Axbridge Review: Birnbeck Pier to reopen to the public in four years after decades of neglect
By Harry Mottram: I was one of the last people to walk around Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare back in the…
Axbridge Review: the decline and fall of The Cheddar Valley Gazette and other newspapers (and it wasn’t my fault – but there is a culprit)
December 13, 2024 By Harry Mottram: Nobody buys the Cheddar Valley Gazette anymore. Mainly because it doesn’t exist but has been ‘merged’ with…
Axbridge Review: update on the Boxing Day Hunt meeting as Somerset Council clarify issues over parking and road access
By Harry Mottram: A group called Action Against Fox Hunting have appealed for residents to boycott the Boxing Day meeting…
Axbridge Review: surveyors begin work on Cheddar Reservoir 2
By Harry Mottram: It’s not everyday that Axbridge Review scoops, the BBC, Somerset Live and perhaps more importantly The New…
Axbridge Review: starter, main, sweet – diners in the town raise £900 each for the foodbank and the school PTA with the town’s progressive supper
More than a hundred residents of Axbridge ate their way through three sumptuous courses in the town’s progressive supper on…
Axbridge Review – feedback from the public meeting on the campaign to Save The Axbridge Methodist Church moves on to some practical steps to realise the dream of an arts centre
By Harry Mottram: The two main people behind driving the campaign to Save The Axbridge Methodist Church have published the…
Axbridge Review: update on the annual Boxing Day meeting of Weston and Banwell Harriers in Axbridge as anti-hunt group doubles down on their opposition
By Harry Mottram: Axbridge Town Council has responded to questions from Alyson Rogers of Action Against Foxhunting over their jurisdiction of the…
Axbridge Review: Rev Andrew Bell – no booze if Methodist Church is leased; Church authorities will sell to highest bidder; while the public suggest various ideas in a packed town hall including its sale to fund the purchase of the redundant church
By Harry Mottram: While there was no shortage of ideas from the 100 or so members of the public who…
Axbridge Review: Campaign to save the Axbridge Methodist Church for the community begins with an open afternoon and a public meeting
By Harry Mottram: More than 100 residents of Axbridge braved torrential rain to visit the town’s Methodist Church in West…
Axbridge Theatre Review: outstanding performances in a brilliantly reworked A Midsummer Night’s Dream fit for the 21st century in Axbridge Town Hall
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Axbridge Town Hall. On a freezing November night in Axbridge we were taken to…