LATEST...Mums in pool protest (From South Wales Argus)

LATEST...Mums in pool protest

12:26pm Thursday 29th November 2007

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THREE mothers are holding a protest at a Gwent leisure centre as they continue the fight to save their town's only swimming pool.

The campaigners are demanding a representative comes to meet them at the site of Blaenavon Leisure Centre to hear their views. They said they will not leave until their request is met.

The council voted to close the pool and centre and flatten it to make way for a new £12 million school.

The women, members of campaign group BLAST(Blaenavon Leisure and Swimming Troubleshooters) arrived at the leisure centre site at 9am this morning to try and determine when work to bring down the roof of the pool will start.

BLAST accepts the leisure centre will go but wants to preserve the pool, which is in a separate building, and run it as a charitable trust.

Protester Claire Higgins, 37, who has three young children, said: "We want someone to meet us face to face. Torfaen Council have not listened to us and they have not listened to the Assembly.

"This is a peaceful protest. We are doing this as three mothers who are concerned for our children's futures."

Earlier this week Torfaen Council ignored a request from the Assembly petitions committee for them to halt demolition plans.

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