An abandoned UK leisure centre has been left to rot, with grim murky water still in its swimming pool. Inside the once luxury attraction, its swimming pools and diving boards remain as they were ...

Gateshead Leisure Centre and Birtley Swimming Centre will shut their doors on July 21 because of council budget cuts, if plans are signed off by local authority leaders next week. However ...

Judith Fordsham helps run swimming classes for children from Bensham’s large Jewish community, 260 of whom use Gateshead Leisure Centre’s pool every week. The 48-year-old said: “It feels so ...