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Swimmers and other visitors were evacuated from The Pods, in Scunthorpe, on Sunday afternoon, after an incident involving chlorine gas. A staff member was later taken to hospital for a precautionary check-up.

Humberside Fire & Rescue Service was called to the leisure centre, off Ashby Road, just after 4pm after reports of an alarm being activated due to a blockage in a chlorine dispenser pipe. The fire service said two firefighters using gas-tight suits and breathing apparatus entered a storage area and unblocked the pipe with the help of a member of staff.

A Scunthorpe man was visiting the centre's café with his friends when he said they became aware of “quite of lot of palaver”, with “a lot of the workforce running around”, just before 4pm. He said: “We were evacuated outside, where the pond is outside The Pods.