For many people, the thought of visiting a gym means getting sweaty and burning calories, yet a MORI survey commissioned by Esporta plc shows that in fact, given the opportunity to enjoy an afternoon at a health club, less than a third of women would choose to work out.
Ninety six per cent of British people commit themselves to a pastime. However 77 per cent of those who would like to pursue a new interest are held back by the lack of time and money available to them, reveals research from MORI and Lycos UK, one of Europe's leading Internet destinations.
Once again most of the proprietors of the Sunday newspapers have kept their money in their pockets and left the field to NOP in the Sunday Times, who have Labour on 49%, the Tories on 30%, Lib Dems on 14% and others at 7%. Our model projects this to a 235 seat Labour majority, the BBC's natty model (worth a look) has it at 227. On ours, this result would cost the Tories 19 seats off their 1997 165, add another 28 to Labour's 419, and drop the Liberal Democrats by 8, from 46 at the last election.
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries has published the second in the series of reports commissioned from MORI to investigate the profile of visitors to museums and galleries in the UK.