We gathered to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, lined the streets to welcome the Olympic Torch to Bath and splashed around in the wettest year since record began.
A fighter jet drama played out in the skies over Bath and Hollywood came to the city to film Les Miserables at Pulteney Weir.
Bath was touched with tragedy as Kirsty Bowen's friends paid tribute to the popular teenager who was killed in a car crash but we also had triumph, as thousands pounded the streets in the Bath Half Marathon.
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JANUARY
The year began with a road rage video which became a YouTube sensation, ex-soldier, 88-year-old Gordon King becoming a hero for tackling a pair of robbers with his walking stick and brides to be speaking out after a luxury wedding venue closed leaving uncertainty over their wedding plans.
FEBRUARY
Bath was on snow alert at the begining of February while a warning of a different kind was issued by the advertising watchdog, which told a Bath Christian group to remove claims that it could heal people from its website and leaflets.
Ex Prime Miniser Gordon Brown's wife Sarah tackled a sporting challenge alone after TV presenter Lorraine Kelly was injured while training.
MARCH
The sun shone and 12,000 runners hit the streets for the Bath Half Marathon. The city really caught the athletics bug as the route for the Olympic torch was revealed.
On a sour sporting note, a rugby player was jailed for breaking a Bath teacher's jaw during a match but good news returned when a teenage Bath fishmonger rescued a woman from the river and an appeal was launched after a hoard of 30,000 Roman coins was found.
APRIL
A faulty distress call from helicopter sparked a drama over the skies of Bath which saw Typhoon Euroighters screaming across the city and causing a sonic boom which was heard across several counties.
Another distress call, this time to a 999 operator, alerted police to an assault by a Bath woman on her ex-partner in a rather painful region and the emergency services came to the rescue again when five cars caught fire in Oldfield Park.
Bath Rugby were also forced to deny rumours All Black Stephen Donald was returning to New Zealand.
MAY
It was party time as the Olympic Torch arrived in Bath but the that fell flat for music fans when the Bath punk festival was cancelled.
A campaign was launched to save the Packhorse pub in May and one pensioner was in need of help after driving her car half a mile down a river path.
JUNE
There was drama of a different kind when a hot air balloon was forced to land close to a busy road and a Range Rover driver was left steaming when he was fined for taking up two parking spaces.
But there smiling faces all round when the best of Bath were rewarded in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
JULY
The were celebrations on Pulteney Bridge when Mark and Poppy Powell launched their ice cream parlour KnickerbockerGlory but there was a chill in the air when a blueprint putting a lid on the number of new homes was sent back to the drawning board.
And there were howls of disbelief when an RSPCA officer called out to rescue a baby deer was given a parking ticket.
AUGUST
There was a lucky escape for the American rock band Baroness when their tour bus crashed 30ft off a road near Bath in heavy rain.Bridesmaid star Chris O'Dowd also survived his stag weekend in Bath and Monty Python star John Cleese continued the wedding theme when he got hitched to wife No 4.
SEPTEMBER
Justice caught up with a serial troublemaker who police called the "scourge" of his community and a beggar who was given as Asbo after being reported to police 27 times this year.
There was shock of a different kind for one Bath family who woke to find a huge hole in their front garden - and watched it get bigger during the day.
OCTOBER
There were tears as family and friends paid to tribute Bath teenager Kirsty Bowen who was killed in a car crash two days after her 18th birthday.X factor star Jaheme Douglas broke down as a story broke about his abusive father but there was relief in Thailand as a man, although being repeated stabbed, saved his girlfriend from a sex gang.
On a happier note, Hollywood came to Bath to film Les Miserables at Pulteney Weir.
NOVEMBER
More bad weather hit Bath, this time triggering a landslip which disloged a huge boulder which just missed nearby homes, all this just weeks after Bath woke to a wintery scene after a surprise snow storm.
There was more bad new as free parking was scrapped in Royal Victoria Park and a lucky escaped for a bellringer who got entangled in rope at a Bathampton church.
DECEMBER
Everybody loved a Bath Blues Brothers tribute act but not, it seems, the Christmas Market organisers who thought they were too loud and pulled the plug on a performance.
The battle of the supermarket giants in Bath hotted up after Homebase refused to budge from its Pines Way site.
And finally, it looks like the end of the road for the eyesore Destructor Bridge in Bath after plans were announced to replace it as part of the Western Riverside development.
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