Paul Crossley1

At our ward surgery today - issues included the police presence over the week, anti-social behaviour, parking, planning comments on Bath Western Riverside and the Two Tunnels project. I am pursuading everyone to vote for Sustrans Connect 2 in the people lottery. It will add a fabulous stretch of cycle way from Newbridge to Wellow and going through the long Combe Down Tunnel. In the afternoon helped with the annual Methodist Church Christmas Bazaar. These Bazaar take a lot of organisation and commitment but the Methodist Church in Southdown is really working in the community. I talked to several stars from our golden-oldies charity launch earlier in the week as Blagdon Park Community Centre has been th pilot program for this new charity which aims to get our older residents together for a good session of singing concentrating on golden oldies from the 50s and 60s. The words are all well known and remembered and they sessions have been great fun. SInging is a great source of community cohesion and entertainment and brings people together and out of isolation. We all have high hopes that this new charity will be so successful that it will go national. It has been organised by a star of local chours - Grenville Jones and Cllr Marian McNeir.