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Raffles Hotels and Resorts will open its flagship London property on 29 September, complete with the capital’s first-ever Guerlain-branded spa. The 27,000sq ft spa at ... More

Raffles' debut London property Raffles London at The OWO will be home to a brand new destination spa and health club partnered with beauty and ... More

Organisers of the Elevate event – scheduled to be held at London’s ExCeL on 28 and 29 September 2021 – have confirmed that the two-day ... More

Organisers of the Elevate have confirmed that the event will be held at London’s ExCeL on 28 and 29 September 2021. Now in its fifth ... More

The Welsh sports sector has been valued at £1.142bn (gross value added), out-performing a number of industries traditionally considered strong in the country – such ... More

English Institute of Sport (EIS) national director Nigel Walker believes that the organisation is now among the leading national sports science and medicine institutions in ... More

English Premier League club Liverpool FC has confirmed plans to redevelop its academy site in Kirkby and the neighbouring Eddie McArdle community playing fields. The ... More

Goalball UK has made a high-profile business appointment by naming John Grosvenor – former senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers – as its new chair. In a ... More

Peter Elliott, the former Olympic middle-distance runner, has joined the board of Goalball UK to help develop talent and elite performance in the sport. The ... More

UK Sport has rejected representations made by six Olympic sports for Tokyo 2020 funding – a decision labeled “staggering” by Badminton England. The national governing ... More

Chelsea Warr – UK Sport’s deputy director of performance – has been promoted to the body's top performance role to replace Simon Timson. Warr will ... More

Sports facilities in Scotland are the “best they have ever been,” according to sportscotland chair Louise Martin, after visiting the site of the £12m (US$17.3m, ... More

Work has started on the £2m (US$2.8m, €2.6m) media centre being erected at Derbyshire County Cricket Club (DCCC) as part of its ground development plan. ... More

The Football Association (FA) has boosted its performance arm with the appointment of Wales Rugby Union’s (WRU) Rhys Long. Long joins the governing body after ... More

The “customer-centric approach” emphasised in the government’s wide-ranging sports strategy will make physical activity more appealing to people from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to Arun ... More

The first government review on sport strategy in a decade included a number of initiatives which will have ramifications for the sport and physical activity ... More

Despite the disappointing end to Ireland’s journey at the Rugby World Cup over the weekend, sports fans on the Emerald Isle can seek solace from ... More

For the first time in its history, the WWE is opening its Performance Center – the training facility where the professional wrestling organisation hones its ... More

Places for People Leisure (PPL) has been appointed by Sheffield City Council to manage and operate two new sites which represent the council’s biggest investment ... More

Construction work has begun on Scotland’s new £33m Sports Performance Centre, located at the Riccarton Campus at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The facility, designed by ... More

Fife's elite performance swimmers are guaranteed a competitive edge thanks to a unique land-based training programme being delivered at Pitreavie Athletics Centre – the first ... More

Sports minister Hugh Robertson has officially axed plans to merge elite performance body UK Sport with grassroots organisation Sport England. Robertson said the two would ... More

The Football Association (FA) has launched plans to transform the future of women's football in England. Entitled Game Changer, the strategy looks to harness the ... More

Image: The £5m complex will be located at NISV Lead contractor ISG has moved in to commence groundwork on the construction of Wales' new £5m ... More