AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Public notice from Sedgemoor District Council – beware of this vaccination scam
Residents across Bath and North East Somerset are being warned to beware of a coronavirus text message scam.Bath & North…
Dates for your diary in 2021
Friday, 1st January, 2021. New Year’s Day. Bank Holiday Monday, 4th January, 2021. Plough Monday – back to work Wednesday,…
Christmas 2020: looking back to the Big Freeze in 1962/63 when the Res froze over and Somerset looked like Siberia for several weeks
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: memories of the Big Freeze in the winter of 1962/63 and when steam trains connected…
Winter Solstice
Today and tomorrow are the shortest days of the year. Although the sunset and sunrise times only change marginally in…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Book Review – domestic abuse, unhelpful nuns and good women triumphing over bad men – Kathryn Hughes’ self-published best seller The Letter may be simplistic in style but has a finely crafted plot and a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter
It’s easy to be snooty about Kathryn Hughes’ simplistic writing style. Whether it’s the ‘I can see them coming in…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: sex, secrets and violence – and a coming of age neo-Gothic mystery set within the shadow of Franco’s Spain in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Teenager Daniel Sempere is the beneficiary of continuous advice from man-of-the-world…
AGENDA WEST: scam alert for the self-employed and small businesses – bogus email and link to HMRC to claim a tax refund because of Covid-19 (but there’s one tiny give-away which your eye may not notice)
Scam alert! The scam works like this: an email arrives seemingly from the taxman or the HMRC – Her Majesty’s…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: the shocking collapse of retailing this year (with Debenhams likely to be liquidated) meaning more than a quarter of a million shop workers have lost their jobs in 2020 and suppliers left with nothing – read the long list of big names here
After Arcadia went into administration last month it meant the only potential buyer of Debenhams, namely JD Sports, pulled out…