HARRY MOTTRAM FREELANCE JOURNALIST: death of Brenda Dean announced – the leader of SOGAT82 who took on the might of Rupert Murdock’s News International and lost (and the defeat of her trade union has led to fewer rights for workers ever since)
Harry Mottram reports Brenda Dean, one of the leading figures of the print industry trade union movement has died at…
HARRY MOTTRAM FREELANCE JOURNALIST: a brief history of Royal wedding invites from Henry VIII to Prince Harry (as the Royal wedding invitations for Harry and Meghan’s big day go in the post)
Harry Mottram reports The news that employee owned printing trust Barnard & Westwood of London have printed the invitations to…
CHEDDAR LIBRARY – supporters and Friends of the Library gather to lobby to keep the community asset open
Friends of Cheddar Library gathered at the library today (23 March 2018) to lobby to keep the library open. Somerset…
COMEDY – BREAKING NEWS: Change of line-up at the Axbridge Comedy Night as The Dark Lord of Cornish Comedy is replaced by top comic Christian Russell Pollock
Regan McNeil has had to pull out of the comedy night at the Axbridge Roxy on Thursday March 22 due…
HARRY MOTTRAM FREELANCE JOURNALIST: a video report from the Wasps Arena at the Ricoh Stadium in Coventry on the Print Week Live Show (it was very nice – but there weren’t too many people there)
Harry Mottram reports Visitor numbers at the Print Week Live event held at the Wasps Arena in Coventry last week…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE – THEATRE REVIEW: Boyd’s pitch perfect production of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard without a cherry tree in sight (but is Owusu’s Lopakhin a prediction of a future Putin oligarch?)
A drowned child, the ever turning world and not a cherry tree in sight. Michael Boyd’s production of Anton Chekov’s…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE – THEATRE PREVIEW: the many sides of Russia and of human relationships are reflected in the Bristol Old Vic’s production of The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekov’s view of turn of the century Russian society The Bristol Old Vic Theatre stage a new production. The…
AXBRIDGE NEWS: a report on the funeral service for Wendy Mace (with bitter sweet stories, great speeches and the day one of Axbridge’s finest was remembered)
Harry Mottram reports on the funeral service for the bon vivant Wendy Mace of Axbridge who (along with her husband…
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…
AXBRIDGE NEWS: photographs of Cheddar Reservoir at dawn during February 2018 (from moonlight to arctic light)
The vast strawberry shaped reservoir between Cheddar and Axbridge acts like a mirror to the sky. February began as though…
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