Bath Business Improvement District (BID) is using Independent Retailer Month (July) as a launch point for a focus on helping the city’s independents to promote themselves. As Louise Prynne, Chief Executive of Bath BID […]
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Month: June 2016
Bath Adela’s Mexican adventure.
The Charge d’affaires of the Mexican Embassy – Minister David Najera – will be in Bath on July 19th to unveil a plaque in Camden Crescent to a little known Bath woman who has helped preserve part […]
Bath and the Battle of the Somme
With July lst marking the first day of the terrible ‘Battle of the Somme’ – during the First World War – local author and historian Andrew Swift has given Bath Newseum access to an extract […]
Devolution deal voted through for public consultation.
Bath & North East Somerset Council has chosen to move forward with the £1 billion West of England devolution deal by putting the proposed scheme out to public consultation, following special meetings of the full […]
Council gives support to University’s gull research project
Students from the University of the West of England were in Bath this week as part of an 18-month research project into gull behaviour. The behavioural ecology and psychology students, in collaboration with the University […]
Not a silly walk – just a slow procession.
Just in case you missed all the processional pomp and ceremony around the Guildhall and Bath Abbey today……it was graduation day for a lot of students at the University of Bath and a lot of […]
Clean up Bath!
How nice to see – according to the online Chronicle – that our MP Ben Howlett wants action to deal with all the rubbish scattered across the streets of this city. Anyone who follows Bath […]
Traders say it with flowers.
Seems local traders are providing their own flowers in Kingsmead Square following a pull-out by a cash-strapped B&NES Parks Department. It’s looking good. Just need some sunshine. Elsewhere there is a new floral entrance way […]
Counting my losses
I am experiencing such a feeling of loss and powerlessness this weekend. Hot on the heels of the referendum, my partner and l lost our dear cat Lawrence. A horrible journey in the car ensued […]
The way l feel today.
We are a democracy. Sixteen and a half million people in Britain have decided to leave us with that and little else. A Tory prime minister will go down in history as the man who […]
