Councillor John Griffiths writes "As you may have seen on London Tonight news this evening, the Council agreed earlier this evening to award the new leisure contract for running leisure facilities throughout Tower Hamlets to Greenwich Leisure Ltd. This is a 15-year contract and is an arrangement which secures a ring-fenced £4.72m funding package for YH. The investment which will be made over the next 2 years is enough to undertake all the required maintenance and refurbishment work and to keep the facility open for at least the next 15 years.....more