bathvoice January 2022 No. 23
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Planting wild flowers for the spring on Lyncombe Hill Fields
Liveable street plans closer Page 11 Letters on 20mph speed limit Page 14
More than 100 children from Widcombe Infant and Junior Schools helped to plant the first batch of 250 cowslip plugs at the fields before Christmas. The area had been prepared by the Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields in readiness to create a wild flower meadow in the spring. For details visit friendsoflyncombehillfields.co.uk
Sports News Page 15 What’s On Pages 16
Puzzles Page 21
Tidying up the streets with the new community wardens By Harry Mottram. Expect a knock the door in Oldfield Park if you’ve left your recycling bins unfilled and your trash littering the pavement outside. It’s not the police and it’s not the local residents’ association but something new that is likely to be repeated across the city in
the years to come. Meet the new Community Wardens. Well, Community Warden as there’s only one at the moment but as the man behind the scheme Cllr Shaun StephensonMcGall said - it’s a start. “Tom McGraff is the first Community Warden to work the
patch,” he said, “and he has routes around Oldfield Park to work with the residents and also the university to improve things especially where there are concerns about litter, a lack of recycling and some of the issues associated with Houses of Continued on page 3
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