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NEWS IN BRIEF
More people-more pools
Huntingdonshirewill benefitfrom
arangeof newsportsfacilitiesif
proposalsareacceptedata
council meetingnextweek.
Membershave beenadvisedto
approvethe plans– whichcould
seemore swimmingpoolsbuiltin
thedistrict– to cope with the
predictedpopulationboom
throughoutCambridgeshire.
Plans do not include
new pool
The bid to save the Sobell Centre
in Islington came to a head as
campaigners launched a plan to
save it from demolition.
Controversial plans by Islington
Council will see the leisure
Lifeguards given chance of
centre, bulldozed and rebuilt for
improving their qualifications
£30m. But campaigners
submitted alternative draft plans
for a £12m refurbishment. But the
Lifeguard initiative offers
scheme does not include plans
for a new swimming pool –
something Islington Council
students new qualifications
insists was the overriding “wish”
expressed in a public consultation Barnsley College’s Sport & Public programme. This covers rescue either full or part time, with
answered by almost 1,500 Services Department have techniques in a swimming pool some looking to secure
residents and users. teamed up with Barnsley situation including: how to deal placements on Camp America
Premier Leisure to offer students with spinal injuries; entering the and other similar working
the chance to train as lifeguards water in a rescue situation; First abroad placement schemes.”
Schools meet energy in an initiative aimed at offering Aid, including broken bones, Gavin Batty, Advanced
targets students an extra qualification in asthma and angina; CPR on Teacher from Barnsley
Theinstallationof “carbon the leisure industry. adults, children and babies; as College’s Sport and Public
neutral”biomassboilersin The course, which is now being well as Health and Safety and Services Department said: “As
primaryschoolsin Ross Shire in delivered at the Metrodome in the general role of a lifeguard. well as making up part of their
Scotlandhave helpedcutcosts. Barnsley, means students can Barnsley Premier Leisure course, the training also
Thelocalcouncil isnow setto achieve their First and National Trainer Clare Harper said: “The enables the students to work as
install solarwaterheatingin15 Diploma in Sport qualification and National Pool Lifeguard pool lifeguards once qualified,
schoolsandswimmingpools– to work as fully qualified pool qualification is very popular which many of them will find
helpitworktowardsmeetingits lifeguards anywhere in the and at Barnsley Premier Leisure useful as they enter careers in
targetof producing4,000 country once they have we train on average 130 the leisure industry.”
kilowattsof renewable energyby completed the training. lifeguards per year from all
2010.Thecouncil hasusedamix The first group of college across South Yorkshire. Many
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producingbuildings. SCOTLAND WILL SUFFER FROM 50 METRE POOL SHORTAGE
The lack of 50 metre pools in Scotland threatens to bring an early end of any hopes for Olympic gold
£30,000 worth of tubs medal in 2012, organisers have been warned.
stolen While Edinburgh has the 50m Royal Commonwealth pool – where a major revamp will get under way
ThreeVilleroyandBoschhottubs next summer – elite swimmers have to compete for water time with the public.
worth£30,000werestolenfrom The City of Edinburgh Swimming Club, which trains Olympic swimmers Kirsty Balfour, Gregor Tait and
theSaracensRugbyClub,Cribbs Kris Gilchrist, has been forced to suspend business from the end of the month following a funding cut by
Causeway,SouthGloucestershire. the sport’s governing body Scottish Swimming.
Thetubshadbeenputouton Chief Executive Jamie Edgar said: “This is Scotland’s capital city and I think the current regime has the
displayandwereloadedbythe responsibility to maintain and improve facilities for future generations.”
thievesusingaforkliftinto atruck. Olympic silver medallist David Florence honed his talents on the Union Canal with Forth Canoe Club.
PoliceinSouthGloucestershireare The club says this proves Edinburgh can produce great sportsmen, but that there is room to improve
appealingforthepublic’shelpto canoeing in Scotland as a whole, as elite athletes have to train south of the Border.
tracethehottubs. A Scottish Government spokesman said: “We are investing millions in new grassroots facilities across
Scotland, helping increase participation and nurture our sporting stars of tomorrow.”
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