Bath Voice News: Nurses at the RUH take second day of industrial action in pursuit of fair pay
FEBRUARY 7, 2023 By Harry Mottram: For the second day in a row, members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)…
Bath Voice News: Bristol Airport will be allowed to expand after High Court ruling
By Harry Mottram: Bathonian’s nearest airport at Lulsgate has been given the green light to expand allowing more people from…
Axbridge News: Sidetracks rock up at Draycott’s Cider Barn to roll back the years for a barn full of unashamed boomers on a freezing February night with the soft rocking sounds of the 70s
By Harry Mottram: The West Country based seven piece band Sidetracks played to a full house at the Cider Barn…
Axbridge News: Charities get funding boost from the town’s annual progressive supper
The Axbridge Progressive Supper held on Saturday, December 3, 2022, raised £2,000 for local charities. The Committee behind the event…
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…