Yep, Levenshulme pool, which was refurbished in 2010, is a victim of the ConDem cuts, as is a pool at Miles Platting and three other leisure centres.
Manchester will also be waving goodbye to five libraries and lots of facilities for the young.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/news/2011/02/08/manchester-to-lose-leis...
So in an age with obesity hitting new levels, a council closes public pools.
Hopefully this is a bit of posturing by the city's Labour Council to highlight how deep the cuts it has to make to hit the Con/Dem govt's new funding levels are.
Sadly though I think it is the tip of a very big iceberg. During the 80s and 90s councils, under pressure from Tory govts more concerned with tax cuts for the wealthy, closed hundreds of pools - many of which were architecturally very significant. The end result was large urban areas with not enough pools and rising levels of obesity and fewer kids able to swim.
This is so utterly depressing
