RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet – a re-imagining of the lives of the Shakespeares of Stratford-upon-Avon with the focus on William’s mysterious wife Agnes (Anne Hathaway)
Hamnet by Maggie O’FarrellFor a novel that imagines the lives of William and Anne Shakespeare and their only son Hamnet…
AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEWS: new member of the Chamber reveals their sales campaign on credit checking
New member of Axbridge Chamber of Commerce’s sales campaign Checkaco in Bridgwater has joined the growing ranks of Axbridge Chamber…
AGENDA WEST: The Big Short 2: how a us V them battle over GameStop’s shares reveals the risky world of shorting as explained in Adam McKay’s film
A David v Goliath battle has broken out in the USA over the share price of a shop that you’d…
AGENDA WEST: The 2008 Credit Crunch explained in Adam McKay’s adrenalin filled tragic-black comedy movie The Big Short shows how easy it is for fraudster bankers to bring an economy down – is it happening again with Covid-19 loans?
A quartet of central characters, drive the plot of The Big Short, as they uncover the extent of the sub-prime…
AXBRIDGE PAGEANT: all systems go for 2022 (providing Covid 19 is on its way out this summer)
Green light for town’s 2022 Pageant The Pageant will go ahead next year as planned. That was the decision made…
BATH VOICE: Vision for a ‘people friendly’ Hayes Place in Bear Flat set out by the residents association
By Harry Mottram for Bath Voice At the top of Holloway linking Bear Flat to the city centre is Hayes…
AGENDA WEST OPINION: Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Experts predict INFLATION is set to return in 2021 along with higher interest rates
Those who are long in the tooth can remember the horror of Black Wednesday in 1997 when interest rates briefly…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: Covid-19’s double dip recession on the way as winter lockdown costs our economy £390m a day – the first such downturn since 1975 in the era of strikes, inflation and unemployment
An economic think tank has predicted something that every business in the UK has predicted: we are about to enter…
AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court backs small businesses in Covid-19 insurance case bringing potential relief to thousands of firms and traders
Cheers broke out in small businesses across the UK today as the Supreme Court backed them in a dispute with…
AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BREAKING NEWS: Ruling expected TODAY for thousands of small businesses in Covid insurance case (after insurers refused to pay up)
Firms who pay business interruption insurance will learn today if they will be able to claim after being shut down…