Council Slams Website's Burton Olympic Slur
"Burton has a thriving sporting community, supported strongly by East Staffordshire Borough Council, and we are all proud of the achievements of our future sporting stars.
"Last year the council, sponsored by the Burton Mail, handed out 89 sports scholarships to help financially support upcoming young athletes in the borough, many of which are training for a range of Olympic sports.
"The Council's own Sports development team is recognised by Sport England as one of the most active teams in the country and they spend 12 months of the year promoting a wide range of sports across the borough and from the Council's three leisure centres, Meadowside and Shobnall in Burton and the Uttoxeter Leisure Centre. In fact during the summer holidays the sports team have arranged a number of courses to encourage children to take up sports.
"Then there are the dozens of other privately owned leisure centres, school facilities that are open to the public and sports clubs that operate in the town, not to mention activities run by Burton Albion football club and the potential for further courses with the impending arrival of the FA centre at Rangemore, announced earlier this year."
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