Swimming pool opening times in Birmingham

I’ve been messing around with scraping data from Birmingham City Council’s website into a spreadsheet. The council has put information on swimming pool opening hours into tables.
These tables are not particularly consistent, but it is possible to scrape out the information using the =importhtml option in Google Docs.
I’m going to start to see what I can do with the data and am messing around with a couple of other tables, to see what else can be created.

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by on May 20, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Andrew Brightwell on May 20, 2010

http://swimmingpools.podnosh.com/2010/05/20/swimming-pool-opening-times-in-birmingham/

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