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Rescue package for Olympian Lucy Hope’s first pool in Jedburgh

“Being able to access a 25m pool shouldn’t be a luxury, it should be an essential,” she said.

“I think it is really upsetting to hear if a lot of these pools are closed I don’t know what the communities will do.

“I live between Jedburgh and Kelso in a little farm, it was even a 15 to 20 minute drive to this pool so imagine there were no pools within 30 minutes.”

She said the lack of local facilities would affect all levels of swimmers.

“People aren’t going to travel an hour to go to a pool every day,” she said.

“Not even competitively, if you’re elderly and you can’t travel and there’s not a bus they wouldn’t be able to access any sort of facility which they need mobility-wise and mentally.

“So I think it is quite an essential that we do our best to keep these open.”


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