Sheffield sounds death knell for stadium that produced a champion.
The stadium where Olympic hero Jessica Ennis was discovered and trains will be closed and demolished as a cost-cutting measure, councillors have decided.
The £29 million Don Valley Stadium, in Sheffield, is being sacrificed as part of Sheffield City Council’s bid to save millions of pounds.
The Labour-run authority says it must find £50 million of savings next year after the Government announced sweeping public spending cuts.
It says the £700,000 it spent subsidising the facility in 2012/13 is unsustainable as the stadium is running at a loss.
Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Ennis trains at the stadium. She was also discovered at the stadium when she went to a summer holidays athletics club when she was 10.
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