Lifelong friends lose seven stone between them after joining Hartlepool slimming club

Lesley Dale and Julie Musgrave met at Stranton Primary School, in Southburn Terrace, Hartlepool, at the age of 10 and now, at the age of 58, have decided to “sort their lifestyles out, health and diet.”

The duo have both been serving delicious treats at a bakery in town together for years but since Covid, and a badly broken ankle for Lesley, they decided to join Slimming World, at Hornby Park, in Seaton Carew, and “have never looked back”.