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_lsjvtl I can’t believe it’s February already.

This year seems to be just flying by.

It doesn’t seem long ago that I was packing away the Christmas decorations and now we’re gearing up for Valentine’s Day. If you’re stuck for ideas for a gift for your loved one why not visit Nicholas Wylde’s shop in Northumberland Place which reopened earlier this week. 2013 was an eventful year for the Bath jeweller. Not only did he celebrate 25 years in business, but he also created his own diamond, won a host of accolades and dealt with the aftermath of the fire which devastated his shop. He even

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You can read more about Nicholas and his work on our fashion pages this week. Next week we’ll be giving you even more ideas on how to make your Valentine’s Day extra special, so make sure you don’t miss it!

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City jeweller celebrates 25 years of sparkles

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t wouldn’t be a cliché to say that Nicholas Wylde has had a glittering career. Last year the Bath-based jeweller celebrated 25 years in business and to mark the special anniversary he created his own diamond.

Every Wylde Flower Diamond has 89 precisely cut facets, including eight perfectly cut on the base, which reveals a stunning flower as you look through the diamond, and the design means that it sparkles even more.

Nicholas said: “I always wanted my own diamond but I didn’t think it was achievable.

“I knew I wanted to celebrate the 25th anniversary with something very special and I was talking to one of my dealers in Antwerp, and he said that he had just cut a stone which was a bit different and perhaps we could work together.

“We tweaked it and registered the brand and since then we have not looked back.

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“We have had a huge response to it and I love working with it.

“Not many people have their own diamond so I have something very special.”

It is coloured gems that are Nicholas’ real passion, however.

“I love colour,” he said. “Diamonds don’t really do very much for me to be honest which is why I designed my own, but with a coloured stone I get really passionate.”

His latest design, the Phoenix collection, inspired by the fire that devastated his shop last year, indulges his love of bright stones and incorporates rubies, diamonds and fire opals.

“I actually started doodling this collection a few months before the fire,” admits Nicholas. “I am always looking around me for inspiration

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and I saw this combination of stones on a client.

“When the fire happened, I knew I had to create the collection and it is something positive to come out of an awful situation.”

During his career Nicholas has scooped a whole host of awards and accolades, including a coveted spot in Professional Jeweller magazine’s annual listing of the Hot 100 UK jewellery professionals in 2013.

He believes the key to his success is his entrepreneurial spirit and desire to push boundaries, a philosophy which he has had since he first opened in Northumberland Place.

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“The jewellery trade was very old fashioned 25 years ago, and when I opened I was like a breath of fresh air,” said Nicholas.

“I looked fresh and new, and my window displays were very modern. I had a PDQ machine to take card sales and a computer, when at the time only about five per cent of jewellers had computers.

“To this day I have tried to stay at the forefront of the industry and I have won awards, because I was an entrepreneur bringing things to the table that other shops had not done before.

“I believe that you should not stand still. If you stand

still you start moving backwards – there is always room for improvement.”

Nicholas’ latest innovation is Wylde Art, a project which combines precious stones and fine art.

“I had been thinking about bringing jewellery to the next level,” said Nicholas.

“You can be wearing a beautiful piece of jewellery but you never see it unless you look in the mirror.

“Wylde Art is for the woman, or man, who has enough jewellery but who has art and has money to invest.

“We try to make the fashion, not follow it.”

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reams have fascinated us for centuries. As far back as 3000 BC they were documented on clay tablets, and countless philosophers and scientists have tried to explain their meaning.

Our curiosity – and belief that they ‘mean’ things – still endures. A recent survey by ibis Hotels found that a third of under-35s let their dreams guide them, while one-in-five claimed they’d made a life-changing decision based on a dream.

Dream psychologist and author of Top 100 Dreams, Ian Wallace has no doubt that our slumber-induced visions are meaningful.

“We use dreams as a sense-making process,” says Wallace, who has analysed more than 170,000 dreams during his three-decade career. “Every day, we absorb millions of pieces of information unconsciously that we can’t consciously process.

“Dreaming has evolved as a way of making sense of experiences and emotions that occur during the day.

“These emotions are symbolised through language and imagery. For example, if our subconscious mind is focused on achieving a goal, our brain might highlight the word ‘pursuit‘, which could lead to chase dreams.

“I always say to my clients, a dream’s just a dream until you put it into

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Dreams can be bizarre and baffling, but unlocking their meaning could be a useful for waking life, as dream psychologist Ian Wallace tells Abi Jackson

action,” says Wallace.

‘Action’ is simply listening to what your subconscious is revealing about your true emotions – and using that understanding to create solutions.

To do this, we need to remember our dreams. Wallace has a tip: “Before you go to sleep, tell yourself, ‘I will remember my dreams’. Then as soon as you wake up, lie completely still.

As soon as you start moving your muscles, brain chemistry changes and this causes the dream imagery to start disappearing. Then, as the dream comes back to you, fill in the gaps.”

Five most common dreams 1: Being chased “This means there’s something in waking life that you’re in pursuit of, that you’re unsure about. Just turn around and ask your pursuer who they are and what they need.”

2: Teeth falling out “Teeth symbolise power and confidence. This means in waking life your feelings of power and confidence

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are somehow diminished. So the action is to take control of a situation.”

3: Can’t find a toilet “This is all about tending to your needs. Sometimes you need to say, ‘No, I need to look after this for myself first, and then I’ll look after you.”

4: Naked or semi-naked in public This is all about feeling exposed, or worrying about becoming exposed.

To show your talents in life, you have to open up and be vulnerable.”

5: Unprepared for an exam “People who have this dream may be a little too self-critical in real life, and too judgemental. So the action here is to celebrate your talents.” :: For more information about Ian Wallace visit ianwallacedreams.com.

