U.K.-based gym operator PureGym has acquired the majority of bankrupt Blink Fitness’ U.S. locations for $121 million in cash, the company announced last week. But an 11th-hour bid from another ...

Multiple young people in Colne will be spoken to by police after bouts of anti-social behaviour, targeting elderly residents. A group of 10 to 15 youths have continually targeted a specific ...

Planet Fitness has made a last-minute bid to acquire the bankrupt gym chain Blink just days after the U.K.-based chain PureGym announced it had agreed to purchase most of the company’s assets ...

Andy Fletcher, owner of Axes to Ashes Axe Throwing and BBQ Smokehouse, said: "Axes to Ashes is proud to announce that we are creating a fixed axe-throwing venue within The Fun House of Colne.

Campaigners who want the government and rail industry to reopen the Colne to Skipton rail link have taken their local MP down to see its potential. The 12-mile route, connecting Lancashire with ...

PureGym is looking to move into a Leicestershire town. Currently, residents with memberships with the company have to travel to Corby or Kettering to do their workouts. However, that could all be ...

In the planning officers' report, it said: “The change of use and extension to the opening hours to allow 24/7 use of Unit 9 only, in association with the gym use, would not adversely affect the ...

Plans to open a new 24-hour gym on an Oxfordshire town retail park have split opinion. PureGym wants to open a new gym at Kings Park, in Limborough Road, Wantage, in a unit previously occupied ...

In a modern era often disconnected from heritage and tradition, the quaint villages of West Yorkshire’s Colne Valley are doubling down on their offbeat local festivals. Did you know with a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. PureGym plans to make the US its second-biggest market, with more than 300 sites by 2030, as it pursues a $ ...

An empty unit at a Suffolk retail park could become a 24-hour gym if plans before a council are given the go-ahead. Pure Gym Limited has submitted a change of use application to Babergh District ...

Planet Fitness — the largest gym chain in the US with more than 2,000 locations — had made an 11th-hour bid to acquire Blink, which last week accepted a lower offer from UK-based Pure Gym ...