Mayor Dan Norris has been at Bath Nuttery which is being transformed for bees as part of a Mayoral Combined Authority-funded pollinator project.

The project to turn The Nuttery - which is on National Trust land at Smallcombe Vale, on the route of the popular Bath Skyline walk - into a pollinator haven helping Bath's pollinator pals has been made possible thanks to a £1,250-plus cash injection from Mr Norris's Mayoral Combined Authority.

The Nuttery is a wood and grassland area planted in 2011 with a hedgerow and some 40 nut trees - including cobnuts, sweet chestnuts, quince, and more. But post pandemic, Dr Lyn Barham and her team say they have been unable to do much maintenance on site, but now have cash to not just maintain the site but make it even more beautiful and fit for Bath's bee buddies.

The grant from Mayor Norris is being used to add nectar and pollen-rich bee friendly flowering plants and shrubs on site, like yellow rattle - a bee favourite - and night-scented plants which are vital for moths and other nighttime pollinators.

There are plans to do things like introduce a 'hedgehog highway', and even plant an edible garden for locals and pollinators alike to enjoy.