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August 26, 2025

Learning to swim

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN Political Editor

YOUNG people are at risk of drowning after being denied swimming lessons due to 500 pools closing in a decade, a union warned.

The GMB hit out at the Tories’ “grim legacy of austerity” after a study revealed the pool closures across England since 2010.

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