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If you have a passion for health and fitness and you want to turn it into a viable career path, then becoming a personal trainer could be the perfect solution. Not only will you get to share your knowledge and passion for keeping fit, but you will also be helping people achieve their personal goals. Additionally, you can also become healthier in return.

However, before you dive right in and start promoting your services at your local gym, there is some important groundwork you need to do first, to lay the foundations for a successful career. Keen to get started? Read on for some...

Britain’s busiest station, London Waterloo, is trialling Artificial Intelligence that provides train information through British Sign Language (BSL).

Travellers who are deaf or have hearing loss often struggle to hear station announcements and communicate with staff, which can make it harder to plan and carry out journeys.

The new Artificial Intelligence technology being trialled by South Western Railway (SWR) translates live journey information into BSL, which is displayed through a friendly figure on digital totem screens, making it more inclusive.

The project...

Worried about your lonely aubergine shrivelling up this winter? Or are wilting salad leaves giving you the ick? Fruit and veg delivery company Oddbox has unveiled the world’s first vegetable dating service ‘Soilmates’. The tool aims to combat food waste by finding a recipe match for lonely or leftover vegetables. The site allows people to enter select vegetables sitting in their fridge drawers producing tasty, low-waste recipe suggestions which put them to good use. It’s like Tinder for vegetables, without the hassle of going on a date. New research from the brand found a fifth of Brits...

Hundreds of thousands of trees will be planted in communities across England after two major funding schemes reopened for applications today.

Over £14m will be allocated to successful applicants across both funds, which will support tree planting efforts and contribute to Government commitments to treble tree-planting rates across England by the end of this Parliament, planting 30,000 hectares of trees across the UK per year to meet net zero ambitions.

Round 3 of the Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) will see local authorities drive an increase in non-woodland tree...