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Council faces legal action after landmark Lambeth LTN ruling
A solicitor has written to the council requesting any moves to make the LTN permanent are halted.

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Parade Gardens bins ‘overflowing’ since entry fee was scrapped
The entrance fee to visit Parade Gardens has been removed this year following a successful pilot event.


Private gym now proposed at Bath build-to-rent apartment block
The application says a dedicated gym will improve the quality of life for block residents.

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Two men in skinny jeans sought after police car is damaged in Bath
Police would like to identify the two young men in the CCTV image


Appeal launched after police car damaged in centre of Bath
The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday 4th May on the High Street in the city centre.


New Lidl plans for stunning UK city ‘not new in spirit’
Lidl has submitted a new planning application for a store in the east of Bath, after it withdrew a previous application in July 2024


How to get last-minute tickets to Robbie Williams' Bath shows next month
Tickets are still available


Bath MP denied Hong Kong entry in secretive move raising fears of blacklists
Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, was denied entry to Hong Kong


Primark launches Click & Collect service at more Somerset stores
The roll out continues


Former teacher, 90, charged with sexual offences against boy at Bath school
The alleged offences happened in the 1970s


Former Bath teacher charged with non-recent sexual offences
The charges relate to offences allegedly committed in the mid-1970s at Monkton Combe School.


Gaza vigil as Bath campaigners list 16,000 child deaths
Bath commuters were met with silence, sorrow, and thousands of names in a harrowing roadside protest honouring the children killed in Gaza


RUH’s radiology department celebrates 50 years of service
The department was officially opened in 1975 by the first president of the Royal College of Radiologists.


Caterer launches appeal against council enforcement notice
The ‘King Grill’ van began selling burgers, wraps and chips from the site at the start of last May.


Bath students praised for work to support hospital patients
More than 250 Community Wellbeing Hub help packs have been given out over the past year.


Permission granted for new Thai spa in the centre of Bath
The former TSB bank will become home to the third in the Thy Spa chain operated by UK Spa Ltd.


Somerset areas mapped where people are most likely to be armed with knives, guns or other offensive weapons
The Somerset neighbourhoods where people are most likely to be armed and dangerous have been revealed by a disturbing new map


Crime queen stuns fans with shock Vera announcement
The series is coming to an end


Somerset village residents 'isolated' after bus service 'axed'
They want it to be brought back


Johann van Graan provides update on injured Bath Rugby centre Cam Redpath ahead of Challenge Cup final
Bath Rugby face Lyon at the Principality Stadium on Friday night in the final of EPCR Challenge Cup