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“Nothing acts more like a tonic for the hung-over soul than a jolly good tidy,” says Barbara Genda, founder and principal designer at Barbara Genda Bespoke Furniture.

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and mess causes us untold stress. Stuffed cupboards, dishevelled drawers, haphazardly strewn and displaced possessions without a designated ‘living’ space all culminates into a loud,

unrelenting visual ‘noise’ that can make us feel boxed-in, overwhelmed and even anxious.”

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The moustachioed hob god is opening his latest venture at The County Hotel on Pulteney Road in Bath this month. Martin became a fixture on the Bath culinary scene in the 1990s with his restaurant Lettonie, which earned two Michelin stars.

But in 2001 he closed the restaurant, and while he and his family have continued to live in Bath, Martin’s career took him away from the city. For the past ten years he has been overseeing kitchens in hotels and restaurants around the country, and forging a TV career, appearing on shows such as Saturday Kitchen and Iron Chef UK. Now he is looking forward to bringing the Blunos brand back to Bath.

Simply named Blunos, the new restaurant will be dedicated to serving fresh fish and seafood, and Martin says it will be very different from Lettonie.

“This is bringing me home,” he said.

“I am known in Bath – I had two stars which was a big achievement for me.

“But this is not Lettonie. That was what it was, but it belongs back in that time.

“That worked then, but we’ve moved on. Not only Bath, but the world is a different place now.

“Hindsight and history are lovely things but we don’t know what’s round the corner.

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“It’s very exciting because this place has never been a restaurant, so people won’t be comparing it to what was here before.

“Blunos will be serving almost only fish. There will be one meat dish, and one vegetarian, but that is it.

“It will be a short menu, and it will be decided by what we get in that day.

“If we only have turbot, halibut and red mullet then that’s what we have. We’re also going to do Fruits de Mer and lobster and chips.

“It will be a bit of fun for the kitchen and the menu will be written every day.

“The furthest you are ever from the sea in Britain is about 80 miles and we are a damn sight closer than that here. We will be getting our fish up from Looe and Plymouth, oysters from Sussex and smoked fish from Chew Valley Lake.

“It will all be seasonal and local where we can. But only if it is the best.

“People put a lot of emphasis on local produce but I don’t believe you should use local just for the sake of it. It should be the best.”

And while many chefs adorn their dishes with foams and gels, and scatterings of micro herbs, Martin says he will be letting the ingredients speak for themselves.

“I have done all the playing around and the pretty-pretties,” he said. “It can be form over function. Micro herbs get thrown over everything these days but they just cover everything

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“If you have an amazing piece of fish, the last thing you want to do is mess around with it.

“I’m just trying to be a bit more honest with it all.

“I’m sure there are lots of chefs who will say I’m not showing my skills but the skill is in the buying.

“If you buy the best then you don’t want to hide the ingredients.

“Comfort food works because it brings back memories and that’s what we want to do here.

“If people can talk about eating an amazing plate of grilled Dover Sole then that’s much more satisfying than someone remembering just how it looked.”

Martin is also keen to emphasise that the restaurant will be relaxed and informal.

“We’re moving away from flunkies and that sort of thing,” he said. “We want people to just come in and have a good time.

“What we are giving is the best of what we have got.

“It’s all accessible. You can come in and just have a glass of champagne and a couple of oysters, or you can have the whole lot.

“Going to a restaurant is not just going out for food, it is a great night out, and we want people to enjoy themselves.

“If someone comes in wearing jeans and a T-shirt and that’s how they feel relaxed, then that’s fine.

“If you’re feeling hot and uncomfortable you won’t enjoy your food, so what’s the point in that?

“We want it to be very much ‘it is what it is’ with a house party feel.”

And although Bath is almost bursting at the seams with restaurants, Martin is confident that there is space for Blunos.

“I’m not worried about diluting the restaurant scene at all,” he said.

“If you are doing something good then there’s a place for you.

“I was born in Peasedown St John and grew up in Thornbury, so it’s nice to be working back home.

“It is exciting times ahead and I’m really looking forward to it.”

Blunos is due to open on Wednesday, February 19.

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our years ago, Amy Williams stood at the top of an ice track in Canada with the hopes of a bleary-eyed nation back home resting on her shoulders. People were glued to their television screens in the wee small hours, while her local pub, The Pulteney Arms, was packed to the rafters with friends and family, as a former pupil of Hayesfield and Beechen Cliff schools prepared to write her name into the British sporting history books.

She didn’t let them down, blowing the opposition away to become the women’s skeleton champion at Vancouver 2010 and her country’s first female individual gold medal at a Winter Games for 58 years.

Nerves of steel were required – they are pretty much a prerequisite when you are throwing yourself down an icy chute at 90mph with only a tiny sled for company – but Williams was more than equal to the task. Her prize acted as a golden ticket to all the best shows in town for some time afterwards and changed her life forever.

Now 31 and retired from skeleton, she will be trying to keep butterflies of a different kind at bay when the 2014 Games begin in Sochi, Russia, tomorrow.

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On the eve of the Winter Olympics, Neil Beck talks to Amy Williams who won gold at the Games and a place in the nation’s hearts four years ago As a key player in the BBC’s coverage of the Games, fronted by Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards, Williams will be back in the spotlight and with too much on her plate to think about pining for the sport that shot her to stardom.

“I’m the new kid on the block and have an awful lot to learn,” said Williams,

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who was raised and still lives in Bath.

“There are a lot of good people working with me, so I’m very aware that they have been doing it for a long time and I have no real media training at all behind me.

“There is a four-hour time difference and we have a show going out in the early evening, so they will be quite long days for us, I think. I will be concentrating on skeleton, bobsleigh and maybe luge as well, but am hoping I can catch up with some of the other events while I’m out there.”

