Pool staff at Tadcaster have now been laid off until repairs at Tadcaster Pool are completed. Widespread problems with tiles coming loose were reported earlier...
The happy news is that the pool at Brockwell Lido in Lambeth, south London, re-opened this morning after a period of refurbishment. The Lido celebrates its...
Sue Mott (Sport Telegraph - 3rd July 2007) reflects on the "dog's dinner" that Gordon Brown has made of the new ministerial appointments on Sport. With James...
This is Oxfordshire press are reporting on maintenance problems at the Temple Cowley pool in Oxford: the diving pool is currently shut and repair work on that...
The Twentieth Century Society has done sterling work in helping people both to appreciate and campaign for Britain's lidos. Brockwell Park Lido was chosen as...
The campaign to save Broomhill Pool owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the work of the Twentieth Century Soceity, who were successful in getting the pool...
when i heard after the budget, about all the funding that was going to be made available for communities to improve swimming for olympics, it raised hopes for...
The countdown to the North Pole swim has now well and truly begun with only 11 days to go before Lewis Gordon Pugh takes the plunge in the coldest water any...
Given that Waveney DC have indicated that the outdoor pool at Beccles will face closure in the near future our campaign group have been busy investigating the...
From Wembley and Kingsbury Times: The Gemini Swimming club for the disabled, faces eviction from Grove Park Special School, with no prospect of an alternative...
From today's Bham Mail FYI also on the web at icbirmingham City's £90m swimming pools crisisJul 5 2007 By Jane Tyler, Birmingham Mail A £90 MILLION swimming...
Jesmond is a unique pool in that it is operated by a local community charity as a non-profit organisation. On 14th April 2007, the Jesmond Pool was able to...
Jesmond Pool Newsletter:- this edition contains the news that the pool made it on to the Politics Show recently, as an example of what can be achieved by the...
I have received a message from Chris Clarke, the Company Secretary of the Jesmond Swimming Project:- Chris writes: "This is a community enterprise founded 16...
Hi Alice - in response to your recent message about community enterprises please see the messages about:- Lydney Pool (outdoor pool)(No.236 and No.237) where...
From the Herts and Essex Observer, more details on weekend closures by East Herts District Council; the Scrutiny Committee has achieved a temporary stay of...
KLIC stands for Keeping Leisure in Cricklade - the group that are currently running the Cricklade Leisure Centre after the North Wiltshire District Council...
The Leisure Consultation currently being run by Waveney District Council will finish on 15th July 2007 The last 2 open air pools in Suffolk (Beccles and...
The Lowestoft Journal flags up the Waveney Leisure Consultation. As stressed in previous message, the Consultation ends on July 15th 2007 Act now if you want...
The Yearsley Pool in Yorkshire will be closed now for at least 4 months, hopefully re-opening in November?? (The pool at nearby Tadcaster is also closed,...
More detail here on the SWim that Ms Sharrocks is organising:- "In swimming the places are turned into something magical," she says, "the lidos and pools are...
The £90million pool crisis is causing problems for many clubs, including the Boldmere Swimming Club: its 500 members are haviang to use nine different pools...
This is one of a series of articles in the South Wales Argus, focusing on the fight to save the Blaenavon Recreation Centre after it was damaged in a storm. ...
BLAST protesters staged a mass swim-in at the pool in Pontypool to show Torfaen Council that the swimming pool in Blaenavon is still very much needed. 139 cars...