Bath Chronicle, The back issues from June 2009:
Taking steps in right direction
Jun 04, 2009 ... A Bath shoe shop is putting its best foot forward and continuingto recruit despite the recession. Shearstep has taken on five staff since opening in Union Passageon the weekend of the Bath Half Marathon in March. It is now lookingto take on a sixth employee later in the ...
Jordan deal for telecoms firm
Jun 04, 2009 ... A communications and IT firm with offices in Bath has secured apounds1.2 million deal with an electricity provider in Jordan. RFL Communications has won a contract to provide a telephone anddata network for the National Electricity Company connecting 30sites around ...
Bronze starts medal haul
Jun 04, 2009 ... Rowing University of Bath graduate Adam Freeman-Pask set GreatBritain on course for a terrific weekend at the opening rowing WorldCup of the year. GB Rowing's squad bagged, numerically, its biggest medal tally ofall-time with nine golds, a silver and a bronze from 16 starters ...
Duo take titles
Jun 04, 2009 ... Badminton TeamBath players Emily Hollis and Chris Coles wereboth triumphant in the finals of Badminton England's Yehlex under-18 circuit competitions. The event at Milton Keynes featured the top four ranked pairingsat the end of the ...
Pair miss out
Jun 04, 2009 ... Beach Volleyball The GB beach volleyball pairing of RobinMiedzybrodzki and Tom Lord missed out on a place in the main draw ofthe Myslowice Open in Poland. The pair, who train at the University of Bath, had a bye in theopening round ...
Magic 100mph lap on radar
Jun 04, 2009 ... A Wiltshire racing team are bidding for a magical 100mph lap atthe Isle of Man TT. Radar Racing, based in Broughton Gifford, and driver Andy Kingare currently competing in the TT, which is held on public roadswith one lap stretching 37.76 miles. This week sees ...
Win tickets for grand prix
Jun 04, 2009 ... Competition The FIM British Speedway Grand Prix at theMillennium Stadium in Cardiff has become one of the biggest eventsin the British motorsport calendar. And this year's event promises to be more exciting and spectacular than ever before. The 16 best riders in the world, ...
Innovation is the key - RDA
Jun 04, 2009 ... Development officials are keen to encourage firms to innovatetheir way out of the recession. South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) director ofinnovation Lorelei Hunt said her organisation was committed to"embedding a culture of innovation within the region". She said: ...
Keyford sets the pace for Bath
Jun 04, 2009 ... Cycling Mark Keyford clocked Bath Cycling Club's fastest time ofthe season at Ogmore Wheelers' 25-mile time trial in Glyneath lastSunday. Keyford clocked 54mins 41secs despite a persistent north-easterly wind which impeded riders on the open sections of thecourse. Bath ...
Gutsy Cox takes the plaudits
Jun 04, 2009 ... Motorsport Bradford on Avon rider Victor Cox received theplaudits from a knowledgeable Thruxton crowd for his spiritedefforts at the latest British Superbike Championship meeting lastweekend. Still awaiting key parts for his MV Augusta Superbike, Cox wasagain entered on a ...
TeamBath collect top club prize
Jun 04, 2009 ... Swimming Talented young swimmers from the TeamBath performancesquad returned home from the Avalon Open Meet at Millfield Schoolwith 86 medals in the bag. TeamBath's haul included 35 gold medals and their dominanceearned them the trophy for top club ahead of squads ...
Steep climb is worth the views over Salisbury plain ; Nigel Vile takes a new route around the Westbury White Horse starting from St James Church, Bratton, which has been described by Authur Mee as one of the most charming small churches in the country
Jun 04, 2009 ... Nigel Vile takes a new route around the Westbury White Horse starting from St James Church, Bratton, which has been described byAuthur Mee as one of the most charming small churches in the country Regular readers of this column will know of my penchant forcertain spots in this ...
Directions
Jun 04, 2009 ... Distance: 31/2 miles. Time: 2 hours. Start:Bratton Church (GR 915519). Maps: OS Landranger 184 or OS Explorer 143. Terrain: A stiff climb onto Bratton Camp. Contact: vilewalks@yahoo.co.uk Getting there: From Westbury, follow the ...
Gardens
Jun 04, 2009 ... Barrow Castle Gardens (pictured above) are opening for charity aspart of the National Garden Scheme on Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm. Plants are for sale and teas available. Entrance is pounds3.50for the NGS Cancer Charities. The teas are in aid of Sirius Wood. Gardens ...
In a flap over city's gull problem
Jun 04, 2009 ... Re: gull problem. Perhaps it would be a good idea to either erect flag poles orimitation predators of the gulls on flat roofs, etc, encourage themto ...
