Article: Pulling the plug on rescue plan for popular pool ; Hopes of finding a rescue package to save a crisis-hit swimming pool are fading after the main contenders to bring it back from the brink pulled out.

Hopes of finding a rescue package to save a crisis-hit swimming pool are fading after the main contenders to bring it back from the brink pulled out.

The Aquasplash leisure centre in Minehead was closed in October after springing a major leak which left West Somerset District Council facing a pounds50,000 repair bill after thousands of gallons of water escaped from the pool.

The cash-strapped council had to accept it could not afford to reopen the pool and set up a working group to find a third party to step in and launch a rescue package.

And the pool looked close to being pulled from its financial hot water when Tone Leisure, the company that runs leisure facilities in Taunton Deane, ...

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