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Construction work has begun on the first of two new leisure centres that will be built as part of Gateshead Council's £29m Building an Active Future programme.
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28 Apr 2009
A new £6.44m leisure centre, which is currently being built at Forest Fields, Nottingham, has received a £1m grant from Sport England's Free Swimming Capital Modernisation Development Programme (SCMP).
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16 Apr 2009
Basildon District Council has appointed Community Solutions for Leisure (CSL) as developer of the £35m Basildon Sporting Village.
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15 Apr 2009
The UK government has officially launched its two-year, £140m, Swim4Free initiative - which will see free swimming offered to those aged under 16 or over 60.
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06 Apr 2009
Plans for the construction of a new £35m sports and fitness complex in Basildon, Essex, have been given the green light by the local authority.
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13 Mar 2009
Southend Borough Council (SBC) has confirmed that it will keep the town's Warriors Swim Centre open until a new multi-million pound facility is completed at Garon Park.
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20 Jan 2009
A meeting of representatives of local authorities, sports and leisure trusts and management contractors in the East of England has highlighted reservations about the government's Free Swimming initiative.
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08 Dec 2008
The National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure was launched this week.
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21 Nov 2008
The designs for the London 2012 Olympics’ Handball Arena have been unveiled by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).
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05 Nov 2008
The new £7.5m Gymnastics and Martial Arts Centre (GMAC) has opened near the Alexander Stadium in Perry Bar, Birmingham.
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25 Sep 2008
The UK Athletics (UKA) Centre at Brunel University has purchased a Scotsman MV300 ice maker from Hubbard Ice Systems to provide their star athletes with post-training ice baths.
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10 Sep 2008
The designs for London 2012's velodrome have been unveiled by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).
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08 Sep 2008
British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS), the new national organisation tasked with promoting the benefits of sport and physical activity on university and college campuses, launched today, creating the largest higher education sports organisation in Europe.
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13 Jun 2008
The government has today given the go ahead for a National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure.
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07 May 2008
The Mayor of London is to establish a collaborative London-wide body to reduce levels of childhood obesity in the capital in line with government targets.
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08 Feb 2008
SkillsActive has submitted its business plan to the Learning and Skills Council, for the development of a National Skills Academy (NSA) for Sport and Active Leisure.
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04 Feb 2008
The British Olympic Association’s (BOA) director of Elite Performance, Sir Clive Woodward, has announced the next steps towards finalising the BOA’s elite coaching programme.
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09 Nov 2007
The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has revealed plans for a legacy partnership with British Swimming and the University of East London (UEL).
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20 Sep 2007
A report has claimed that transport and planning policies are directly contributing to the UK’s obesity crisis by discouraging physical activity.
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25 Jul 2007
Sebastian Coe, the chair of the London 2012 organising committee (LOCOG), has insisted that preparations for the 2012 Olympics are on track.
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17 Nov 2006
Sebastian Coe, the chair of the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG), has announced that promises for grant funds for athletes during the 2012 Olympics will be honoured.
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24 Oct 2006
Basildon Council and Basildon Renaissance Partnership are putting together a funding package and planning application for a £35m sports village development at Gloucester Park in Essex.
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14 Jul 2006
The senior members of the bid team for the 2012 Olympics have led the sporting honours announced for the New Year.
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03 Jan 2006
UK Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has cracked down hard on the design team of the aquatic centre for the London 2012 Olympics, overruling plans which could have seen the project cost double.
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02 Dec 2005
Watchetts Junior School in Camberley, Surrey has reported significant increases in the health of its students following a pilot project led by Olympian Steve Redgrave.
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17 Oct 2005
Richard Caborn has been confirmed as the minister for sport, following Tessa Jowell's return to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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11 May 2005
Tony Blair has announced that Tessa Jowell will return to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in the new government – a move seen as being designed to preserve continuity for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid.
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09 May 2005
The election of a Labour government for a third successive term today has received a mixed reaction from leisure industry leaders.
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06 May 2005
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