bathvoice March 2022 No. 25
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The ‘good eggs’ book their books at the bookshop
Sports News in brief Page 6-7
Children from Oldfield Park Junior School have been rewarded for their hard work with a new book as a gift from the Oldfield Park Bookshop - and a visit to a cafe for a cuppa and a cake. Learning Heroes as they are called are pupils who have been recognised by their teachers as having worked exceptionally hard in their studies or have overcome challenges away from academic endeavours. And as the headteacher of the school David Goucher said some children have also been rewarded for being an all-round ‘good egg’.
Royal visit Page 13 Gore upgrade Page 14 What’s On Page 16-17 Local history: the despot who stayed in Bath Page 20
Guy went ‘above and beyond’ in transparency over NT meadows By Stephen Sumner, Local Democracy Reporter. The leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council went “above and beyond” to ensure he had no involvement in his father-in-law’s sale of land to the National Trust. Councillor Kevin Guy said critics had tried to make out his
husband’s dad Ken Horler was a “greedy farmer” but said he could have taken a bigger £1.1million payout from the previous Tory administration when it wanted to build a park and ride at Bathampton Meadows. Instead the National Trust bought the 15.6-hectare parcel of
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New Leaf Farm for “fair market value” using a restricted fund of legacy donations that can only be used for land acquisition. Mr Guy’s husband Steve Horler is a director and owns a 1.75 per cent share of Deepair Ltd, which is majority-owned by his father and Continued on page 3
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