Members of the Royal Marines visited Kidderminster College last week in a bid to get students to improve their lifestyles and take up physical activity, whilst promoting the specialist careers the Royal Marines can offer to final year students.

Sports Students at the college joined Marines, Harry Baxter and Dane Binks from Lympstone in Devon, to be put through their paces ‘Royal Marines Style’ in a three hour physical challenge at Forest Glades Leisure Centre.

Pippa Norton said: “The Marines session was really hard work, but it's been a great experience - despite the fact that females aren't allowed in the Royal Marines!" Fellow student Roxanne Burns added: "You've got to have good determination and stamina to be a Marine, they worked us so hard!"

Verity Perry, Sports Tutor at Kidderminster College commented: “As part of our careers advice support, we are always looking for interesting ways to demonstrate different career choices to students. What better way of demonstrating the physical demands of being a Royal Marine than actually taking part in a marines led physical activity session – a session that certainly wasn’t light-hearted!”