Friday, September 2, 2011

Sparkhill swimming pool up for grabs?

Let's buy a swimming pool and decorate it unlike any other pool in the world!--steve
Construction firms are to be invited to bid for the right to carry out a multi-million pound makeover of Birmingham’s community swimming pools and leisure centres. The city council wants to draw up a preferred list of companies to deliver a major overhaul of the city’s sporting facilities. The first scheme involves a competitive tender process to build a new community swimming pool and leisure centre in Sparkhill, where the baths have been closed since the summer of 2008 after asbestos was discovered in the roof. Read More http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/other-uk-business/2011/09/01/birmingham-swimming-pools-contract-up-for-grabs-65233-29346497/#ixzz1WovQAF7C

River Stour and River Stour B?

Astonishingly to me, on August 30th two news items about THE RIVER STOUR appeared at the BBC website, due to the fact that both of them are in the new ENVIRONMENT AGENCY list of the top 10 cleanest rivers in the UK.

What astonishes me is the fact that the two rivers named STOUR (one in Dorset, one in the Black Country) both make the list, as if some kind of disinformation campaign were afoot to confuse the two Rivers of the same name. Why not change one of them, river STEER perhaps? You can be sure that the River Stour I know in B.C has no Salmon jumping in it.

"Others include the River Stour in Worcestershire - previously famed for the rainbow-coloured dyes that flowed into it from carpet manufacturers -"--http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14710478