Rochford District Council has reassured its leisure centre users the district's facilities are not under threat - despite talk that the company which runs them may be taken over.

Fitness club operator Holmes Place took over management of the council's lucrative multi-million pound leisure services contract last March.

News in the City suggested the company may soon be taken over by venture capital firm Bridgepoint Capital.

Published Monday, January 13, 2003

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