“I will just try and be me, and try to make a good impression. I’m hoping that I can give a real athletes’ perspective on things and pass on to the television viewers how the athletes might be feeling at any given time.”

Never one to turn down an invitation to try something new, Williams has embraced the challenges and opportunities that have come her way since her unforgettable

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Her sporting career and any lingering hopes of a title defence in Sochi were curtailed by injury in 2012 and it is Lizzy Yarnold – who rents a house from Williams in the city – and Shelley Rudman who will fly the flag for Team GB this time around.

Williams, meanwhile, gained a coveted

co-driver’s licence in order to compete alongside Tony Jardine at Rally GB in November, has satisfied her need for speed on Top Gear and faced fears of a different kind in shows such as Alone in the Wild and 71 Degrees North.

She has also become a firm favourite on both A Question of Sport and A League of Their Own and last week coached celebrities including Kimberley Wyatt, Melinda Messenger and Sir Steve Redgrave for the skeleton aspect of Channel 4’s The Jump.

Williams is not resting on her laurels, however, and admits she does not know what the future holds much beyond her Sochi commitments.

“I do like a challenge but I also need a job to pay the bills,” she said. “I’d like to do more adventure shows and I just need

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to hope the work keeps coming in and that the Winter Olympics might help me fill my diary again.

“We’ll have to see how it goes. I am certainly not one to sit in an office and am more interested in doing more talks – after-dinner and motivational stuff.

“I think the big change post-Olympics for me was that London 2012 happened. All of a sudden people wanted athletes who competed at London to do things.

“It is only in the last month or two that we have seen a shift back to winter athletes from our summer cousins.

“Let’s hope Team GB are really successful again and that the media attention stays around for a while afterwards too.”

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My life in the Airlines, speaker Brenda Parry, 7.30pm. Parish Pavilion, Box

Free fun and support for parents with under-1s, 10am-noon. Barnardo’s Children’s Centre, Kings Avenue, Corsham

Corsham Knitting & Crochet Group

Bath Geological Society

Group meeting, 10am-noon.

Community Centre, Corsham

Dr Doug Robinsons, AGM, Geological Evolution of a Gneiss Dome, 7.30pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

Boxlea WI

Bradford on Avon & District Flower Club Hands on Evening, 7.30pm. Holt Village Hall, Holt

Golden Oldies 2.30-3.30pm. Community Room, St John’s Road, Bathwick, Bath

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Bath Branch For all levels, 1.30-4.30pm.

Bathampton Village Hall

Golden Oldies

Mr Wilkins’ Shilling Women’s Northwest Morris

2.30-3.30pm. Quebec, off Dominion Road, Twerton, Bath

8-10pm. Methodist Church Hall, Northend, Batheaston. New

dancers always welcome. 01225 869086

High Street, Bath. 01225 310326

Bath Good Afternoon Choir

Knit Club at Great British Yarns

No auditions, everyone welcome, 2-4pm. Argyle Hall, Central URC, Grove Street, Bath. £2.85

Daytime Singing Group 11am-12.30pm. Rush Hill United Reformed Church, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath.

07592 016878

Rubber Bridge (ACOL) 2-6pm hosted by Dennis Bernard in Weston. Stake 50p a hundred. 01225 484523

Bath Bridge Club Duplicate Bridge with Masterpoints, 7.15pm. Bath Football Club Rooms, Twerton

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Unit 9, Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath.

01225 462776

Songways Community Choir Fun, rewarding and open to all, 10am-noon, term time. St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, Bath. £8. songways.co.uk

Bath Spa Band Brass players and percussionists welcome. Rehearsals 8-10pm.

Elim Pentecostal Church, Charlotte Street, Bath

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Box Bridge Club

Friendly duplicate, 7-10.15pm.

Parish Pavilion, Box

Memory Cafe 2-4pm, professionals available to assist with any information, signposting with any concerns about memory loss and/or dementia. Hawthorns Court, Extra Care Scheme, Keynsham

Articulate Arts and Craft Group Meeting A wide variety of arts and crafts available for beginners and more experienced crafters, 6-9pm. Hillside Hall, Hillside Road, Oldfield Park, Bath. £3 per meeting

Herschel/Astronomy Dr Gary Mathlin, The Big Bang and After, 7.30pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

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Rubber Bridge (ACOL) Hosted by Dennis Bernard, stake 50p a hundred, 2-6pm. 01225 484523

Box WI

The work of hearing dogs for deaf people, speaker Dr David Ball, 2.30pm. Selwyn Hall, Box

Reiki Courses Weekly 10am & 4pm. Corsham area. To book, call 01249 715179

Bath & District Advanced Motorists

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Associates lecture followed by Chris Gilbert’s DVD Night Driving, 7.30pm. Wessex Water, Claverton Down, Bath

WEA Box Group

Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Novel, Mrs Dalloway, 10.30am-4.30pm. Selwyn Hall, Box. For details Hilary Foord, 01225 742708

Bath Centre National Trust Lecture Talk entitled Post World War II Architecture in Bath, speaker Lyndon Hughes, 2.30pm.

Salvation Army Citadel, Green Park Road, Bath

Second Saturday Cafe Coffee, pastries & papers, 10am-noon, supporting Langridge Church. Langridge Village Hall, Bath

Golden Oldies Community Room, St Nicholas Court, Bathampton, Bath

Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Walk

Beaufort TG

Old Sodbury, 5hrs, 9 miles. To Badminton and back via Horton.

Start at Old Sodbury Church at 10am

Low Intensity Laser Therapy, speaker Pending, 10.30am.

