Tackling the school run

Taking and fetching children to and from school often creates real traffic problems around the school gates, but Bath &…

Planning to improve adult care services

It’s not only the proposed budget that B&NES cabinet members will be discussing when they meet next Thursday. Also on…

More free breakfasts

[Photo credit: West of England Mayoral Combined Authority / Simon Chapman.] More B&NES schools are joining the national free school…

A lesson in Latin

Did you know February takes its name from Februa, which just happened to be a Roman festival of purification. The…

Pic of the day. Thursday, February 5th

Spotted in Royal Victoria Park.

Balancing the books

An email from B&NES has just shown up on my desktop and, funnily enough, it mentions something I was recently…

It pays to check

[Rob and Dave Taylor] Two brothers who underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer within just weeks of each other at…

Percy on parade!

It was a clear choice. Go to the gym and work on muscle loss, or go greet a giant inflatable…

Noticeboard

Pic of the day. Wednesday, February 4th

Rainy days….

Out and about today – despite the rain. Now home, drying out and talking about everything from duck ponds to…

Pic of the day. Tuesday, February 3rd

Night birds.

With a little help

You don’t have to go through it alone. Research shows that people are three times more likely to quit smoking…

Pix of the day. Monday, February 2nd

Our weather timing was pretty good yesterday morning. Finding a long enough break in this incessant rain to visit the…

Pic of the day. Sunday, February 1st

I wonder where the ancients got the idea for a stone column? Temple of Minerva, Sydney Gardens. Actually an image…

Pic of the day. Saturday, January 31st

January. Sick and tired. You’ve been hanging on me.

Imagination rewarded

Forest of Imagination, the Bath-based arts and community engagement project that champions creativity, nature and the voices of children and young people, has been…

Work to start on new Fashion Museum in 2027.

Just received a press release regarding more funding for Fashion Museum Bath and Milsom Quarter, and reading through it l…