By MARIE TURBILL; JOANNE WELFORD GLYN AMOS, director of Oxygym in Billingham and Redcar, says: "Walking at a steady pace is good exercise in that it promotes cardiovascular health and muscular endurance." You can maximise the health benefits by making it that bit harder - power walking (walking at 80% of your maximal speed) or walking with a back pack.

ENVIRONMENT Agency Wales wants to get more people involved in water-related sport and recreation. The agency is leading a year-long project to plan new or improved water sport facilities.

LABOUR have called for a review of access laws after a landmark ruling let Scotland's richest woman ban ramblers from the grounds of her home. They want the Lord Advocate to tell sheriffs the "right to roam" is an integral part of the land reforms passed by parliament.

By Ian Herbert There is no shortage of natural wonders on the picturesque low- lying coastal plain running east from the former smugglers' haunt of Lymington, in Hampshire to the far side of Southampton Water, 15 miles away.

By Richard Freeman-Wallace WHAT do Kate Bush, Zoe Ball and Madonna all have in common? Apart from fairly enviable lifestyles, all three have crossed swords with right-to-roam legislation. Madonna set the trend.