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Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

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内容摘要:The original cost of the Ely scheme was put at £25m but the figure has ballooned as it emerged that as well as extra track and new signals, level crossings would need to be remodelled.

The original cost of the Ely scheme was put at £25m but the figure has ballooned as it emerged that as well as extra track and new signals, level crossings would need to be remodelled.

"It's not a problem because we'll accept all young people but it's a shame that they'll have to travel to come to us," Ms Khatmian adds.But what does that mean in a city where crime is high and poverty and deprivation is an issue?

Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

Ms Khatmian stressed: "Not all young people get into trouble and youth clubs aren't just to keep young people out of trouble."A lot of these young people that come here it might just be that's there's a safe space, there parents are working or they don't get the attention of their parents, and they've got somewhere with a responsible adult where they can come and talk to and have a conversation with that they might not get at home."It's about providing a safe space for all young people, because not everyone reverts to crime."

Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

Turning to the arts budget now, which moved one councillor to tears at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the city's creative sector has warned itThe City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is facing a complete cut of its city council funding - a sum of £630,000 over the last few years.

Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

It's losing half of that in the new financial year and the year after it will go completely.

Chief executive Emma Stenning says: "It's tough. It's really hard news for us. It's not a complete crisis. We're of a size that we've got a certain amount of resilience so we can keep going."University of Central Lancashire academic Rick Peterson, an expert in Neolithic cave burials, will present findings about the caves and landscapes of Ingleborough.

Independent landscape archaeologist David Johnson will give a talk on millstones used for grinding grain.His research looks for “tooling marks” along the Pennine chain, which runs from Derbyshire to Northumberland and through the Dales.

It shows how rock from the Pennine hills has been used to create millstones since the Middle Ages.Luke Barker and Douglas Mitcham from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will present the results of a new survey of Knights Close, a medieval site in Raydale.

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