A FURTHER £6.5m of taxpayers’ money could be ploughed into the Rose Bowl cricket ground, a confidential report leaked to the Daily Echo reveals.

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The council document claimed that without taxpayers’ cash and other investment the Rose Bowl would “almost inevitably go into administration.”

And the Echo can reveal new plans for a £30m hotel for the site are on the table.

Last night the Rose Bowl said that since the report was written its financial situation had changed.

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