Bath Voice News: Work to repair flood damage to the plant room at Cleveland Pools caused by the 2024 floods continues – meaning they won’t re-open anytime soon
March 4, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Cleveland Pools will remain closed following the flooding in January 2024. In a statement Paul…
Axbridge Review – Somerset News: Hatch stage art exhibition near Langport from 15-30 March – Thinking Inside The Box – where the creations are all inside boxes
Somerset exhibition – THINKING INSIDE THE BOX. 15th – 30th March, weekends only, 11am-4pm By Tina Salvidge of Hatch: Hatch…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Eleanor Catton’s ‘environmental thriller’ Birnham Wood gets stuck in the trees until someone gets killed and we have a breathless finish to her novel
Book Review: Birnham Wood. By Eleanor Catton (pictured – credit the Scotsman) A bit like digging a new vegetable patch…
Axbridge Review: Cheddar Reservoir’s owner Susan Davy, the CEO of The Pennon Group grilled over leaks, pollution and her £860,000 salary – plus news of Cheddar Reservoir 2
By Harry Mottram: Water bills in Axbridge are to rise by 32% by 2030 as utility firms hike consumer prices…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: John Hillaby’s ‘lyrical, revealing and candid account’ of his Journey Through Britain – in a country much changed since 1968 when it was published
Book Review: Journey Through Britain. By John Hillaby Britain was different in the late 1960s. Most chaps wore jackets and…
Bath Voice News: Bath MP slams Trump over his accusations the Ukrainian president is a ‘dictator’ as she praises Bath’s Friendship Agreement with Oleksandriya ahead of their concert on Monday, 24 February
February 20, 2025 By Harry Mottram: The Bath MP Wera Hobhouse has joined a chorus of condemnation of the USA President…
Rapscallion Magazine: updated – Notes on an enduring love for Dinbych-y-pysgod (Tenby)
It all began with a copy of the Radio Times. Harry Mottram saw an advert for a cheap week in…
Rapscallion Magazine: Game of Empires – if Russia can bag Ukraine and USA can grab Greenland then Britain can seize New York and Spain Texas – it’s the 21st century power game
By Harry Mottram: Welcome to the 19th century, remade in the 21st century when the great powers feel entitled to…
Bath Voice Music News: Nostalgic album of lesser known local bands from Bristol and Bath of the 1980s released
By Harry Mottram: During the 1980s there were a number of bands from Bristol and Bath that nearly made it…
Axbridge Review – looking back to the 1930s when 400 men, steam power and picks and shovels built Cheddar Reservoir in the shadow of the Second World War
By Harry Mottram: It was the year the National Grid was completed and the classic London Underground map designed by…