The recent news about Varndean College's forced sale of playing fields is made all the more outrageous when, reading the Times Educational Supplement, I find funding for playing fields is supposedly available from the National Lottery funds. In 1999, £22 million pounds was set aside exclusively for the preservation and improvement of school playing fields. Not a penny of that money has yet been spent. It is time for all schools, students and parents to lobby the new Minister for Sport.
-Mrs Penny Hajduk, Lower Bevendean
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