Family celebrates success in Bath Chronicle's 'Win a Christmas' competition
A family will be spoilt this festive season after being picked for the Bath Chronicle's 'Win a Christmas' competition.Marianne and Richard Staniforth have won everything they need to make this festive...
View ArticleUniversity of Bath student's months of verbal abuse caused fiance to 'snap'...
An "outstanding and gifted" Bath University student subjected her fiance to months of verbal abuse which caused him to "snap" and kill her, a court heard yesterday. High-flying investment worker Paul...
View ArticleHundreds of Santas provide perfect present for charity
A run by 200 Santa-clad fundraisers has brought in £5,000 for a children's charity.The runners took part in the Children's Hospice South West (CHSW) Santas on the Run event in Bath last week.The 2km...
View ArticleBath schoolgirls complete charity rowing challenge
A group of Bath schoolgirls have rowed 140 miles without leaving the gym to back a charity.The 23 GCSE PE students from the Royal High School took on the challenge as part of the 140th anniversary...
View ArticleTOM BRADSHAW: 'Guaranteed' European places are not helping Italian clubs
This week, talks have once again taken place over the future complexion of European club rugby.Few, except those with vested interests in retaining the status quo, would argue that the current...
View ArticleRoyal United Hospital receives top marks for A&E privacy
The Royal United Hospital has been given a vote of confidence by its accident and emergency patients.The hospital scored well in a survey which questioned more than 300 patients.The overall view of the...
View ArticleCall for more blood donors in Bath
A Christmas Eve blood donation session has been organised in a bid to tackle a looming shortage this winter.In the last ten years, the number of donors across the country has declined by 20 per...
View ArticleBATH RACECOURSE COLUMN: Paul Nicholls has been quick to fill the void
Bath Racecourse general manager Jo Hall gives her view on the horse racing scene...It may have been a quiet month in terms of track action at Bath but the rest of the racing world has provided its fair...
View ArticleNew buses arriving gift wrapped in Bath
Seven new low-floor buses equipped with leather seats will soon be running on a key route through Bath.Operator First has spent £900,000 on the buses which will be used on the 13 route between Foxhill...
View ArticleTalented musicians entertain at Bath school winter concert
Musicians at a Bath school entertained parents with their annual winter concert. The talented pupils from Ralph Allen School had been rehearsing weekly since September to make sure they had perfected...
View ArticlePolice horses in educational visit to Bath primary school
Pupils at a Bath primary school were excited to see some unusual visitors in their playground - two police horses. Broadmead and Clifton were at St Michael's Junior School in Twerton as part of a...
View ArticleTurkish delight as Michael Jamieson wins World Short-Course silver medal
Michael Jamieson claimed his first World Short-Course Championships medal by taking a superb silver in the 200m breaststroke in Istanbul.After qualifying eighth fastest for the final, the British Gas...
View ArticleAgulla's try treble helps Bath Rugby maintain 100 per cent Amlin Cup record...
MATCH REPORT: Calvisano 5 Bath Rugby 39 Horacio Agulla grabbed a hat-trick of tries as Bath Rugby made it four bonus-point wins out of four to stay on course for top-seeing in the Amlin Challenge...
View ArticleSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Theatre Royal Bath
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Theatre Royal BathThe highlight of the show for two six-year-old tiara-wearing princesses alongside me was catching a packet of sweets thrown into the audience from the...
View ArticleParagon Singers: Wiltshire Music Centre, Bath
Paragon Singers Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Wiltshire Music CentreThere will have been those who thought: Monteverdi Vespers? At Christmas? In fact Vespers is the Christian service of evening prayer,...
View ArticleLatest news on the Julian House Christmas Appeal
A night shelter which has just emerged from a £460,000 revamp is already having to turn homeless people away this winter.The Julian House charity is looking for extra public support this Christmas as...
View ArticlePre-owned clothes shop Bath Frock Exchange relaunched
There are new faces at one of the city's most stylish second-hand clothes shop.The Bath Frock Exchange in Kingsmead Square is under new management and after a refurbishment the business has...
View ArticleBath gymnast Tiola Gleeson is youngest member of GB squad at Australian Youth...
Bath's Tiola Gleeson has been selected as the youngest member of the British squad for the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January.The 12-year-old Ralph Allen schoolgirl trains under the guidance...
View ArticleWoman who lost her brother pays for bed and dinner for Bath homeless people...
Homeless people in Bath will be able to have a warm bed and a roast dinner on Christmas Day thanks to the generosity of a woman whose brother was looked after at Julian House.Geraldine Marsh, 49,...
View ArticleUniversity of Bath has new research fellow
A new centre which aims to find new ways of getting disabled people fit has appointed its first research fellow.The DASH Centre at the University of Bath was launched earlier this year to change lives...
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