Pulteney Room, Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath. 01225 444726

Children’s Science Workshop

Barnardo’s Soft Play Session

Crazy Chemistry with Doctor Dave, 1-4pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath. For children over 8 years, £6 per workshop per person

Free fun for under-5s and their families, 1.30-2.30pm. Springfield Leisure Centre, Corsham. 01249 716254

Crafty Saturday Crafty workshop with Mazy Bartlett, The Corsham School’s artist in residence, join in the fun, get creative and get messy, noon-2pm. Free, no ticket required. The Pound, Pound Pill, Corsham

Table Top Sale 8.20am-noon, Bric-a-brac, books etc. Weston Parish Hall, Weston, Bath. Free admission

Cercle Francaise De Bath Edouard Manet, entre classicisme et modernité, Elisabeth le Doze, 2.15-3.45pm.

BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath.

Visitors £5/BRLSI £2.50/Students £1

Bath Cycling Club 9.15am from Cadence Bike Shop, Chelsea Road, Bath and take in a circular route of 25 easy miles

Bath Organic Community Garden Beginners and experienced gardeners welcome, 10am-1pm.

Royal Victoria Park, Bath. 01225 311699

Nature Club/Daycare Animals to care0 for and enjoy plenty of countryside activities for 8s and over, 10am-4pm.

Carlingcott, nr Peasedown. To book 07595034383

Reiki Courses Weekly For all levels, 2 day courses. Reiki Treatment also available, 10am & 4pm. Corsham area. To book 01249 715179

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Salsa Classes Complete beginners, 8pm. No need to bring a partner.

Revolution, George Street, Bath. £7/£5

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Bath Saturday Antiques Flea Market Antiques, collectibles and vintage clothes, 7.30am-5.30pm. Walcot St, Bath

Green Park Market 9am-4.pm including Baths Farmers’ Market 9am-1.30pm.

Green Park Station, Bath

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Bath Cycling Club Lydeway Manor Farm, Shop, 9am. Club run starts from Cleveland Bridge, aim to return by 1-1.30pm. 01225 426467 or 07944550933

Dry Arch Growers Bathampton Community co-op producing food for the local area. Volunteers and helpers required, 11am-4pm. End of Holcombe Lane, Bathampton.

07972 564641

Spiritualist Meeting 6.30pm service. Corston Village Hall, Sanctuary of the Cross Spiritualist Church

Treatment also available, 10am & 4pm. Corsham area. To book 01249 715179

Monday Poetry Group

Dawn Gorman, convenor of the Bradford poetry group, Words and Ears with readings from her new book This Meeting of Tracks, 7.30pm. St James Wine Vaults Gallery, Julian Road, Bath

Bath Women’s Probus For the retired and semi-retired, 10.30am-noon. St Lukes Church Hall, Wellsway, Bath. 01225 463697 for details

Golden Oldies 10.30-11.30am. Community Room, Blagdon Park, Whiteway, Bath

Golden Oldies 2.30-3.30pm. Community Room, St John’s Close, Peasedown St John, Bath

HumBugs Singing Group

Cross keys, Midford Road, Bath 8pm. In aid of Dorothy House

Love to sing? Bring your baby or toddler along too! 9.30-10.30am term-time only. St Saviour’s Church, Larkhall, Bath. 07940 597427

Reiki Courses Weekly

Masonic Museum

For all levels, 2 day courses. Reiki

Guided tours throughout the

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year, also on Wed and Thurs, 11am or 2.30pm. Sat 2.30pm only. 12 Old Orchard Street, Bath. 01225 462233

2nd Bath Girls Brigade Meet every Monday, 6.30-8pm.

The Ascension Church, Oldfield Park, Bath. 01761 416515

Bath Spa Band Brass players and percussionists welcome. Rehearsals 8-10pm.

Elim Pentecostal Church, Charlotte Street, Bath

Social Bridge 1.30 for 1.45pm (not bank holidays). Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath. 01225 310232

Bradford Bridge Club 7Come and play duplicate bridge, 7-10pm. The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon. 01225 865669 or 01225 863072

Meditation Classes in Bath 7-8.30pm. John Williams Room, United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bath. £6 per class

How as humans we experience certain kinds of problems, 8pm.

The Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Bath Branch For all levels, 7.30-9.30pm. Ralph Allen School, Bath

Meditation on Twin Hearts 7.45-9pm. Funky Monkey Studio, 18 St Peters Terrace, Lower Bristol Road, Bath. 07516 500 569

Quilting Bee Quilting groups from all over the region demonstrate their talents in the Textiles Room, noon-4pm. American Museum, Claverton Down, Bath

Singing for the Brain Singing to bring people with dementia and their carers together, 2.30-4pm. St John’s, Combe Park, Bath. 07540 921035

Songways Community Choir

Sing & Smile Creative Links Singing Group

10am-noon, term time. St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, Bath. £8. songways.co.uk

2-4pm. United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bath.

01761 438852 to book

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Bath Organic Community Garden

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Barnardo’s Play Session Messy and sensory play for under-5s and their families, 10.30-11.30am, Crumpets Cafe, Rudloe, Corsham. 01249 716254

Two afternoon sessions, 1.40pm start. Venue at Bath Football Club Rooms, Twerton High Street, Bath

7-9pm, £2 including a raffle, Weston Parish Hall, Weston Village, Bath

Beginners and experienced gardeners welcome, 10am-1pm.

Victoria Park, Bath. 01225 311699

Art Group Age UK B&NES 10am-noon. St Michaels Centre, St Michaels Place, Bath. £1.50 per session. 01225 484510

Sahaja Yoga Free meditation, 7.30-9pm. 2nd floor URC Halls, Grove Street, Bath

Bridge Club

1.15-4.30pm. Village Hall,

Duplicate Bridge with Masterpoints, start 7.15pm. Bath Football Club Rooms, Twerton High Street, Bath. 01225 310326

Wednesday Combe Down WI

Organic Beauty, speaker Sian Hendra, 2pm. Trinity Rooms, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath.

