Bath Voice Croquet News: Georgians play the game of the future during the Jane Austen Festival (also a game of flirtation and match making)
September 14, 2023 By Harry Mottram: As part of the Jane Austen Festival Bath last month Bath’s Croquet Club hosted…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the dark underbelly of American society is exposed in Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead – the white trash of the Appalachians
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver White trash, trailer homes, foster farms and drug fuelled early deaths, Demon Copperhead is not…
Bath Voice News: theatre preview of Michael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off play as it opens in Bath (it’s about a terrible acting group performing in a Somerset town)
September 12, 2023 By Harry Mottram: the Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with the Birmingham Rep are staging Michael…
Bath Voice News: Channel 5 screens the story of Bath’s Hester Poole and her guide dog Pickle in a life affirming show revealing how guide dogs transform lives
September 11, 2023 By Harry Mottram: The Channel 5 programme Puppy School for Guide Dogs screening this month has featured…
ICSM Logistics business news: insolvencies among haulage firms rise as the industry is hit by a perfect storm
By Harry Mottram: Hauliers going to the wall are sharply up as costs spiral, competition increases and the effects of Brexit,…
Bath Voice News: Empire line gowns, bonnets and riding breeches – the Jane Austen Festival opens in Bath
September 8, 2023 By Harry Mottram: The Jane Austen Festival runs from Friday 8th to Sunday 17th September 2023, and features guided…
ICSM Business News: Birmingham Council issues a section 114 notice after running out of cash but there’s a long history of councils that have gone bust – both Labour and Conservative
By Harry Mottram: Those who can recall the days of Margaret Thatcher may also remember the Liverpool Council’s 1983 Rate Capping…
ICSM Business Insolvency News: shadowy spivs, sharks and chancers make mockery of Wilko’s collapse as the administrators seek a deal with retail rival B&M to save part of the chain
By Harry Mottram: For the 12,500 Wilko staff and the ailing store’s hundreds of suppliers it’s been an unedifying few days,…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Kidderminster, Sheffield and drying bras – a stay with students when supper was peanut butter on toast – this was England in the year of the 1976 drought
Part two of Harry Mottram’s cycle ride to Scotland at a dig at Threave Castle when the UK looked like…
Bath Voice News: a recap of the proposals for a new rugby stadium in the city – the most talked about issue in the city as the new season kicks off
September 3, 2023 By Bath Voice news editor Harry Mottram and John Wimperis of the local democracy service: The architects…