Last-gasp fund saves 'vital' pool

Last-minute investment in a much-used hydrotherapy pool in Hartlepool has saved it from permanent closure.

- Nic Marko

The facility at High Tunstall College of Science was closed last summer as it needed urgent repairs to its filtration system.

Additional works were also required to the rundown changing room facilities, which were "in a poor state of repair."

The school has now been able to secure urgent funding for the work to allow the facility to re-open, which is likely to cost around £50,000.

In total £25,000 will come from Hartlepool Borough Council's schools capital works programme.

High Tunstall has also been able to secure private investment of the same amount from Hartlepool-based company Water Babies Tees Valley.