BalletBoyz bring Talent 2013 Theatre Royal Bath
Following triumphant UK and international appearances on stage and screen, BalletBoyz bring their brand new show the Talent 2013 to the Theatre Royal Bath on Sunday February 3 as part of a UK tour.This...
View ArticleBath website to share memories of Paris exodus
People with memories of fleeing France during the Second World War are being encouraged to visit a new website. The Fleeing Hitler website, which is being launched on Tuesday, is devoted to the...
View ArticleChippenham College wins national anti bullying award
The Student Union at Wiltshire College, Chippenham has announced it won a nationally acclaimed anti-bullying award.The Barney and Echo Action Against Bullying Award was presented to the college's...
View ArticlePhoto exhibition tells the stories behind Bath's oldest residents
The stories behind some of Bath's oldest residents are being told at a photo exhibition in the city. Very Important People: The Faces of St John's reflects the life of the 800-year-old almshouses...
View ArticlePublic meeting to make Bath dementia-friendly
A public meeting to challenge Bath to do more to help dementia sufferers and their carers is to be held next month. The event on February 21 will look at ways of training people from bus drivers to...
View ArticleWebber "chuffed to bits" after being named in Bath Rugby starting XV
England international Rob Webber will finally make his Bath Rugby debut in tomorrow's LV= Cup clash against Exeter Chiefs at The Rec (2.15pm). The hooker, who suffered a shoulder injury prior to...
View ArticleLast chance for your Bath community group to win a share of £15,000
Community groups in Bath has just days left to win a share of a £15,000 cash giveaway. The Wish campaign, run by the Bath Chronicle and BMI Bath Clinic, has a prize pot of £15,000 on offer. Charities,...
View ArticleAppeal after iPod Touch found in Bath
An iPod Touch has been found in Bath and handed in to the police station. It was discovered in the snow at the Approach Golf Course, opposite Royal Victoria Park, on Sunday morning and was handed in to...
View ArticleBath singer Gabrielle Aplin leaves wild days behind
She has a number one single already and is set to tour Europe within months, but Bath singer Gabrielle Aplin has come clean about her boozy youth growing up in a little village in Wiltshire. Like...
View ArticleJacobean portraits from a period of intrigue for Painted Pomp exhibition at...
Nine 400-year-old life-size paintings have been unwrapped at a Bath museum ahead of a new exhibition.One of the most important groups of Jacobean portraits in the country forms the centrepiece of the...
View ArticleBath children's author Fleur Hitchcock goes to pupils for some help
An award-winning Bath children's author has visited schoolchildren to get their help in writing her next book.Fleur Hitchcock, whose debut novel Shrunk! was a Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week,...
View ArticleWorld inspires a week of creation at Bath primary school
Pupils at a Bath primary school have been getting creative during an international arts week.The youngsters from St Martin's Garden Primary School, in Odd Down, researched and learnt about art and...
View ArticleEx-Bath Rugby star Andrew Beattie tackles new challenge
A Bath-based finance firm is making sure there is life after rugby for one former star.After 11 years at The Rec ex-Bath Rugby star Andrew Beattie, who was forced out of the game last March because of...
View ArticleGay abuse inquiry at Bath bar: No action
A bar at the centre of a row over alleged homophobic remarks has revealed that no staff have lost their jobs following an incident last year.Belushi's in Green Street launched an investigation into...
View ArticleBellini Girls tune up for council chairman's charity ball
The chairman of Bath and North East Somerset Council, Councillor Rob Appleyard, met some of the Bellini Girls in preparation for this year's chairman's charity ball.They met at specialist dress shop...
View ArticleComedian Bill Bailey behind Prostate Cancer UK charity's Sledgehammer Fund...
Comedian Bill Bailey is helping to launch a new campaign to tackle prostate cancer.The former King Edward's School pupil is appearing in adverts for the Prostate Cancer UK charity's Sledgehammer Fund...
View ArticleBath woman carried to Africa by a powerful urge to help
At the age of seven, Natasha Miche organised a cake sale to raise money for refugees fleeing from Kosovo.Now aged 20, she is working full-time on helping those in need – as an aid worker in...
View ArticleMore people nominated for a Pride in Bath award
A headteacher who has worked for 20 years at a Bath primary school and a man who helped save a crew member from drowning in the North Sea are among the latest people to be nominated for a Pride in Bath...
View ArticleTOM BRADSHAW: Have snow doubt - winter is rugby's time
What was your highlight of last weekend's European club rugby? It wasn't strictly on-field action but mine was watching a bloke with a broom run around Welford Road in a vain attempt to keep the...
View ArticleWiltshire, Let's Get Naked in the Snow to leave hospital lasting legacy
The snow might be about to disappear, but the exhibitionists of Wiltshire got together for one last hurrah – with a mass "naked photo" in the snow event on top of one of the county's most famous...
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