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Article: Astroturf pitch for Larne High School?
- Article from:
- Larne Times (Larne, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2008
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LARNE High School is the latest site to be identified as a location for an artificial playing pitch in the town.
And this time the borough council is determined to get it right.
The council has been assured by the body responsible for allocating lottery cash that it remains committed to part-funding an all-weather astroturf surface in Larne, despite withdrawing a [pounds sterling]363,000 grant recently.
Meanwhile, the controversial plan for the floodlit facility to be located at Sandy Bay remains "live", leaving some councillors bemused as to why the plug hasn't been pulled on the doomed project.
The high school scheme is also subject ...