotel health clubs

Pillar Wellbeing, which provides a customised and standalone fitness and wellbeing services to the hospitality sector, will be launching at Accor’s Fairmont and Raffles Hotels in Doha’s Katara Towers in Q2 2023, and at Raffles London, at the Old War Office (Raffles London at The OWO), Q3 2023. Raffles London will be Pillar Wellbeing’s flagship, where the team intends to grow a 250-strong membership base. The company delivers a B2B2C business model to luxury hotels and resorts – built around the pillars of movement, recovery and nutrition – so they can transform underused gym,…

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Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken

The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the horizon. So if Manchester City didn’t win, who did? In the alternate reality of English football, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a Premier League champion, having led Manchester United to an unlikely title in 2021. So is Brendan Rodgers, who ended Liverpool’s drought in 2014. That same season, Everton qualify for the Champions League, earning them a substantial financial windfall and allowing them to attract some of the best players in Europe.…

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