‘Once you start it’s hard to stop’: Wallball trialled to get sedentary Britons active

Game trialled at London shopping centre as data shows only two-thirds of people in England physically active

Can the simple joy of slapping a ball against a wall tempt shoppers and office workers to take a little more exercise?

That is the question posed by British Land, one of the UK's biggest property companies, which is trialling wallball - like squash but with hands and a single wall - which it hopes to roll out at its retail and commercial developments.