ICSM Printing Industry Insolvency News – paper firm folds; publisher fails to pay suppliers; and Ancient House leaves £2.5m in unpaid invoices
By Harry Mottram: Losing a customer is bad enough when they go bust but if they are liquidated and the supplier…
ICSM Business Membership Group: Sainsbury’s slash staff, Homebase outlets sold to B&Q; WH Smith for sale; plus retail profit warnings
By Harry Mottram: Retailers have issued profit warnings reports The Grocer, with half of FTSE retailers issuing profit warnings citing weaker…
Bath Voice News: Combe Down’s allotment holders appeal for help to set up a Community Interest Company to fight off threat of eviction in October as the battle to save the allotments enters a new phase
January 27, 2025 By Harry Mottram: In a cry to arms the allotment holders of Combe Down have appealed for supporters…
Bath Voice News: now there are four – Lib Dem Walcot Councillor Oli Henman throws his hat into the ring in a bid to become Metro Mayor for Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol and South Glos
By Harry Mottram: The election battle to replace Labour MP and Metro Mayor Dan Norris on Thursday May 1st has…
Axbridge Review: the town’s heritage trail comes to life at the point of a needle! The magnificent eleven set to unveil a textile hanging in the Town Hall on February 1st (Farmers’ Market Day)
By Harry Mottram: A group of Axbridge women have created a textile hanging depicting the town’s Heritage Trail which will…
Axbridge Review: could Cheddar Reservoir (s) now be renamed Wedmore Lakes – proposed boundary changes for Somerset Council create some quirky divisions
By Harry Mottram: Somerset Confidential news has reported on the proposed divisional electoral boundaries for Somerset Council which gives some…
ICSM Business Membership Group: fighting late and non-payment – News in Brief – Printing and Allied trades’ recent insolvencies and latest update on Ancient House
By Harry Mottram: Over the festive period and now the New Year more print based and allied trades and service firms…
Rapscallion Magazine: how French and Chinese funders determine the infrastructure of west Somerset – while the unfinished Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is guarded at the point of a gun
By Harry Mottram: All I wanted was to get a photograph of Hinkley Point C from the public footpath along…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: English journeys – high explosives, shopping lists and ancient earthworks on Brean Down in Somerset
By Harry Mottram: I picked up the piece of paper on Brean Down by the fort. It was a shopping…
Bath Voice News: exhibition picks in the city and beyond for January
January 6, 2025 Exhibition Picks in Bath American Museum, Bath. Claverton. The Museum’s founders, Dallas Pratt and John Judkyn, an anglo-American…