Friday 13 December 2002
 SWIMMING TOUGH TAKES ITS TOLL
s-serif" size="2">Tonight the 'race tough' regime instigated by Britain's National Performance Director took its toll at the European Short Course Championships. With the 2004 Olympics in mind, Bill Sweetenham is looking at the big picture. He wants swimmers that can deliver when it really counts at the Olympics and is simply not bothered about short term short course medal success here in Germany.
13th December [british swimming news]
 11:10:51 PM.
 SQUAD TOP MEDALS TABLE WITH 16 GOLD
sans-serif" size="2">Team Great Britain had an amazing third day of IPC World Disability Swimming Championships in Argentina. The team won eight gold medals, three in world record times, to take them one gold ahead of Canada in the overall medal standings.
13th December [british swimming news]
 11:10:30 PM.
 SWIMMERS ADD WORLD RECORDS TO FIVE GOLD
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The Great Britain team began the IPC World Championships in sparkling form, with five gold medals and five world record swims on the first day of competition. Newly appointed team captain Jody Cundy led by example to take Great Britain's first gold of the day with an outstanding swim in the S10 100m Butterfly.
11th December [british swimming news]
 11:10:02 PM.
 North-south divide is widening, warns report
The north-south divide has widened under Labour according to a new re
port by the left-leaning IPPR thinktank.
Analysis: the gridlocked north [guardian regeneration news]
 10:59:18 PM.
 Community champion
Profile: Ruth Johns, guru of real-world regeneration.
 10:58:54 PM.
 Labour betrays heritage, and its history
Comment: A massive road building programme is not the way to reg
enerate the countryside, writes Tristram Hunt. [guardian regeneration news]
 10:58:20 PM.
 GOLDS KEEP TEAM IN TOUCH AT TOP OF TABLE
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Three gold medallists from the 2000 Sydney Paralympics kept the British team close to the top of the medal table on day two of the IPC World Disabled Swimming Championships in Argentina.
12th December [british swimming news]
 10:04:35 AM.
 PARRY'S BACKSTROKE MEDAL TRAIL
ns-serif" size="2">Day one of the European Short Course Championships in Germany and Britain's butterfly specialist Steve Parry has shown yet again that he is becoming a pretty accomplished backstroke swimmer too. In the final of the 200m backstroke in Riesa his time of 1.54.11 earned him silver behind Orn Arnarson of Iceland who touched in 1.54.00.
12th December [british swimming news]
 10:04:18 AM.