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Lately, I’ve seen lorries around the old M&S and noticed clothing inside. Does anyone know if they’re opening something new there?

Hi! I’m starting a new job next week that requires me to be at work for 7:30. My best bet is the number 8 bus that leaves the bus station at 6:59. Does anyone know if that bus is reliable/timely? I would say a maximum of a 7 minute buffer would be the most time I could afford to lose.

Thanks!

Hi everyone! Just wondering if anyone has found a wallet in Larkhall today (Friday 9th October), around 4:30pm.

It belongs to a friend from Italy who’s visiting Bath for a few days.

We’d be incredibly grateful if the wallet could be returned, especially the ID, driving licence and other personal documents. Being a tourist in a foreign country without these documents is really stressful and complicated.

If anyone has found it or has any information, please send me a message. Even if the cards or money are gone, getting the personal documents back would mean a lot.

Thank you so much for any help!

Just got an email to say that the alterations to Victoria Park have been approved after a "consulation". The press release says it will make the park "safer and more accessible for all" without any elucidation of why a useless contraflow cycle lane will make us safer, and how a loss of parking spaces will make it more accessible for wheelchair users who presumably mostly have to drive to the park to enjoy it.

Nor does it mention the price tag.

I never thought I'd be the type of person to be infuriated by these kinds of schemes. I cycle regularly. I try to minimise my car use. I'm in favour of anti-car and pro-green, pro-pedestrian and pro-public transport policies. But the trouble is that all I see here is box checking: thousands and thousands of pounds spent just so the council can say "we've got X miles of cycle lane!" without any thought as to how useful those cycle lanes actually are.

Why on earth do we need a contraflow cycle lane in the park? Where's the demand? Who's going to use it? How much is it going to cost? Why couldn't we have actually useful cycle lanes along weston park, or the lower bristol road instead?

I assume that the roadworks along Green Park Road and Charles Street are also adding a cycle lane: that's what it looks like. That is, perhaps, at least a bit more useful but it's not felt like an unsafe place to cycle to me (as a cyclist) because the traffic isn't fast, and it looks like it's going to cause a horrific bottleneck for traffic coming over Midland Bridge. Has no thought been given to the knock-on effects of any of this at all?

We are looking for a weekend brunch spot. I don’t have a sweet tooth, so please no places where only pastries are served. We are ok with going a bit outside of town too.

Hi all. I am on the hunt for a dance studio/ community centre space/ room somewhere for me to book on an ad hoc basis of an evening (outside working hours of a week or whenever on a weekend) just to practice?

Where I live there isn’t much space and the only semi-affordable studios for private hire for a solo person to hire I’ve found are in Bristol. I am just wondering if there is anything closer to me (in Bath) that could be used for dance that anybody knows of?

I feel like Bath is lacking with these types of spaces / community centres etc but I would be very happy to be proven wrong !

Let me know if you have any ideas :)

Thanks