01225 837646

Mind and its Potential Explore questions through talks, discussions and meditations about the mind with Andy Wistreich. New Oriel Hall,

Scottish Country Dancing For beginners and improvers, 7.30-9.30pm. New Oriel Hall, Larkhall, Bath. 01225 319991 for details

Drop-In Meditation An opportunity to learn a simple type of meditation which helps finds a calm space in the midst of our busy lives, 10.30am. Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath. £3. 07966 365633

Social Duplicate Bridge 7.15pm. Randalls (Bath City FC) Twerton Park, Bath. All welcome, visitors table money is £4

Bradford Bridge Club Come and play duplicate bridge, 7-10pm. The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon. 01225 865669/863072

Boules/Petanque 11am to 1pm Queen Square (off when raining). Just turn up and play

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Knit Club at Great British Yarns 10.30am-12.30pm. Unit 9, Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath. 01225 462776

Greensprouts Parent and Toddler Session 10am-noon. Laurel Farm, Carlingcott, nr Peasedown. £3 a session. 01761 420204

Bath Welcome Choir No auditions, 7.45-9.30pm.

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Night of the haggis Bath Rugby celebrated the life of the Scottish baird Robert Burns with a special Burns Night Supper in the Clubhouse.

The event was supported by The Famous Grouse Whisky and 3663 food service.

Catering students from the City of Bath college, planned, prepared, cooked and served the entire Scottish-themed menu, which was enjoyed greatly by all those who attended.

The event provided good experience for the students and the work was an important part of their course.

A charity raffle was held, and all proceeds were presented to Tris Broadwith from Bath West Rotary and The Rotary Foundation charity.

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TV and film actor Kenny Doughty, 38, plays Gaz in the current stage version – a role made famous by Robert Carlyle. The musical opened in Sheffield last year and is beautifully written by Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) who wrote the original screenplay.

The story is close to home for Kenny.

He grew up in Barnsley, near Sheffield, and remembers collecting for the miners during Thatcher’s privatisation crusade.

“Both my grandfathers worked down the pits,” Kenny recalls. “Back then men had a job for life. Their whole identity was inextricably tied up with their work.

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As well as highlighting socio-political issues, The Full Monty is best-known for showing ordinary men getting their kit off; a metaphor for the characters’ new-found sense of identity and self-confidence.

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I’d read Kenny’s mum had packed a coach-load of friends and family to see the production in Manchester.

“Yes, that’s true,” he admits. “It was quite daunting! My mum’s been four times now.”

Is there a lot of camaraderie in the production?

“We’ve got a fantastic crew and cast.

Everybody has an important story to tell, so we all pull in and support and respect each other, which I think comes across.”

Kenny’s real-life wife Caroline Carver also plays his on-stage partner. Does that bring an authenticity to their roles?

“Yes, especially with the boys who play our sons. They see us as a couple, not just pretending to be together.”

They first hooked up years ago, collecting scripts from their agent’s office during a postal strike.

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coffee with me and it all began from there,” Kenny laughs. “Thank God for postal strikes!”

The couple have since acted together in the movies My First Wedding, and The Aryan Couple, for which Kenny won Best Actor at the Palm Beach Film Festival.

Wanting a change of scene, they went to LA in 2010, originally to house sit, but liked the city so much they stayed.

“We got Green Cards and never looked back. Ironically, though, I keep getting work in Europe, says Kenny.”

Has he met Robert Carlyle?

“No, but my friend Josh Dallas stars with him in Once Upon A Time, and relays messages. Rob’s wished me good luck.”

Joined on stage by Simon Rouse (The Bill), Craig Gazey (Coronation Street) and Kieran O’Brien, Gaz has clearly enjoyed the positive audience reaction.

“It’s been amazing, unbelievable, really.

By the end the nudity is just part of the story – the audience feels the emotional impact of the boys’ journey.”

The Full Monty is at the Theatre Royal Bath until Saturday February 15. Tickets are available from the Box Office on 01225 448844 or at www.theatreroyal.org.uk.

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Ustinov Monmouth Street, Bath Box Office 01225 448844 To Fri Feb 7 Bluebeard Bluebeard invites you to join

Award-winning comedian Jo Caulfield hits town this week with her brand new show Celebration of Anger, a performance that explores things that irritate, annoy and irk – and embraces the joys of getting angry about them, no matter how petty they are to others.

“I’m a great believer in letting rip and expressing my anger,” says Jo, “whether it’s prompted by someone being rude, the ridiculous romantic rituals my friends are following, or life in general.

I love to have a good rant – it’s the only sensible approach most of the time.

“Let’s face, it so many things are annoying or unnecessarily silly that if you don’t stop to laugh at them they may very well drive you up the wall.”

Finding the funny in the frustrations of life is something Jo excels at – hence her regular appearances on many TV and radio panel shows, including Mock The Week and Have I Got News for You. But the acclaimed comedian is the first to admit that getting mad doesn’t always mean getting even, “on more than one occasion my anger has backfired and got me into trouble” she admits.

“How much trouble? You’ll have to some and see the show to find out.”

Jo Caulfield’s Celebration of Anger will be on at Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath, on Saturday night at 8pm.

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Tickets £13/£10 Wed 12-Thurs Feb 13 Visitors Visitors takes a haunting, beautiful look at the way our lives slip past us, 8pm. Tickets £13/£10

the egg Sawclose, Bath Tel: 01225 448844 To Fri Feb 7 Insight-direction This is the first time insight theatre will showcase young writers and directors at the egg.

Not suitable for Under 12s,

7pm. Tickets £7.50/£5 Sat Feb 8 If The Shoe Fits Performers bring shoes and their stories to life using physical theatre, dance, storytelling and music, age 3+, 11.30am & 3pm.

