BY SAKAWAT AMINStoney lane gym has now been re-opened, six months after the fire which was caused over a £10 gym membership, the gym is now back up and running. The gym which has been shut over a period of six months has now got elev-en cardio machines, a variety of free weights and supported machines. The new gym also consists of a boxing ring, a ufc ring, six punching bags and a stag-gering amount of chin up bars. Six months ago when the gym had been burnt down from the fire which happened to be caused from a cigarette and a leak of petrol.

Khalid yafai, aged 47, the owner of 24/7 gym had the gym based on stoney lane in sparkhill, he has said that the gym wasn’t in flames because of a petrol leak but instead a group of 5 men aged between 25-33 had a problem with him in the gym about an issue about joining the gym. Two black males of the group of 5 men came to the gym to make a membership for a month, which would cost them £20 each but these two men refused to pay £20 and said they will only pay £10 each, this lead yafai and the two males to an argument, where both parties contributed in an immature behaviour

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of insulting each others family, this lead to yafai punching one of the black males. Later on that day a group of 5 males came in black tracksuits at 3.00am where they poured petrol inside the gym and threw a ciggerate on the pet-rol causing a huge fire. Mr yafai was devastated that his gym which he had been running for 5 years had been destroyed over a £10 mem-ber ship fee. But now the gym is back and hope-fully for good this time. A member of the gym, Yousuf Iqbal has said, “ I have been waiting ever so long and i am very glad that the wait is over “.

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Mr pervez has said, “ I hope to make a change and fix all my mistakes as there is no excuses for what i have done, and i real-ly hope this does not affect my daughters life as she grows old-er, i want her to look up to me and say my dad is making a big change and is not into the gang lifestyle”. Mr pervez has de-scribed life inside prison as ‘vile’ and ‘ugly’, he says, “ prison is the clos-est to hell in this world, i hope all those youngsters who are involved that gang lifestyle would just leave now because they could end up in-side that rotten place or even death, its a very dangerous life and the consequences could be very severe, the worst part is see-ing your parents go-ing through the pain, so i would highly recommend all the youths to stop look-ing up at these thugs and focus on educa-tion or to start play-ing football, boxing or anything they enjoy, its really not worth it”.

Five fruits a day has change my life completely, at first I thought it was just a saying that five fruits a day will make you healthier, until I actually tried it myself and i can say it made a huge difference. The journey started about 6 to 8 months ago , I was sick and tired of looking in the mirror everyday and feeling sad about the way my body was shaped, so I set my self a targer for about a month, my target was to start eating five dif-ferent fruits per day with a minimum of 8 glasses of water. At first i thought it was’nt going to make much of a dif-ference and if it would make a difference it might just be a

BY SOHAIL AHMED very minor change, so i decided to start gym at the same time just sticking to doing about an hour cardio per day. After four weeks, i started to notice some changes in my body and my feelings towards myself and other people had changed completely, i felt much better about myself, family members always told me that im always in a happy mood and i look much better, After about 4 months I noticed dramatic changes from my starting point. I have now lost 10lbs of fat and my body percentage from 22% has now gone to 13%.

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Inset: Members are happy that the gym is re-opened

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