Axbridge News: Somerset County Council’s £100 million black hole headache is part of a national problem for authorities across the UK who face going bust
By Harry Mottram: Without new funding or massive cuts to services local authorities will go bust this and next year.…
Bath Voice Sports News: Finn Russell on joining the BB&Ws
JANUARY 11, 2024 The Scottish international rugby player who now plays for Bath has been speaking to the BBC. He…
ICSM Business Opinion: waffling politicians, over paid directors, money grabbing lawyers and management blindness to the bleeding obvious are behind the Post Office scandal
By Harry Mottram: For years journalists have been exposing the Post Office scandal where Post Masters were accused of theft, were…
Axbridge News: Bellway pause development of Lavender Rise off Houlgate Way in the town due to a ‘challenging marketing’ situation
By Harry Mottram: They’ve ripped out the hedges, felled the trees and left a half completed pavement and entrance to…
Bath Voice News: a new book of the unsung women of Bath and Somerset reveals the lives of a freed Roman slave turned wife, a Huguenot baker and a Barbadian lady and a disabled artist
JANUARY 9, 2024 By the author Helen Pugh: Unsung Women in Somerset uncovers little-known information about women who lived in Somerset in…
Bath Voice Theatre Review: last night of Sleeping Beauty at the Theatre Royal seen from the Gods using binoculars
JANUARY 7, 2024 Weird I know. I wanted to see the last night of the Theatre Royal Bath’s pantomime Sleeping Beauty directed…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
Nuclear bomb alerts, beer thefts, baseball and the tantalising thought of half-naked women dancing inside a marquee at the trade…
Bath Voice News Theatre Review: a confusing and uneven visit to Neverland with Wendy – a Peter Pan Story at the Egg Theatre
JANUARY 5, 2024 The Egg Theatre in Bath has seen so many superb shows for children and young people but…
Bath Voice News: Bath’s RUH Hospital issues advice as Junior Doctors begin industrial action
JANUARY 3, 2024 By Harry Mottram: The RUH have issued advice to visitors and patients as the British Medical Association (BMA)…
Bath Voice News: Happy New Year to all our readers – plus a look back over 2023
JANUARY 1, 2024 2023: buses, murders, strikes, planning battles, a Tory wipe out and those Bath Rugby stadium plans By…