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Should sport and recreation put its faith in charitable trusts?

Doug Gillon on Monday: For a city steeped in tradition and history, the capital sometimes has a cavalier attitude to its sporting heritage, an ambivalent one towards future potential, and penny-pinching policies when it comes to sustaining facilities.

IT'S the best of times and the worst of times in a tale of two sporting cities. Three years ago yesterday, this newspaper reported the forthcoming demise of Meadowbank.