Axbridge News: monthly Somerset publication goes public over money it says it is owed by a local pub – as the pub changes its name
By Harry Mottram: Those who pass through Shipham on a regular basis will have noticed the Penscot Inn – the…
Axbridge News: political update on one of the town’s most contentious subjects – the annual Boxing Day hunt meeting in Axbridge Square
By Harry Mottram: For as long as anyone can remember there have been fox hunting meetings on Boxing Day across…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Preview: in the week Putin critic Alexei Navalny is murdered a play about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London is brought to the stage in Bristol
A Very Expensive Poison, at Circo Media: This week Alexei Navalny was been murdered on the orders of Putin, while…
Axbridge Book Review: Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (and soon to be a BBC3 series) is an unfeasible but highly enjoyable and neatly plotted whodunnit about schoolgirl Pip who uses blackmail, bluff and burglary to bring a murderer to justice
Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson. Sex, drugs and murder. Yes, Holly Jackson’s young adult…
Axbridge News: the BBC3 series based on Holly Jackson’s novel A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder filmed in Axbridge is set to be screened
By Harry Mottram: For several weeks in 2023 Axbridge was the setting for the filming of the Holly Jackson’s novel…
Axbridge News: Cheddar Arts Festival set for the May Bank Holiday weekend of the 4th-6th
Early May Bank Holiday Weekend Cheddar Arts Walking Trail Once again Cheddar Artists are staging a festival over the May…
Axbridge News: end of an era as fixtures and fittings are removed from the Oakhouse Hotel as the owner confirms the tenant company has ‘gone into liquidation’
By Harry Mottram: Going, going, gone – about sums it up for the company that ran the Oakhouse Hotel in…
Axbridge News: emotional abuse, manipulation, lies and bullying – how Patrick Hamilton’s play Gaslight created the term gaslighting – now set to be staged in Axbridge
By Harry Mottram: perhaps the most insidious use of gaslighting recently has been the way Post Office management and directors…
Axbridge News: update on the Oakhouse Hotel in Axbridge following issues over it’s apparent closure and attempts to book it for weddings
By Harry Mottram: In the last few weeks there have been a number of comments online on various social media…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: sex magazines in a suitcase (clearly a set up) led to the downfall of a musical visionary and the inspiration for the Sydney Opera House
In BBC Radio 4’s A Very Australian Scandal we learn about a scandal that today would barely raise an eyebrow…