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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Opening hours at hundreds of leisure centres and swimming pools cut over rising energy bills

The firm runs hundreds of leisure centres and swimming pools across the UK

(Picture: (Stock image) PA Wire)

Opening hours are to be slashed at hundreds of public leisure centres and swimming pools over winter due to the rising cost of heating and lighting them.

Energy bills at GLL - the parent company of Better Leisure, which runs 268 leisure centres across the UK - have reportedly tripled since 2019.

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