I keep coming back to this character pub as being amongst the best florally decorated businesses in Bath. You'll find the Coeur de Lion - reckoned to be Bath's smallest alehouse - in Northumberland Place, just off the High Street.

In their second Proms concert, the Berlin Phil brought Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (with Augustin Hadelich the virtuosic and breathtaking soloist), and a detailed and compelling take on Scriabin’s thi...

Bath's blessed with nearly as many museums as coffee shops, but l spent time yesterday visiting one which is a little out of the way. A modest little terraced Georgian townhouse from which astronomer William Herschel just happened to spot a new planet while out in the garden and surveying the heavens through his homemade telescope! Owned by Bath Preservation Trust and run as the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, it would seem the Trust has big plans for number 19 New King Street. More about that coming up.

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The misleading claim is being shared again after first appearing in 2024.

Posts warning about people going door-to-door posing as “Home Affairs Officers” have been circulating in countries all over the world for years. There’s no evidence it’s actually happening in the UK.

Time to spread the love a little further, I think so over we go to Bradford on Avon for news of a lecture series at the United Church in St Margaret’s Street. Here’s the release: The at…

That image was taken before the rains came, so well done to whoever kept those floral delights watered. You know what you can do with your plastic flowers!

Vaccination is one of the most effective and safest ways to protect against many serious infectious diseases

Helena Hodges writes: "Good afternoon, Richard I was uncertain who to tell this to, until my friend mentioned you! On my walk today up from Woolley to Charlcombe Farm, I was saddened to see that the old well has been buried in detritus  I attach pictures, one from Andrew Swift's book showing the well before the permitted road and mine from today. Hope you can highlight this and maybe it might be resurrected? Thank you." Thank you, Helena. Was this a health and safety issue? Does anyone know?

Helena Hodges writes: “Good afternoon, Richard I was uncertain who to tell this to, until my friend mentioned you! On my walk today up from Woolley to Charlcombe Farm, I was saddened to see t…

World Patient Safety Day poster

Cases of iatrogenic botulism have been reported following the therapeutic or cosmetic use of botulinum toxin containing products where the toxin’s effect extends beyond the area of treatment. Patients...

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and audiences ...

I am currently in London but was saddened to receive the following email from Dr Michael Pritchard. ”TG Jones, which was previously WH Smith, in Union Street, has signage up today announcing its closure. A shame but not unexpected. The concern though is what happens to the only post office in Bath city centre when TG Jones does close. It’s always busy. Located on the upper floor, it was part of WH Smith, when it took over a lot of post offices, and before that in Northgate Street.” Will another retail outlet offer post offices space?n

Notre Dame rises from the ashes thanks to the love and dévotion of all the skilled craftspeople who have worked on recreating what was and is such a symbol of Paris. So l cannot understand the ‘loc…

Actor Lena Headey on whatever happened to the #MeToo movement?

I recently came across a remarkable lady, Dolly Shepherd, who in later life settled and spent the last twenty years of her in Eastbourne.  She was christened Elizabeth Miriam, but everyone called her ...

Cases of iatrogenic botulism have been reported following the therapeutic or cosmetic use of botulinum toxin containing products where the toxin’s effect extends beyond the area of treatment. Patients...

Professor Nick Barber — pharmacist, academic and author of the new book How to take Drugs — in a sharp, eye-opening conversation about why medicines so often fail in the real world