"TOTTENHAM Green Leisure Centre was the scene of a mass brawl on Monday.

Four people were arrested after a crowd - aged between 10 and 30 - rioted in the sports centre and on the street outside. About 25 policemen were called to the scene to try and calm the mob down.

Jim Cassins, of Hermitage Road, South Tottenham, who was in the leisure centre at the time, said: "I have never seen anything like it in my life. It was like a scene from The Bill."

(Via Tottenham Journal Kids join in 'riot' at leisure centre: .)

| London Borough of Harringay | 10 May 2006; 9:48:38 PM |# | | Discuss |

"On a sunny weekend in January, scores of swimmers descended on Tooting Bec Lido in south London. More than 300 of them - some from Finland, the US and even Australia - plunged into the unheated water of London's biggest pool to take part in the UK's first cold-water swimming championships. Tessa Jowell, the minister for culture, media and sport, was not among them - despite declaring, in reply to a question in the House of Commons that same month, that she took the occasional dip in the Hampstead Heath ponds."

(Via SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health | Janet Smith: Investment in open-air swimming pools, Wednesday May 10, 2006, The Guardian: .)

| Lido News | 10 May 2006; 5:22:28 PM |# | | Discuss |

If you missed Janet Smith discussing lidos and the findings of the recent lido Conference on the Today Programme this morning listen again here

"There are now fewer than a hundred open-air public swimming pools in the country - are they worth saving?" BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, 10 May 2006 [LINK]. Janet is the author of Liquid Assets

| radio and television | 10 May 2006; 11:18:53 AM |# | | Discuss |

"It seems that campaigners at NOT the Clissold Leisure Centre dot com, the website that loves to rant, have been angered yet again by a practitioner of the art of doodling buildings.

A Hackney swimmer phoning in to 'You and Yours' at Radio 4 was brushed aside, the website claims, as the 'expert' in the studio explained why they should be happy with the closed Clissold Leisure Centre as it was an 'architectural gem'. Sadly, for swimmers, the building has been unavailable for swimming (its primary purpose) for the past two years and five months with no date confirmed for its re-opening. The ''educator' and 'man of the people'' (as Sean Griffiths has allowed himself to be described) explained to the contributor that the closed swimming pool has people (architects?) that are 'uplifted' by it.

The website and the contributor claim that swimmers who reside in Hackney continue to travel to surrounding boroughs to find water while many young people in the borough are reported unable to swim with only 10% of KS2 children reported by some schools able to swim 25 metres." [LINK]

(Via BBC - Radio 4 You and Yours - Tuesday: .)

(Via Clissold Leisure Users' News BBC - Radio 4 You and Yours - Tuesday, public buildings discussed: .)

| radio and television | 10 May 2006; 12:11:21 AM |# | | Discuss |