NEWS
Rotherham United
unveils stadium plans
Rotherham United Football Club (RUFC) has revealed initial plans for its new multi-million pound stadium to be built in the heart of the South Yorkshire town. In January, the Coca-Cola League
Two club announced that it had acquired Rotherham’s former Guest and Chrimes Foundry site for the proposed 12,000-seat development. RUFC, which left its former Mill-
moor home in 2008, is now set for a return to Rotherham after being forced to play home fixtures at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield.
Exhibits include historic pieces of sports equipment
Our Sporting Life scheme launched
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New sports facilities for Yorkshire Dales
R
eeth and District Community Sports Club (RDCSC) has re- ceived the green light to move
forward with plans to develop new sports facilities for rural communities in Yorkshire. Residents in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale are in line to benefit from a new floodlit multi-use games area, which can be used for basketball, netball, five-a-side foot- ball, hockey and tennis. A pavilion equipped with changing
rooms and showers, storage areas and improvements to the existing playing surface also form part of the RDCSC project. The total cost of the scheme is estimated to be more than £600,000. The Football Foundation has con-
tributed £344,444 towards the project, while Sport England has invested nearly £152,000.
C
ur Sporting Life – a nationwide programme of 100 events designed to explore the UK’s
sporting heritage – has launched with the unveiling of a new exhibition in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Jonny Wilkinson’s Rugby World Cup-
winning ball, a football used in the first Olympic final and details of 1930s football etiquette are among artefacts that have been put on display as part of
Our Sporting Life Henley, located at the town’s River and Rowing Museum. The British Olympic Association and
the British Paralympic Association have contributed objects to the exhibition, which forms part of the wider Museums, Libraries and Archives initiative. Highlights from each UK-wide exhibi-
tion will help to form one of the largest ever collections of sporting memorabilia, to be held in London for the 2012 Games.
2012 budget concerns raised
oncerns have been raised by a House of Commons committee over the “worrying” position of
the budget for delivering the 2012 Olym- pics in London. The public accounts committee (PAC)
revealed that, although it was encour- aged by progress on construction projects, contingency funds had been left with “only £194m headroom” by unforeseen problems. According to the committee, the
majority of the remaining £1.27bn of the £2.747bn contingency fund has been ear- marked for “known risks” and may not be able to cover any unplanned work that is required. PAC chair Edward Leigh said: “Of the
sum left within the Olympic budget for contingencies, £1.27bn, most is currently earmarked for known risks. But unfore- seen problems continue to emerge to place fresh demands on the contingency. As we have seen, the economic down-
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The 2012 aquatics centre, currently under construction in East London
turn has already led to the Olympic Village and Media Centre having to be funded by the taxpayer. “The unplanned work to secure and
maintain the Olympic Park after con- struction could require a further £160m of the contingency.”
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