Tickets £7.50/£6.50

Mission Theatre Corn Street, Bath Tel: 01225 463362 Wed Feb 12 Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years A moving and powerful live performance and multimedia show that takes a chronological journey through the friendship and career of singers Simon & Garfunkel, 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£10

The Rondo Larkhall, Bath Tel: 01225 333844 To Sat Feb 8 At the Forest’s Edge The face of each fairy tale is an entertaining story, but beyond that first glance, they each serve as a warning or a lesson worth learning, 8pm. Tickets £10/£8 Wed Feb 12 My Romantic History Theatre, 8pm. Tickets £12/£10

Komedia 22 to 23 Westgate Street, Bath. Box office 0845 293 8480 Thurs Feb 6 Festival of The Spoken Nerd Comedy, 8pm. Tickets

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£22.50/£15/£13 Fri Feb 7 Lee Hurst: Things That Make You Go Aaarggh Stand-up comic, 8pm. Tickets £26.50/£16/£14 Sat Feb 8 Krater Comedy Club Comedy, 8.30pm. Tickets £45/£28.50/£18/£14.50/£10

ICIA University of Bath Bath University ICIA Arts Theatre Box office 01225 386777 Mon Feb 10-Wed April 16 Art Classes in Bath A range of exciting and eclectic classes and workshops, aged 16+.

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Get fabba-ulous at The Forum Celebrating the 40th anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision triumph, hit stage show Thank You for the Music is coming to Bath Forum on Saturday, March 29.

An all-new, spandex and sequins spectacular is promised for 2014. The cast will take live music fans back to 1974, to the night when Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida arrived as pop music superstars by winning the Eurovision Song Contest with their self-composed song Waterloo.

They were that night’s glittering winners – ABBA literally lit up the

Brighton Dome, sparkling in sequins and tottering about in silver 6in-heel platform boots ... and that was just Bjorn and Benny!

The win catapulted ABBA to worldwide fame – Waterloo was a number one hit in ten countries and even a top ten hit in the States.

In addition to releasing singles and albums that chalked up worldwide sales totalling 370 million, there followed a record-breaking movie, a smash-hit West End musical and now Thank You for the Music.

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London-based Whales In Cubicles will be playing tracks from their highly anticipated debut album Death In The Evening, at Moles in Bath tonight.

Since releasing the debut single We Never Win in 2012 they've carved out a distinctive niche within the UK music scene.

Described by The Fly as "Surly and melodic ... sounds like Stephen Malkmus kicking out the jams with Weezer", the band create complex but minimalist soundscapes that owe more to ’90s alternative rock than psychedelia.

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The ultimate tribute concert show revives all of ABBA’s chart topping hits, including Dancing Queen, Super Trouper, Mamma Mia, Thank You for the Music, Take A Chance on Me, The Winner Takes It All, Chiquitita, I Have A Dream, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Waterloo.

Now in their fabba-ulous 21st year, the superb, all-star cast have entertained the nation with Lycra-tight harmonies and superb musicianship for longer than Bjorn, Agnetha, Benny and Frida did during the 70s and 80s, according to show producer Michael Taylor.

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Iford Arts organise the annual festival in the garden and in the tiny cloisters and regularly bring to the venue some of the top names in opera, jazz and classical music.

As part of the anniversary festivities they are organising a special season of Italian opera.

The music of Puccini’s intimate study of female motivation La Rondine or The Swallow is a heartstring-puller perhaps even more so than his better known operas.

With the dream casting of Ilona Domnich as Magda and James Edwards as her lover the new show looks like being a real crowd pleaser.

Jeff Clarke and Opera della Luna follow with Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment.

For this Jeff will bring his own

inimitable and hilarious slant to the new production.

Opera Della Luna’s new version of Donizetti’s opera comique tells the old story but in a brand new setting.

The third operatic production is a fast paced and tender study of family reconciliation with Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses.

Under the direction of the internationally acclaimed Christian Curnyn, Justin Way and Kimm Kovac this is an up to the minute version of one of the world’s oldest operas.

If opera is not your style how about Molotov Jukebox? Or Polkaholix from Berlin or Mabon from Wales?

These party like prom evenings offer the chance to picnic in the garden and listen to handpicked bands from the best of the British summer festival scene.

General booking opens on March 3 but you can see more at www.ifordarts.org.uk You can book through the Theatre Royal Bath box office but this time the theatre will be charging a booking or handling fee for all transactions say Iford Arts.

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The album was recorded at Stage 2 Studios in Bath over the past few months and features several local musicians.

The album cover is a portrait of James that was painted by Bath artist Malcolm Ashman.

The album artwork was designed by local graphic designer Matt Robertson.

The album features songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter, The Smiths and one of James Lambeth’s own originals.

Lambeth said: “I’ve chosen some of my favourite songs that I’ve been performing in and around Bath and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

“There has been a lot of demand for my music.

“People have often asked me at gigs for albums so I thought this would be a great way to share some of these songs.”

The album will be available at the launch on Sunday evening at Gascoyne Place in Bath, from 8pm.

Admission is free.

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A mix of new and classic Indie rock and pop, 9.30pm. Moles, Bath. £4/£3

Acoustic Oak Music Club 8pm, Spotlight night. Floor Spots. The Royal Oak, Corsham.

Entry £2

Bath Cantata Group Evening practices, 7.45pm. New singers welcome. St Stephen’s

Church, Lansdown, Bath

Karaoke With DJ Jay, 8pm-3am.