Schoolchildren get to grips with designing green t-shirts
Jun 04, 2009 ... Youngsters at a primary school just outside Bath have beengetting creative as part of an arts week. Children at St Julian's Primary School in Wellow have designedtheir own rainforest-themed T-shirts to wear as costumes for theirschool play later in the month. They were helped ...
In the courts
Jun 04, 2009 ... These are the latest people to be dealt with by Bath MagistratesCourt. Rui Braga, 34, of Barton Street, Bath, was fined pounds525 andgiven six penalty points for failing to give information to thepolice about the identity of the driver of a car. Regan Moyle, 32, of Eckweek ...
Rights of way questions
Jun 04, 2009 ... Re: closure of public footpath. Polo match being played on Bath Racecourse - Cotswold Way closedto ...
Please listen to concerns over airport expansion
Jun 04, 2009 ... I was delighted to read that the Lib Dems want to send a messagethat B&NES is against the expansion of Bristol Airport. True to form the Conservatives could only agree to pass onexpressed concerns. The Lib Dems want to endorse the fact that most respondents toBristol Airport ...
A moneyless society? Why (and how) it could work...
Jun 04, 2009 ... Once again society is collapsing, resulting in unemployment andhardship for millions and all that our politicians and economistscan suggest is that we wait and hope that in time the system willright itself. Yet we know the cause is the money system so that logically allwe would ...
Why are we waiting for a Bath concert hall?
Jun 04, 2009 ... I read the exchange between Nod Knowles, the Bath Festivalsdirector, and Councillor Hanney, Deputy Leader of B&NES and cabinetmember for Resources concerning arts provision. Quite naturally the councillor objects to the implied criticismabout the council as a whole and as such sets ...
Time to clean up public loos
Jun 04, 2009 ... When is something going to be done about the state of publictoilets? It is very embarrassing when having to use one. They are filthy,smelly, in fact a health hazard. Our city is a World Heritage City, and when you see visitorsleaving the toilets with disgusted looks on their ...
Officers to visit local schools
Jun 04, 2009 ... Children in Twerton will be given the chance to learn abouttheir local police teams as officers plan to visit schools in thearea. A series of assemblies will be held in schools throughout Twertonto educate pupils about what the local police do. Following the assemblies, ...
Sticky subject
Jun 04, 2009 ... I lost my walking stick so I went into the British HeartFoundation charity shop and was told they cannot stock them now asthey are "dangerous weapons". All I ...
Teenage yobs should be named and shamed
Jun 04, 2009 ... I am so pleased to hear there is a crackdown in Bath on youthbehaviour. Discipline starts at home - not only the kids should be shamedand named but so should the parents. They need to know how theirdaughter or son behaves on the streets at night. An example is Spring Gardens ...
File under n for 'nostalgia'
Jun 04, 2009 ... It's sad when old buildings in Bath remain empty and forlorn,whether restaurants near Pulteney Bridge, the school in BroadStreet, factories along the Lower Bristol Road or pubs and postoffices just about everywhere. Over the decades, they have played central roles in so ...
Controversial housing plans come under the spotlight
Jun 04, 2009 ... Experts will help put the Government's controversial housingplans under the microscope at a conference in Bath next week. The event - called Creating New Communities - has been organisedby the Bath Preservation Trust. It comes as Government officials look at a contentious ...
Rich variety at town's music Festival
Jun 04, 2009 ... Performers from a brass band to a ska group will be taking partin this year's Keynsham Music Festival. The event takes place in the town's Memorial Park from noon to10pm on Sunday, July 5. Described as one of the most successful free music and artsevents in the South West, ...
Who should we vote for today - and what about political reform?
Jun 04, 2009 ... I write in reference to David Cameron's recent announcement of awillingness to look at 'revolutionary' ways of restoring power tothe people. New ideas and a willingness to look at key changes to theconstitution are admirable. But do we really want to end up drowning in a ...
Can you help anti-invasion defence study?
Jun 04, 2009 ... I am currently a postgraduate student at the University ofBristol researching for a PhD in Landscape Archaeology and for mythesis I am conducting a spatial/ landscape analysis of SouthernCommand's anti-invasion defences set up mid-1940. Using various areas as my case studies, my ...
Pro-brt arguments still fail to convince
Jun 04, 2009 ... In mid-April 2008, residents affected by the council's plans tobuild a road for a BRT received a leaflet from the council whichtold them that the so-called segregated route would only be used byBRT buses for "a specified amount of time". Following this, at a packed public ...
The streets come alive with the sound of bedlam
Jun 04, 2009 ... The streets of Bath were invaded by musicians, comedians and mimeartists at the weekend as part of the city's annual Fringe Festival. Artists from around the world took part in the Bedlam Street Fairon Friday, Saturday and Sunday, entertaining crowds of tourists ...
