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The St Mary’s pool has been a fixture of the campus for 80 years and now, for very vague reasons, it’s shutting down. The last day for the pool (and the staff who run it), is on 16 July 2018.<\/p>\n

If you’re a regular at St Mary’s you’ll know how much this pool means to the people who work and study here. There are few other ways to clear your head after long hospital rounds or a session of disease modelling. What’s more,\u00a0the facilities at South Ken are too far for us to access easily.<\/p>\n

That’s why we’ve set up a petition to try and save our little pool. If you’d like to support us, you won’t even have to get your hands wet. Just sign our petition on Change.org<\/a> and like our Facebook page<\/a>. You can also join the mailing list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lend us your voice and (hopefully) we’ll be keeping it splashy over here for generations to come.<\/p>\n

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