Let’s go out and play!
Taking up exercise in your 60s will still help stave off major ill health and dementia, research suggests. The study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine followed 3,500 healthy people at or aroun ...
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U3A takes on extreme sports challenge
What makes 40 well-balanced, intelligent third agers decide to face the challenge of abseiling down Portsmouth’s 100 metre high Spinnaker Tower as they did at 8 am on a sunny morning in mid May? The c ...
Senior Playgrounds
Like most playgrounds, it is filled with smiling faces and laughter. But these faces have seen more of life than you might expect, and the laughter is a little more mature in tone. Britain’s fir ...
Why not take the plunge?
According to recent statistics produced by the Amateur Swimming Association one in five adults cannot swim. That is more than nine million people; a shocking number considering swimming is one of the ...