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What happens after Olympics?
SHEFFIELD'S Olympic credentials have just become more impressive as the US diving team announce they are to use our facilities as their training camp for the 2012 sporting spectacular.
They join the Serbian Olympic squad who are to use Sheffield and Leeds as their training ground.
This is great news for Sheffield, which has invested heavily into building up its sports facilities, first unveiled for the World Student Games. And we are sure the presence of such top athletes will help further our name in the sports world.
But there must be some serious head-scratching going on to find a role for the facilities once the Olympics are over.
For by then London will have the country's, if not the world's, most up-to-date sports facilities and they cannot help but attract future major events.
Where does that leave Sheffield? Already athletics events appear to have bypassed our stadium. Ponds Forge pool has continued to attract leading swimming and diving events. But can that continue once London's facility becomes available?
We hope to hear soon that a strategy is being developed to make sure the facilities will not be left to gather dust in the international arena for which they were built.
Vice trade needs permanent answer
EVERYONE in Sheffield will sympathise with residents in the Wood Fold area of Sheffield, close to Burngreave, which is now being plagued by the problem of prostitution. For it is becoming the city's new red light district.
But we hope police - who have pledged to clean up the area - have a good idea of a long term plan for the problem.
For the latest difficulty is caused by the success of a crackdown elsewhere on prostitution.
It seems that the police are not solving the problem, only moving it elsewhere. Surely that is not something which can be allowed to continue.
Of course the solution is out of the police's hands. They are simply doing their job and moving on people who are breaking the law. It is down to politicians to take this on board and once and for all come up with a permanent solution rather than a sticking plaster exercise which pushes a difficulty from one area to the next.
Appeal of poppies
BLOODY conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have reminded the British public of the great work done by the Royal British Legion and they gave generously to last year's Poppy Appeal. But now local people have the chance to go a step further with the organisation appealing for volunteers to help out this autumn. It is a great cause and a rewarding experience. Give it a try.
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