Choral rivals to appear on stage together
Jun 04, 2009 ... Two choirs which were rivals in a TV talent contest will appeartogether in Bath next month. The City of Bath Male Choir and the Guildford-based ACM GospelChoir both reached the final five of the BBC1 show Last ChoirStanding. Appearances on the programme led to a friendship ...
Bath set to welcome supremes star Mary
Jun 04, 2009 ... Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini will be interviewing singer MaryWilson at an event in Bath to celebrate the 50th anniversary ofMotown. The man dubbed the Professor of Pop because of his encyclopedicknowledge of music will be talking to the Supremes singer as anexhibition of costumes ...
Summer drink-drive crackdown begins
Jun 04, 2009 ... Motorists have been warned to think before they get behind thewheel as the police launch their annual summer drink drivingcampaign. Avon and Somerset Police has started Operation Tonic, which willrun throughout June and will see officers stepping up trafficpatrols and roadside ...
Rugby club are letting city down
Jun 04, 2009 ... I am one of many Bath citizens who are dismayed and angered athaving to read headlines in the national press such as "Bathbrawlers' refusal to take drugs tests will not wash". This city does not deserve to have its name tarnished in thismanner. It is understood that this club ...
Re-open station
Jun 04, 2009 ... I agree with the idea of re-opening Bathford Halt Station. This would be for the use of passengers travelling to and fromLondon to connect with trains for passengers travelling to and ...
89-year-old dot salutes RUH
Jun 04, 2009 ... After various media reports about the indifferent treatment ofold people in hospitals, I was a bit apprehensive when I went to theRUH for a hip replacement. In the event my care and treatment were excellent, the staff wereefficient, diligent and ...
Project help
Jun 04, 2009 ... Do you have any personal memories of the declassified projectknown as Burlington, Stockwell, Turnstile or Site-3? Whether you helped put the place together, for instance as ...
Christmas concert led to marriage
Jun 04, 2009 ... A chance meeting at a concert on Christmas Eve led to 60 years ofmarriage for one couple. Theta and Maurice Atkins, from Keynsham, are celebrating reachingtheir diamond wedding this week. They met on Christmas Eve in 1942 at a brass band concert inClutton, where Maurice was ...
The 'dangers' of pavement cyclists?
Jun 04, 2009 ... Last week's letters pages featured an article by Julie Trollopewhere she called on cyclists to stop riding on the pavement. Theletter stirred up quite a debate online (particularly between threeregular correspondents) and these are some of the (edited down)comments we ...
Our thanks to Ken - and to all our runners
Jun 04, 2009 ... On behalf of Bath & District Leukaemia Research can I thank KenSmith and his customers for the support they have given to LeukaemiaResearch over the past 20 years? Ken tells me ours was the only charity tin he had on his counterfor personal reasons. Over the years he has ...
Join us on Sunday to celebrate king bladud
Jun 04, 2009 ... The King Bladud Pageant takes place this Sunday (June 7) and wewould love to see local people get involved. I have been planning this event for several years, since readingmy friend Moyra Caldicott's wonderful novel on King Bladud, TheWinged Man (1993), but have been prevented by ...
Hugh Dixon: How wrong can you get?
Jun 04, 2009 ... Have you ever had the feeling that everyone around you has gotsomething wrong, while you and you alone have got that very samesomething absolutely and completely right? The warm feeling of self-assurance, nay schadenfreude, forexample, as you walk to work in the morning and observe ...
Earning your wings in life
Jun 04, 2009 ... The statement from S Page (Letters, May 28) stating that whenasked "What is your religion?" 70 per cent will say Christian,reminded me of those far-off war days when I joined the Royal AirForce. The sergeant was seated at a table taking down the details of usnew recruits. After ...
Put pressure on councillors
Jun 04, 2009 ... It is agreed by many residents of Bath that these gulls are theflying pests of Bath, a really undesirable creature fouling peopleand buildings and frightening away small birds. If your ...
Bus lane fury
Jun 04, 2009 ... B&nes has spent lots of money on this 700m bus lane which feedsinto the traffic at the wrong place and feeds out again onto theroundabout at Odd Down Park & Ride. It is totally pointless as ...
Vision Bath fund cut not short-sighted
Jun 04, 2009 ... One of the most important things a local authority has to do isprovide top quality social services using the limited resources ithas. As the cabinet member in charge of adult social services, I wouldlike to explain the reasons why council funding was not renewed forVision ...
Friends of Rec's 'colourful exaggerations'
Jun 04, 2009 ... I'd like to take this opportunity to clear up a few of the pointsraised by Jill McGarrigle in her letter of May 28. The reason I consider the Friends of The Rec to be a notoriouslysecretive and clandestine organisation, is because unlike theirnamesake, the Real Friends of The Rec, ...
