By Sandy Bell, President Chew Valley Chamber of Commerce. One of the traditional principles of Chambers of Commerce is to encourage members to do business with one another. It makes sense to stick together at the best of times, never mind the circumstance we are facing at the moment. We’ve also done what we can to promote the idea of buying locally, suggesting that people should at least give local suppliers a chance to show what they can do. Some traders in in Bath have been

Every set of economic figures paints a gloomy picture and those for retail and tourism are particularly bleak, which is obviously bad news for Bath. Over time there will almost certainly be an element of bounce back, but we must face the possibility that things will never get return to former levels of activity. We could just give up, pull the blankets over our heads and await the inevitable, but you know that won’t happen. What will happen is that the multitude of bright thi