Weighty Worries For Midlanders This Christmas
*EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2001* WEIGHTY WORRIES FOR MIDLANDERS THIS CHRISTMAS Weight conscious Brits are diving for the scales as they vow to lose a massive 95,000 tonnes in time for Christmas - that's the equivalent of a school of 950 Blue Whales. According to the annual Nimble survey, examining the state of the nation's weight in the run up to Christmas, more than one in five adults in the Midlands are aiming to lose a stone to give them an extra merry Christmas this year. Meanwhile slimming down by three stone before December 25th is the alarming ambition for six per