The heat? It's over-rated
Jun 04, 2009 ... At the risk of people shouting 'baah-humbug' at me can I be thefirst (?) to complain about the sun? And no, I don't mean the paperof that name but that 'burning ball of gas' that was much inevidence earlier this week. Now I realise straight away that criticising the sun is ...
Do vote today - if only for the 'least worst'
Jun 04, 2009 ... After the events of the past month, it would be understandable ifpeople felt so sick of politics and politicians that they had a"plague on ALL their houses" attitude. The simplest thing today, therefore, would be not to go to thepolls at all for the EU elections - or for the ...
Keeping an eye on your energy usage
Jun 04, 2009 ... People are being urged to work out exactly how green their homesare. Households interested in reducing their daily electricityconsumption can now get their hands on a device which can measurehow much energy is being used. Environmental group Transition Bath has bought some ...
Old timers mine memories of sheltering underground
Jun 04, 2009 ... More than 70 people packed in to a Good Companions meeting at StPhilips & St James last week to hear Neil Macmillen talk about hisbook Fuller's Earth: 100 Years of Mining in Bath. But what attracted such a good crowd was not so much the contentof the book, interesting though that ...
Mission to offer late night shows for Festival fans
Jun 04, 2009 ... If you still haven't discovered the late night music that istaking place at Bath's Mission Theatre during the InternationalFestival then tonight or tomorrow might be a good time. Tonight the string quartet Methera unites the familiar texture ofthe string quartet with the rich ...
Reasons to be cheerful as Ken clears out
Jun 04, 2009 ... Former Bathwick Hill Stores owner Ken Smith may have lost out toTesco in his bid to stop the superstore from opening an outlet nearhis own shop, but Ken is determined that a little thing like canceris not going to spoil his life. The irony is that Ken is currently staying with ...
Men wanted to join choir
Jun 04, 2009 ... Bath: A choir which meets in the centre of Bath is looking formore men to join. The group, Sing B4 Supper, was set up by Jane Lilley last yearfor people who work in the city centre to attend after work. Now ...
Roadshows held to tell public about waste day changes
Jun 04, 2009 ... Roadshows have been taking the message of a waste shake-up to thepublic. Collection days for waste in Bath and north east Somerset changeon Monday so that rubbish and recyclable waste are all picked up onthe same day. B&NES Council has already sent out 76,000 leaflets to tell ...
A fairytale finish to Festival
Jun 04, 2009 ... Following 2007 and last year's forays into childbirth andhomelessness, this year's On The Edge Of Life will tackle thesubjects of adoption, fostering and the human rights of childrenduring its speciallycommissioned performance for the BathInternational Music Festival. Artists ...
Western rock meets African griot at Festival finale
Jun 04, 2009 ... Justin Adams (UK) and Juldeh Camara (Gambia), whose soulfulfusion of raw edged African roots and pounding Afro-blues rhythmsgoes to the very heart of the blues, are the perfect choice for theBath International Music Festival's closing party this Saturday atBath's Pavilion. Their ...
Fringe favourites
Jun 04, 2009 ... Boom Stage YOUTH FESTIVAL: A BIGGER BOOM! Between 1pm and 7pm on Saturday, Kensington Meadows Boom Stagewill play host to a one day mini festival organised, run performedby and dedicated to youngsters aged between eight and 21. From sourcing the marquee and PA system to ...
The zen hussies
Jun 04, 2009 ... The Zen Hussies who are appearing at The Bell on Wednesday playan absurdly brilliant mix of ska, Afro-pop, Klezmer, r 'n' b, jazzand Eastern European roots. They combine original material with classic standards all playedwith considerable style, comic humour and ...
Soundbites
Jun 04, 2009 ... Mike Scott This Bristolian singer, songwriter and guitarist who is appearingat The Village Pump Folk Club in Trowbridge tomorrow brings a comicturn of phrase to an astute social and political understanding. Occasionally confused with Mike Scott of The Waterboys, the ...
Camille's wonderful world comes to komedia
Jun 04, 2009 ... Following the rapturous, sell-out reception of her criticallyacclaimed show The Dark Angel, at London's legendary RoundhouseTheatre this January, and a show-stopping appearance on Later WithJools, the multi-award-winning Irish/French chanteuseCamilleO'Sullivantakes the show on ...
Solo show from a Scottish songstress
Jun 04, 2009 ... The utterly breathtaking Scottish songstress, Jo Hamilton playsan intimate, solo set to promote her critically acclaimed album,entitled Gown, at the Bell Inn on Thursday, June 11. Stemming from a nomadic family with roots in both Kenya andJamaica, Jo was brought up in a remote ...
Science masters
Jun 04, 2009 ... Bath: Two chemists at the University of Bath have been includedin a world ranking index which measures their research work. Professor Barry Potter, Head of Medicinal Chemistry in theDepartment of ...