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Facts
Jul 02, 2009 ... Contact Cottage bookings on 01720 422849 or visitwww.tresco.co.uk Cost: a week in Fearless (sleeps six) costs from pounds1,750 -pounds4,500 depending on season. Larger houses (up to 10 people)cost up to pounds5,000. Flights: from ...
How to save on digital TV
Jul 02, 2009 ... This letter is addressed to the many people, like myself, who owna perfectly good (but old) TV which does not have a scart socketand which will be obsolete (so say every TV shop I have visitedin Bath) as soon as analogue TV disappears next year. Already, they say, ...
A moneyless system is inevitable
Jul 02, 2009 ... On June 4 you published a letter from me entitled 'A moneylesssociety? Why (and how) it could work'. I failed to point out that since most of us are employed dealingwith money, whether as clerks, cashiers, or in finance, in amoneyless system the only employment would be in ...
Twenty years of live theatre
Jul 02, 2009 ... This month Shakespeare Live is celebrating its 20th anniversarywith a production of The Merchant Of Venice at the company'spermanent home at Hazelbury Manor, near Box. The company was formed in order to perform just one open- airplay a year, taking the best of amateur acting and ...
Glad I could help
Jul 02, 2009 ... I've just added up the 2007-08 incidental additional expensesclaimed by the Bath MP Don Foster. (One of the squeaky clean 'uns).Food pounds3,820, gas and electric pounds1,512, mortgagepounds9,974, cable TV pounds213, new fitted kitchen pounds3,745 andreplaced plumbing ...
Championing cycling for all
Jul 02, 2009 ... I have recently become the council's cycling champion. Thatdoes not mean that I am a champion cyclist, but does mean that Iwill champion cycling in the Bath and North East Somerset Councilarea. There are 10 member champions in B&NES - for older people,energy, human rights, ...
Carers urged to take care of themselves
Jul 02, 2009 ... Staff from the Royal United Hospital took a break from their busyjobs to learn how to look after themselves for a change. The Staff Feelgood Day was designed to help the hospital'sworkforce relax and feel better about themselves. It was held in the Oasis health club and ...
Piazza ristorante for special eating
Jul 02, 2009 ... Piazza Ristorante is a delightful, typically Italian restaurantlocated in the Podium shopping centre, boasting a garden-likesetting complete with a fountain, traditional decor and a flagstonefloor. Delicious food is prepared and served by the restaurant'sfriendly Italian staff at ...
Rajpoot is a new dining experience
Jul 02, 2009 ... During the past 30 years Rajpoot has become renowned for itsdelicious food and attentive service, receiving an impressive arrayof awards. Most recently, the restaurant won Best in South West and Top Tenin the unranked list at the British Curry Awards. The restaurant has ...
Thanks to all who helped save rob
Jul 02, 2009 ... On June 19 Rob Bennett, of Rode, had a stroke. His wife, Anne, called the emergency services who arrived withinfive minutes. They quickly diagnosed the problem and arranged forthe air ambulance to transfer Rob to the RUH in Bath. The helicopter arrived very quickly, and the ...
Share memories of the collieries
Jul 02, 2009 ... I wonder if Chronicle eaders can help me with my hobby, which iscollecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks, or tokens andtallies as they are sometimes called. These are brass discs with the name of the colliery on them aswell as the miner's number. The miner would draw this ...
'Whimsical' purchase of pet is error of judgment
Jul 02, 2009 ... I am writing to express my disgust at the comments written byeditor Sam Holliday in his article 'Buy a hamster or a tiger' in theChronicle of June 18. In this article Mr Holliday explained how he helped a child underthe age of 16 to purchase a hamster from a pet shop in ...
Joyous music
Jul 02, 2009 ... The Chantry Singers' next concert will take place in StMichael's, Broad Street on Saturday, July 11 at 7.30pm. The concert has little European music in it but will be anevening of joyous South and North American music. Works include the exquisite settings of Five Negro ...
Early birds
Jul 02, 2009 ... The seagulls seem to have worked out the new dates and times forcollecting refuse, etc. What a pity the residents haven't. Puttingout rubbish 24 hours before it is due to be collected is part of ...
Bangkok or Bath?
Jul 02, 2009 ... There is a beautiful Georgian terrace at the southern end ofRoyal Avenue, close to Queen Square. I walked past it half an hour ago and the full length of thepavement was strewn with rubbish, a great deal of it food waste,warming up nicely in the sunshine, its smell wafting on the ...
All light and air stolen by Southgate developers
Jul 02, 2009 ... Has anyone noticed that the developer of the "new" SouthGate hasmanaged to fill every cubic inch of space available with concreteand steel (with a light dusting of Bath stone)? Say what you like about the old Southgate, it had a lot of space,and a lot of sky mixed in with ...
Design of new bus station proves puzzling
Jul 02, 2009 ... There are many comments on the new bus station, few of which aregood, but can anyone explain why there are no clocks visible fromthe waiting area and why the illustration of the layout has beenreversed? This layout is repeated in the book which gives the bus times. When you ...
In praise of wonderful RUH staff
Jul 02, 2009 ... I must sing the praises of the Royal United Hospital in Bath inparticular the gynaecological surgical and oncology units, Mr NickJohnson, Dr Ed Gilby and their teams and the brilliant nursingstaff of Charlotte Ward. In two years I have had two life- threatening major ...
Award for writer's alzheimer's novel
Jul 02, 2009 ... A creative writing graduate from Bath Spa University has won aninternational prize for her first novel. Samantha Harvey, who lives in the city, has been given thepounds12,000 Betty Trask Prize for her story about a man withAlzheimer's, entitled The Wilderness. She received an ...
Mayor of Bath's guides celebrate 75 years of walks around the city
Jul 02, 2009 ... The Mayor of Bath Guides celebrate their 75th anniversary thisyear and to mark the occasion have arranged a series of specialwalks and talks for Bath residents. The walks, which began in May, 1934, and are unique to Bath, havebecome so popular with visitors that sometimes up to ...