Bath, England News

GYMNASTICS Baskerville's School of Gymnastics celebrated its 25th anniversary when it staged a silver jubilee Christmas Gala last weekend.

I thought I'd go visit the mysterious stones of Stonehenge with Tracks Travel recently.

Police are appealing for information after a 15-year-old boy was attacked while cycling along the Bristol to Bath cycle path.

I've lived in Bath for 10 years and think it has the perfect combination of city life and some beautiful surrouding countryside.

Friends of a missing clubber have reconstructed his last movements during a march on Saturday, while nearly 30,000 have joined a Facebook group dedicated to finding him.

Runners in this yeara s Bromham Pudding Run at least had it dry when they set off on the 10k course around the village on Sunday morning.

A new manager for The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge has been appointed. John Grinnell, manager of The Podium in Bath, will start on January 4, succeeding Steve Murray, from Chitterne, who will become a regional manager with responsibilities for shopping centres and retail parks at Didcot, near Oxford, Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea, South Wales.

The girlfriend of a Melksham designer missing for almost two weeks has vowed to keep searching for him despite the emotional strain taking its toll.

She's smaller than a lot of cats. In fact her owner says when she first clapped eyes on Bonnie, the tiny terrier was the smallest dog she had ever seen.

Last Thursday, I attended the Better Bath Forum meeting convened by the excellent Henry and Jane Brown.

With Christmas just around the corner, time is no doubt at a premium. This week's walk at Corston is therefore very much on Bath's doorstep.

Police will dredge a river for a second time today in search of a nightclubber who went missing 10 days ago.

The Bath area has been judged as a good place to live in a new independent rating system.

Police will be deployed on Saturday in an attempt to stop a repeat of the congestion problems which brought the centre of Bath to a halt at the weekend.

More than 17,000 people are now part of a Facebook group dedicated to finding missing 28-year-old Casper Flagg.

The Bath half-marathon has finally been given a UK Athletics licence for 2010. While entries for the race closed last week after reaching the 15,000 limit, race director Andrew Taylor was still awaiting formal notification from the national governing body.

Lime Microsystems Ltd. and PicoChip Designs Ltd. have announced they are collaborating to develop a reference design for femtocells for third- and fourth-generation communications.

Are people fully aware of the plans for development on green belt land near Newton St Loe? Earlier this month I attended a meeting at Corston Church to learn more about this development and have since looked at the B&NES Core Strategy.

Rain and a technical hitch did little to dampen the enthusiasm of crowds gathered for the switching-on of Bradford on Avona s Christmas lights.

A retired Army major from Bath who masqueraded as a woman to chat about abusing young girls on the internet has been told he could be jailed for making indecent pictures of children.