Axbridge News: A disconcerting incident involving suspected illegal hunting near Wedmore in Somerset
By Harry Mottram: Further to a recent post on the Axbridge Community Facebook site about hunting – this may be…
ICSM Cryptocurrency Business News: from tulips to the South Sea Bubble, the dot.com boom and cryptocurrencies – beware of investment opportunities that turn out to be Ponzi schemes
By Harry Mottram: In 1637 investors in Dutch tulips experienced one of the worst market crashes of all time. The price…
Bath Voice Features: Look back to when criminals were executed in Bath’s prison
FEBRUARY 2, 2023 By Harry Mottram. It’s an uncomfortable truth but until 1868 convicted criminals could be executed by hanging in…
Look Back: Bath Voice – the real reason why Bathonian Bill danced away with the Strictly Come Dancing glitter ball
It wasn’t just female fans of the BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing who cheered when actor, musician and comedian…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: conquest of Ben Nevis with my sister – a very British ascent with cheese sandwiches, Gulab Jamun sweets, missing chocolate, the misnamed Halfway Loch, precipitous paths and er… the Poo Rock
Wet, bedraggled and miserable: not us but one of the first couples coming down the mountain as we struggled up…
LOOKING BACK – VIDEO: My mother Mary Mottram on Television South West’s gardening program in the 1980s
Mary Mottram appeared on a gardening programme presented by Terry Underhill Gardening For All for Television South West. She spoke…
The book Bath Arts Workshop chartered the heady days in the city of the counterculture of the 1970s
JANUARY 28, 2023 By Harry Mottram. The late 60s and early 1970s was seen as a golden age of counterculture in…
ICSM Aviation Business News: Flybe leaves customers and suppliers high and dry as it collapses into administration for the second time in three years
Grounded: Flybe have gone into adminstration for the second time By Harry Mottram: Three yeas ago this month Flybe warned of…
Checkaco Consumer News: romance fraud is fleecing victims of thousands of pounds every week – don’t be conned this Valentine’s
Posted on 27th January 2023by Harry Mottram By Harry Mottram: years ago romance bloomed in discos, the pub or even the bus…
Bristol Theatre
Theatre Preview: Sally Cookson to direct an all female cast in the period comedy Emilia JANUARY 27, 2023 Bristol Old…