Great how club's go along with things and find it in themselves to be grateful for two weeks notice of the failure of a facility owner to deliver the service they exist to provide.

"THE temporary closure of Harlow Pool has had a financial impact on Harlow Penguins.

The club has been forced to contact some 300 entrants to its Open Meet, and return their cheques, and is seeing a loss of income as a result of the enforced closure while Harlow Council brings in specialists to look at various aspects of the building.

A Harlow Penguins spokesman said: 'We're grateful that we had two weeks to organise this cancellation and that the council has agreed to us booking a new date once the pool reopens. Nevertheless there has been a financial impact on the club due to the loss of income and several thousand pounds of expenses incurred printing cards, programmes and buying trophies.'"

(Via Harlow Pool Closure Spells Problems For Club (from Bishop's Stortford Citizen): .)

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We have often heard Crystal Palace called a cowshed so we hope this has nothing to do with foot & mouth incidents in Surrey. Go here for a tough quiz

"Due to circumstances beyond our control, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is temporarily closed.

All activites are suspended until Wednesday 19 September at the earliest.

Please continue to check this website for further updates"

(Via Crystal Palace National Sports Centre: .)

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"Burnham-On-Sea swimming pool was evacuated on Monday evening (August 20th) as fire crews from across Somerset dealt with a hazardous chemical leak at the building."

(Via www.Burnham-on-sea.com Burnham-On-Sea swimming pool evacuated by chemical leak : .) photo is property of www.Burnham-on-sea.com

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We asked the question about how the same press-release but with the names of different pools seemed to be popping up in the East Herts Council press and back came an answer from a reader. Obviously London Pools Campaign has no idea whether the opinions expounded are true but we feel that we must allow all opinions to be heard.

"Tony Jackson - the leader of the Council - has ignored a 1,000 signature petition and refused the suggestions of the Council's Scrutiny Committee to revisit these decisions."

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What is going on in East Hertfordshire? Is it that more pool sessions are closing at another pool or is the local paper recycling news text just with the pool names changed?

"A LIFEBELT thrown to save Buntingford’s Ward Freman pool from closure to casual swimmers has been snatched away by East Herts Council.

The district council’s executive has rejected a policy scrutiny committee call to revise its decision to close the pool to casual swimmers at weekends. Casual swims at peak weekend times will end on September 1.

Now the last hope is for Herts County Council to take the plunge and plug the £150,000 spending gap, which the district council says makes peak-time casual swims at the region’s swimming pools unfeasible."

The cuts at Leventhorpe are part of a programme to claw back a £150,000 overspend in running costs across East Herts predicted by Stevenage Leisure Ltd, which operates all five pools for the council.

Sawbridgeworth town councillor Angela Alder said that the decision was “disgusting, disgraceful and deplorable”.

(Via HEN News : Royston and Buntingford Mercury: Plug is pulled: .)

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