PROMOTER Mark Neilson says professional boxing will be back with a bang as he announces the return of Neilson Boxing’s Fight Town series. Neilson’s next show, which will feature a host of homegrown talent including Swindon’s former Commonwealth champion Luke Watkins, will take place on Saturday 18th September at the MECA. The event will be the first of its kind for well over a year after Covid-19 curtailed Neilson Boxing’s last proposed show back in April 2020. In addition to Watkins, who has a record of 14-2, the show features talent from further afield in the south west, such as Oxford’s Brad Townsend, Somerset’s Ryan Wheeler and son of former world champion Lee Haskins, Anton, who is unbeaten since becoming a professional in 2019.
City Hall in London, the brutalist Derby Assembly Rooms and Swindon s Oasis Leisure Centre are among the UK s top 10 buildings under threat according to architectural campaigning charity Twentieth Century Society.
Other buildings at risk include the Bull Yard shopping precinct in Birmingham, the listed Halls of Residence at the University of Hull and the Cressingham Gardens housing estate in London.
Above: the Derby Assembly Rooms features in the Top 10 Buildings at Risk List. Top image: Foster + Partners City Hall is also on the list
The list, which is released every two years aims to illuminate how numerous buildings of various architectural styles are currently under threat in the UK.