Bath Echo

1 week ago | bathecho.co.uk | Becky Feather

B&NES Council has approved detailed repair work to a Georgian column at the Thermae Bath Spa after it was severely damaged by a lorry during the Christmas Market. The column is at the front of the spa in Hot Bath Street and is part of the Grade II* listed Old Royal Baths complex. On 6th December, a delivery lorry reversed into the column, causing significant fracturing and the loss of about 8.2cms of the column’s stonework.

1 week ago | bathecho.co.uk | Becky Feather

Plans to knock down a Batheaston house and replace it with an “attractive, energy-efficient and sustainable family home” have been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council. Bookcroft at 15 Seven Acres Lane is said to be “too small, inaccessible and impractically laid out internally to meet modern living standards”.

1 week ago | bathecho.co.uk | Becky Feather

Essential safety repairs on the A36 Warminster Road at Limpley Stoke are over-running, with two-way traffic lights needing to remain in place until the end of June. National Highways has this month given an update on the £5 million project to stabilise the embankment next to the southbound carriageway. Work began last August after cracks appeared in a footpath, and the scheme was scheduled to last until the spring.

1 week ago | bathecho.co.uk | Becky Feather

The Bath city centre policing team have carried out drug trace testing at Labyrinth Nightclub. On the evening of Friday, 16th May, assisted by police colleagues from the outlying areas of the city, the team carried out the operation at the club at North Parade. Such operations are designed to detect and prevent drugs commonly used in drink-spiking. More than 50 people were tested entering the venue, none of whom returned any trace for drugs.

1 week ago | bathecho.co.uk | Becky Feather

A Waitrose customer tried to provoke a security guard at the Bath store into a fight and hurled a racial slur at him, magistrates heard. On 18th June last year, Julian Rouse was said to appear “intoxicated”, was refusing to leave the store in The Podium as requested and was “squaring up” to staff. He took off his jumper and tried to goad a security guard into a fight, calling him a “black b*stard”. Rouse’s actions were caught on CCTV.