Costs for maintaining the Ventnor childrens' paddling pool will be covered by the local council from 2013, after the Isle of Wight council pull funding.
The council fail to provide the costs of maintaining the paddling pools which they say they can no longer afford. Luckily two of the town clerks are more forthcoming with the figures.
IWC says they can't afford to run them. We've dug into how much the council is paying out in invoices for the pools. It seem to be only a few thousand a year.