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Losing weight – there's an app for that

Love them or loath them, Apple iPhones are very popular and generally everywhere you turn.

The marketing and technology companies have had a field day with some 65,000 applications being created since the phone first hit shelves.

Around 1,500 of these so-called ‘apps’ are health related. But surely this new fangled gadgetry can be no substitute for old-fashioned hard work when it comes to losing weight and keeping fit.

What are your local sports clubs doing to stay in the 21st century?

Or perhaps they’re going the other way and harking back to their exercise regimes of your parents and grandparents.