STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES: Blackberries, markets and commuters: the changing face of Axbridge and how it all started with a Romano-British funeral
This is the first in a series of short articles about the town of Axbridge in Somerset and how it…
The Axbridge Pageant 2020 has been postponed for a year due to the Coronavirus crisis. This is a feature about the event written in the build up – now put off for a year: Why the Axbridge Pageant bonds the whole community
Axbridge in Somerset is a town of some 2,500 souls and is confined to a narrow strip of land betwixt…
Axbridge Weather: cold cloudy with a bitter east wind reminds us winter is not over just yet
Sunday, March 29, 2020. Information from a piece of seaweed and my rheumatic knee – and the BBC Today: sunny and cold…
AGENDA WEST Consumer News: offered a new tarmac driveway? Check out the company first with Checkaco before you part with any cash – unlike the 500 victims of this rogue
The driveway cowboys have been around ever since tarmac was invented. The con is the dodgy workman knocks on the…
AGENDA WEST Business News: to furlough or not to furlough as firms look to survive the coronavirus crisis (including one tip – to do all the jobs in the office you never get round to)
To furlough or not to furlough is the question as cash flow dries up and business comes to a halt.…
AGENDA WEST Business News: financial experts explain who in the 5 million self-employed will or won’t get help from the Government (but 2 million are left high and dry)
Despite the long awaited plans by the chancellor Rishi Sunak for the self-employed outlined this week many will be left…
AGENDA WEST Comment: as the self-employed, small businesses and zero hour contract workers take a financial hit – is shutting down the economy the best way to tackle coronavirus?
Harry Mottram asks for tolerance for those with alternative views on the crisis Twitter and social media is creating an…
AGENDA WEST Business News: ICSM Credit on coronavirus and how different industries are coping by diversifying, not paying rent, laying off staff or simply closing their doors
“Surviving difficult times calls for difficult decisions,” said Ian Carrotte of ICSM Credit, “but to survive the coronavirus crisis business…
AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEWS: the next meeting for the Chamber along with the networking and working from home meeting have been postponed due to coronavirus crisis. New dates will be confirmed later this spring
CANCELLED: The next meeting of the Axbridge Chamber of Commerce was on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at 7.30pm at the…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES News: local newspaper review – Weston Hospital gears up for coronavirus; the Axbridge Pageant is postponed; should there be CCTV in Axbridge; latest on the Cross Safe Path Campaign and sport is wiped out by the COVID-19
The Weston Mercury leads on the outbreak of the flu-like disease coronavirus that began in Wuhan in eastern China (a city of…