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Anger after SNP U-turn on school fitness targets

Increasing exercise fails to make children fitter, claim councils By Mark Howarth

MINISTERS are scrapping physical education targets - after councils claimed that giving children more exercise does not make them fitter.

The SNP election manifesto promised every pupil two hours' specialist teaching a week as part of the war on obesity.