A new action plan to reduce the number of homeless people in Bath and North East Somerset is to be decided on by the council’s cabinet next week. The council’s five-year Homelessness & Rough Sleeping […]
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Author: Richard Wyatt
Freelance Journalist, broadcaster and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum - formally known as The Virtual Museum of Bath. Married and lives in Bath.
Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.
November 4th set as launch date for Clean Air Zone.
November 4th will be the date from which higher polluting vehicles will be charged to drive in Bath’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) – that’s if the final business case for the zone is approved by […]
Let’s get it together says University.
Setting aside – for one moment – issues like the number of city-based student flats being built or the frequency of subsidised university buses, l wanted to tell you about a rather interesting get-together that […]
How your rubbish helped B&NES break a record
A record-breaking collection of recycling materials over the Christmas period earns local residents a big thank you from the local council. On January 2nd, recycling crews handled more than 166 tonnes of recycling – the […]
April date for start of Sydney Gardens work.
Had time to stop in historic Sydney Garden this morning to read a notice posted by Susan Palmer who is Community Ranger of these former Georgian pleasure grounds. It’s expected that work on the park’s […]
Hear how to calm down local traffic
Ambitious ways to create low traffic neighbourhoods and help improve people’s health will be discussed at a free event in Bath later this month. Bath & North East Somerset Council is hosting an event looking […]
Twas Brillig.
The photograph above features numbers 8 and 9 New Bond Street – now occupied by White Stuff – but who remembers when it housed the Brillig Arts Centre – set up by Karl Jaeger in […]
Happy New Year
Well – let’s start by wishing all my followers the very best for 2020. I was out on the last day of the old year doing my Mayor’s Guides duties and making a few […]
Library bonus
Wishing Helen Stanfield a happy new year – and thanks for the following. “I have been using the Bath Library online services for a few years and have mentioned it to many friends and acquaintances- […]
Rail cut cleared at last!
It’s good to see Network Rail have finally arranged for the shrub and weed growth on Brunel’s historic railway retaining wall through Sydney Gardens to be cleared. Bath Newseum has been calling for action for […]