Mandalyns, Fountain Buildings, Bath

’ Vaults, Bath. Tickets £5/£4

Tomorrow Implode Live Music Night

Sunday

The Derrick Oldroyde Trio plus Special Guest

8.30pm every Friday. Belushis, Bath

Martin Genge, saxophones & flute, 8.30pm. The Inn at Freshford

Live Music

Jazz at The Vaults

Every Friday from 9pm. The Huntsman Inn, Bath

Open Mic Night

Every Sunday, amazing acoustic music, all performers get drink and food offers, 7-10pm. The Tramshed, Beehive Yard, Bath

8pm. Village Pump Folk, Lamb Inn, Mortimer Street, Trowbridge. £3

Sublime Blues

Jonny Bruce, trumpet with the JazzHouse trio plus DJ Tony Clark, 8pm. St James Wine

Lazibyrd Folk, 8pm. Village Pump Folk, Lamb Inn, Mortimer Street, Trowbridge. £5

Saturday Buffalo Gals

Rural Arts Touring event, very popular old-time country string band, 7.30pm. Peace Memorial Hall, Southwick Road, North Bradley. Tickets £7/£6/£4.50 child. 01225 765644 for details

Blackwater Blues

Open Mic

Monday Curfew Inn, Cleveland Place, West, Bath 8pm. Free

The Silver Ring Choir Love to sing? Join us at 7.45pm.

Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath

Sing B4 Supper A friendly choir conducted by Jane Lilley, all abilities catered for, 6.15-7.45pm term-time. The Huntsman, Bog Island, Bath. £5 per session. For details Susanna Downes 07717173799

9pm. Mount Pleasant Social Club, Bradford-on-Avon. £5.

01225 867888 for details

Tuesday

A Handful of Singers

Every Tuesday. Expect all the cheesiest tunes, from 10pm.

Moles, Bath. £4/£3.50 NUS

Concert featuring Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Gloria and

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Schutz motets, 7.30pm. St John the Evangelist, South Parade, Bath. Tickets £14/£12 from Bath Box Office 01225 463362

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The Big Cheese

Bradford-on-Avon Folk Club

Sweet Misery, contemporary Americana Floorspots, 8pm. The Cellar Bar, Swan Hotel, Church Street, Bradford-on-Avon. Free entry

Acoustic Showcase An evening of fantastic live music featuring an array of local Bath and Bristol based musicians, doors open 7.30pm.

Komedia, Westgate Street, Bath

Hodmadoddery Folk, 8.30pm. The Belvoir Castle, Lower Bristol Road, Bath. Free entry

Wednesday Discord

A host of DJs playing a mix of Rock, Punk and Metal, 9.30pm-2am. PoNaNa nightclub, Bath. £5 entry

Karaoke With DJ Jay, 8pm. Mandalyns, Fountain Buildings, Bath

Old Crown Quiz 9pm. Old Crown, Weston Village, Bath

Anna Calvi Doors open 7.30pm. Komedia, Westgate Street, Bath. Tickets £14 advance

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Come visit us on the 8th February in Southgate 11am - 3pm to have your picture taken with the one you love or show how much you love your friends!

Take a seat and we will also give you a goody bag!

All for ÂŁ2 All the pictures will then be showcased in your local paper on February 13, 2014.

Join in the fun!

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Topping’s top reads

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The Lie by Helen Dunmore

The novel on everyone’s lips at the moment is The Lie and we think it’s the best book we’ve read so far.

We are absolutely delighted to welcome it’s author, the prize-winning writer and poet, Helen Dunmore. Her tragic and tender new novel is a haunting, ambiguous tale of two boyhood friends on the battlefilds of the first world war, delving into the horrors of war and post traumatic illness.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Dunmore read on Monday, March 17, 8pm at the bookshop.

Clockwise to Titan

by Elon Dann The cover on this book does not do it justice! This book was awesome! Think Shawshank Redemption for children but with a lot more action.

Tense and up-put-down-able it kept me up all night as I was desperate to finish it! A Must Read!

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Fever by Mary Beth Keane

The Silent Wife by A S A Harrison

This was historical fiction at its best and the best I have read in a while. I didn’t know much about Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) before this but it is such a fascinating story and one that needed a voice. Mary Beth Keane has done just that – she has given Mary a voice and has written her story into a novel with sensitivity and imagination. The perfect gripping read that will capture your heart and your mind.

The Silent Wife will get right under your skin and is a perfect example of this new genre, the Marriage Thriller. It is a dark, taut novel that gains in pace and atmosphere as you read. Jodi and Todd’s marriage is in the throes of despair and the outcome is not looking good. Highly addictive, unsettling and deserving of all its hype.

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The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Tiwary Vivek

A heartwarming story of the short life of Brian Epstein, a man driven by great energy and ambition, but he is also haunted by a dark and troubled private life, in which his very lifestyle makes him a criminal in his own country. Yet this is ultimately a story of achievement; of a man who discovered the greatest rock and roll band in music history, and thrust them brilliantly onto the world stage. Easily the graphic novel of the year.

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Artists unite for new exhibition

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new exhibition at Hilton Fine Art in Margaret’s Buildings Bath, which opens on February 8 and runs until the end of the month, brings together three well-known colourists – Derek Balmer, Rose Hilton and Paul Wadsworth – in a show that aims to celebrate the return of colour after the grey days of winter.

What links these artists is their strong sense of design and delight in bold colour.

This is a hard balancing act to achieve and one that many painters attempt but which all too often end up with a cacophony of colours fighting against

Bath Contemporary Exhibition, Robert Welch: Viewing Form. Welch makes strong reference to shape and form. Reducing the image to its simplest state, his soft palette sets a quiet tension between the two, to Sat Feb 8. 35 Gay Street, Bath

Nick Cudworth Gallery Exhibition of oil paintings and prints by Nick Cudworth, Under

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each other.

These three artists have mastered the art of balancing the colour and tonal distribution so that the sum of the parts add up to more than the whole, resulting in wonderful colourfield paintings that give great sensory pleasure.

