LEISURE centres are offering events for the over 50s this month to celebrate an Older People's Festival. Temple Park Centre, South Shields, has swimming and gym sessions for just pounds 1 in October. Hebburn swimming pool is also offering swimming and gym classes as well as aquafit sessions.

At Torbay Leisure Centre there has never been a better time to get fit.

Teenagers danced, swam, boxed and kicked their way to fitness at Stroud Leisure Centre last week. The new project launched by the centre is aimed at combating teenage obesity.

The school summer holidays are upon us and like Marmite, the imminent break is sure to provoke mixed emotions in households. Kids love it but for some parents it heralds the beginning of a time consuming, patience shredding task; finding something for them to do.

By Mark Summers A [pounds]12.3M swimming pool and leisure centre is guaranteed to make a splash when it opens tomorrow. Freeman?s Quay, in Durham, will open to the public on-time and on- budget and will herald a new era of leisure in the city.