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Community leaders and volunteers in Peasedown St John are celebrating this week after receiving the news that the village’s popular community library has received a much-needed funding boost. Peasedown Community Library, which is one of B&NES Council’s 11 community libraries across the district is run by local charity, the Peasedown Community Trust. With funds to…

Essential work to fix roads and improve walking, wheeling and cycling routes across Bath city centre is being carried out from the end of May onwards. Engineering works in Manvers Street will start from 26 May for six months, while works on walking, wheeling and cycling improvements in Bridge Street are set to start on the same date for…

Bath & North East Somerset Council is taking action to keep people safe on the Pulteney stretch of the River Avon in Bath by addressing unauthorised and dangerous mooring locations. Boat owners moored there will be supported to move their vessels by the middle of September this year as the moorings are not safe for…

The Chancellor and the Housing Secretary have backed plans for the country’s fastest-growing regional economy to soon become home to its first Mayoral Development Zone (MDZ), covering the West of England’s emerging new town: Brabazon and the West InnovationArc, in South Gloucestershire and north Bristol. Helen Godwin, Mayor of the West of England, set out…

A raft of new walking, wheeling and cycling improvements across Bath & North East Somerset are helping children enjoy safer, healthier journeys to school – just in time for Walk to School Week 2026. The council’s first ever School Street launched this week outside St Stephen’s Primary School, giving pupils a calmer, more pleasant start and end…

A new football cage at Royal Victoria Park, a sensory garden at Oldfield School and pedestrian safety improvements in Lambridge are among the community projects that will benefit from £270,260 in new funding. Following a consultation asking residents to help decide where the money should go, Bath & North East Somerset Council has allocated the…

Bath Cats and Dogs Home and BRACE Dementia Research are the latest charities to benefit from Bath & North East Somerset Council being a member of a national metal recycling scheme. The council has donated £8,500 to each charity, raised from the not-for-profit Recycling of Metals Scheme run by the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management…

UK — A courageous team of British ocean rowers is entering the final two-week countdown before flying out to the start line of a historic, world-first expedition. On June 1st, the four-person Brainwaves crew, proudly powered by headline sponsor Evolution Capital, will depart the UK for Western Australia, where they will begin a gruelling 5,500-mile,…

Councillor Shaun Stephenson-McGall has been elected as the new Chair of Bath & North East Somerset Council. Councillor Stephenson-McGall was first elected as a councillor in 1999, representing Oldfield Park Ward up until 2023 and is now the ward councillor for Timsbury. He served as Vice Chair last year, Chair in 2022-23 and Mayor of…