For each of them the figurative element is essential whether looking at the figures used as vehicles for colour in Paul Wadsworth and Rose Hilton’s paintings or the landscapes constructed in a vibrant palette by Derek Balmer PPRWA. Balmer was part of the exciting 1960s Bristol art scene and later President of the RWA. An early Arnolfini artist, with two solo shows in the 1960s, he didn’t

the Bridges of Bath, to Fri Feb 28. 5 London Street, Bath

paint full time until he gave up a lucrative photography business.

Rose Hilton studied at Beckenham School of Art and in 1953 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. Rose has steadily built a reputation as a major St Ives artist. At her retrospective at Tate St Ives in 2008, the paintings were chosen to reflect the increasingly abstract nature of her work.

Paul Wadsworth’s work is a journey; an exploration where one adventure in paint leads to another and one where every landscape consists of more than just the physical qualities of terrain. His landscape is also the work of the mind, related emotionally to the fact of human nature.

Mar 1. 5 Margarets Buildings, Bath

Exhibition, Eastern Voices in the West Country and Treasures, to Sun June 29. Bennett Street, Bath

kinds of meanings and Peter Brown, Keeping the home fire burning, over fifty new oil paintings and drawings celebrating the streets of Bath, Sat Feb 8-Thurs Mar 27, Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1.30-5pm, closed Monday’s.

Pulteney Bridge, Bath

Victoria Art Gallery

Hilton Fine Art

Exhibition, Anna Dougherty, What’s Inside, explores how everyday objects hold many

Exhibition, Signs of Colour: Derek Balmer, Rose Hilton and Paul Wadsworth, Sat Feb 8-Sat

Exhibition: Bath Textile Artists.

The Artists have been inspired by the wealth of the Wiltshire landscape and history to create

Museum of East Asian Art

Bath Artists’ Studios Exhibition, Heart Bath, Elise Menghini, Sat 8-Wed Feb 12, 11am-5pm. The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Bath

The Pound

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pieces using a variety of different techniques, Sat Feb 8-Sat Mar 22. Pound Pill, Corsham

44AD artspace Exhibition, The Constructed Image, featuring the photocollages and constructions of Jeremy Haslam alongside the box-art constructions and assemblages of Robert Lee, to Mon Feb 10. 7B Lower Borough Walls, Bath

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Explore a new view of city

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ince graduating from Bath Spa University in 2013 with a first class degree in Ceramics, Elise Menghini has been the first Artist in Residence at Bath Artist Studios.

The residency culminates in a solo exhibition this month.

For the exhibition Elise has made a series of interior objects that have been inspired by Bath, as an historical and popular tourist city.

Through her research, she has unearthed many hidden and fascinating facts. From the Wedgwood showroom once housed on Milsom Street to the oyster shells found in the restoration of No 1 Royal Crescent, she became intrigued to rediscover these forgotten stories.

These references are synthesised in

Elise’s mixed media pieces, which aim to offer a contemporary view of Bath’s visually rich and cultural landscape.

She says: “The residency has given me the chance to stop and reflect on where I live, while continuing my fascination with a sense of place, which inspired my ceramics degree show in 2013.

“By visiting all the city landmarks I had not explored before, such as No 1 Royal Crescent, I became engrossed in the interior splendour and hidden stories behind the buildings that surround me.

“I started to see them more with a visitor’s eye than that of a busy resident.”

The show opens on Saturday and runs until the following Wednesday at the studios in Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath.

Life ‘under the bridges of Bath’ Under the Bridges of Bath is the title of the new exhibition of work by Bath artist Nick Cudworth at his gallery at the top of Walcot Street.

This is an exhibition of oil paintings and prints of bridges over the canal and river as they run through Bath.

Also included is a painting of one of the bridges over the railway track that was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel who features in the painting.

The exhibition runs until the end of February.

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David O Russell

Alfonso Cuarón

Alexander Payne

Steve McQueen

Martin Scorsese

Directors’ golden touch

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he Oscar nominations for best director this year are David O Russell for American Hustle, Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity, Alexander Payne for Nebraska, Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Director David Owen Russell was born in 1958 and is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

His films include Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Fighter (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Born in New York City, the son of Maria and Bernard Russell – who was a sales executive for Simon & Schuster – Russell’s first directorial effort was the 1994 independent dark comedy Spanking the Monkey starring Jeremy Davies and Alberta Watson.

American Hustle is loosely based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams.

Alfonso Cuarón is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer and editor best known for his films A Little Princess (1995), Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Children of Men (2006).

Most of his work has been praised by both audience and critics, and he has won a BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language as one of the producers of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Gravity.

Gravity is a science-fiction thriller

In four weeks the movie world celebrates what has been a remarkable year for cinema. The countdown begins this week with our look at the best directors starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts involved in the mid-orbit destruction of a space shuttle and their attempt to return to Earth.

Alexander Payne is known for the films Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011). His films are noted for their dark humour and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.

Nebraska is a bittersweet road movie, which sees curmudgeonly Woody (Bruce Dern) embark on a cross-country odyssey to collect the million-dollar prize promised him by a piece of junk mail. Heedless of his family’s assurances that his prize won’t amount to anything, Woody sets off on a journey from Montana to Nebraska, with despairing son David (Will Forte).

In 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup, a free black man living with his wife and children in New York in 1841, is tricked by slave traders into traveling to Washington, DC, where he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Sent to Louisiana, he experiences the violence and degradation of life as a

slave, while clinging to the hope that he will someday regain his freedom.

British film director Steve McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all of McQueen’s three feature films.

In the heady financial world of the 1990s, stockbroker Jordan Belfort enjoys a meteoric rise as one of Wall Street’s power players in The Wolf of Wall Street. Tossing aside ethics and legality, he heartily embraces the excesses of the era.

Hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history, Martin Scorsese has directed landmark films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990).

He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006).

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