Hundreds of people assembled alongside Bath Abbey on Sunday, September 1st – for a protest march through the city. Members of Bath for Europe were joined by the city’s MP Wera Hobhouse and other local […]
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Climate ready for change.
As Mahatama Gandhi once said : ‘Be the change that you wish to see in the world.’ It’s a good way of introducing the Bath Climate Change Conference with MP Wera Hobhouse is organising for […]
Nothing idle about Bath’s MP
Bath’s Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse has been doing her bit on National Clean Air Day. She’s got the government to confirm that they are looking at implementing her bill, which would strengthen local authority […]
Too afraid to cycle.
Many people are too afraid to cycle in Bath – even if they want to – according to the city’s MP Wera Hobhouse. Herself a keen cyclist, she’s chosen Road Safety Week to hi light […]
Too much stick
‘Too much stick and not enough carrot,’ says Bath MP Wera Hobhouse in her first official comment on the B&NES Clean Air Zone proposals. In a press release she says: “We must act urgently to address […]
Win a day in Westminster
To celebrate the centenary of women’s right to vote and to stand for parliament, Wera Hobhouse (Bath’s first female MP) is running a speech writing competition, aimed at Bath’s young women. Entrants are being asked to write a 500 word […]
Police beat needs a city heart!
Bath’s MP Wera Hobhouse is joining forces with Lib-Dem B&NES councillors to campaign for the return of a proper police station for Bath. Wera Hobhouse said it was “ridiculous” that the city didn’t have a […]
Welcome, Mr Mayor!
It’s an odd little ceremony which took place in the city’s Abbey on Saturday morning. A 500-year-old building which was temporarily closed to the general public – aka milling tourists – while a group of […]
Bath MP wants more radical solution to transport and pollution woes.
Bath MP Wera Hobhouse took her ‘surgery session’ out on the streets of the city today in an effort to drum up public support for a conference she is organising about Bath’s transport and pollution […]
Making Bath clean and ‘green’.
MP announces Transport and Pollution Conference for Bath While our council deliberates over a clean air zone for the city centre, l hear Greenpeace has been pulled in to talk about air quality at a […]
