'Young lives will be 'put at risk' if swimming pools close'

Report from the Daily Record

One of West Lothian’s oldest swimming clubs has branded the threat to close three local pools as “devastating news”, warning that young lives will be put at risk.

Trojan ASC, which has more than 100 members, has lobbied local councillors as well as a Scottish Government minister in a bid to release funding to save the pools from closure. 

Club Secretary Colin Matthews told the Local Democracy Reporting Service the club was “extremely disappointed” with plan from the struggling West Lothian Leisure trust adding: “Too many of our children still leave school unable to swim and this situation will only get worse without the pools we need for children to learn in.