The Twerton Learning Centre at 89-90 High Street, Twerton, still has a few places left for the next digital photography course. This will be a 6 week course starting on 24th April, with classes to be held on Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. The cost of the course is £55.

The lessons will begin by covering the basics of digital photography, such as how to transfer photos from the camera to a computer. Then the focus will move on to methods of editing digital photos, such as cropping (digitally removing parts of the photo) and altering the colour balance. For more information, telephone 01225 355008.

Joe, 18/03/08

The White Horse Pub at Shophouse Road has purchased 109 small-sized chocolate eggs, ready for some egg hunts to take place on Easter Saturday - 22nd of March.

The chocolate eggs will be hidden around the premises of the White Horse, including the garden, in several sessions between 12 noon and 3pm. The egg hunts are for children aged over 3 and under 12.

Joe, 17/03/08

A planning application to demolish Blockbuster DVD and the Magic Wok takeaway in order to construct a four storey building in their place, has been withdrawn by the applicants Bayleigh Estates Ltd. You can read the Council letter confirming the withdrawal here.

Bayleigh Estates say that they will be resubmitting their planning application after making some amendments. You can see the Bath Chronicle article on this topic here: Halt to shop demolition.

Joe, 12/03/08

Bath City Football Club Community Group have started a series of free urban art workshops! Activities include human beatboxing, DJing, MCing and graffiti art.There will also be a Club Nite on the 18th of April in the Randall's community room at Bath City Football Club, from 7pm to 10pm. This will feature the 5 elements of hip-hop: live graffitti, breakdancing, DJing, beatboxing and MCing. The price for the club nite will be £1.50, paid at the door.

So if you're aged between 13 and 25 and you live in Twerton, why not check it out? For more information or to book your free place on a workshop, click here: www.twerton.com. Please pass on this information to anyone else who may be interested.

Multiple sources, 11/03/08

People of St Michael's Church actively expressed God's love for the community on Sunday, by gathering at Pennyquick Park to paint the play equipment, pick up litter and organise a five-a-side football tournament. The first arrivals began to sand down the old flaky paint on the swings, climbing frames, benches and other objects in the park, ready to apply bright new coats of paint.

A coach load of about forty young people from a Christian school at Monkton Combe turned up to help with the painting and litter picking. Many plastic refuse sacks were filled and a burnt out moped was dragged out of the bushes to be taken away.

While this was going on, seven teams of youngsters from Twerton and Whiteway came to enter the football tournament, and games were played using equipment lent by Bath City Football Club. Two Twerton teams played against each other in the final.

Joe, 10/03/08

Bath City Farm has organised a photography competition with 30th April as the deadline for entries to be sent in. Selected photos will be displayed in an exhibition for the Bath Fringe and the winning photos will be used to produce a set of new postcard for the farm. All photographs must have been taken at Bath City Farm. You can see some photos that Emily took in 2007 and 2008 here: farm animals.

Send all photos to Interface (printers who produce the farm's newsletter).

Interface
Units 2 & 3 Brasmill Enterprise Centre,
Bath BA1 3JN

Telephone: Damien 01225 331304
Send photos by email

Joe, 04/03/08

The Twerton Golden-Oldies group has met for it's second week in the community room at Quebec, Dominion Road. Golden-Oldies offers people aged around 50 onwards a great time singing hit songs of the 50s, 60s and 70s. About 15 people turned up to sing lyrics by Abba, the Kinks, Shirley Bassey and other well known groups, and Jackie the warden hopes to go on attracting individuals to the weekly session.

Golden-Oldies groups first started in January, in community rooms provided by Somer Community Housing Trust. They soon attracted media attention from around the world following several reports by the BBC. The group at the Blagdon Park Community Centre in Whiteway was the first to be established.

Golden-Oldies sessions are held in Blagdon Park Community Centre, Whiteway, on Monday mornings from 10.30am to 11.30am. Also at Quebec, Twerton, on Thursday afternoons from 2.30pm to 3.30pm.

Joe, 06/03/08

Residents of Twerton are staunchly resisting a planning application by Somer Housing to build houses and flats on a grassy stretch of land that lies adjacent to Bath City Farm, The Hollow and the Cotswold View cul-de-sac. Objections to the application include the point that the housing development would consume a significant part of the green hillside which can be seen for miles around, and that it would be undesirable to construct more buildings so close to the Bath City Farm amenity.

Twerton Councillors Tim Ball and Gerry Curran have set up a petition against the proposed development that people can sign over the internet. You will find a link to the petition on their Twerton blog here. In 2006 Bath City Farm tried to purchase the plot of land in question, with the aim of turning it into a community allotment. Unfortunately they were totally outbid.

Joe, 03/03/08