Bath Voice News: the hill top green paradise in the city approaches its third anniversary run by a public interest company for the community
AUGUST 17, 2023 By Harry Mottram: In just a few weeks time the not-for-profit Community Interest Company (FLHF) of Lyncombe Hill…
Strawberry Line Times Feature: when Italian soldiers were prisoners of war in Somerset
Somerset has been enriched by immigrants since the year dot. Although it’s Syrians, Afghans, Ukrainians and Sudanese immigrants who make…
Bath Voice News: two very different concepts for the future rugby stadium – a pragmatic design from the club met with underwhelming support or the Roman colosseum design championed by many but would send costs spiralling
AUGUST 14, 2023 By Harry Mottram: It’s the story that’s set public opinion alight this summer amongst those with a passion…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: canal paths, skinny dippers and Macbeth – with added punctures and insect bites on a Somerset to London cycle ride – and our closest ape relatives giving me the cold shoulder
By Harry Mottram: Rain, rain and more rain this summer. And then Carol Kirkwood on BBC’s Breakfast programme announced there…
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…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Jane and Serge and the hit record Je t’aime… that created a wave of snogging in the Fifth Form Common Room and was banned by the Vatican and the BBC
Radio Review: I first became aware of Jane Birkin in a 1967 copy of King Magazine that my sister Kath…
Bath Voice: prestigious architect offers a very different design for the proposed new Bath Rugby Stadium slamming the club’s ideas as ‘lowering the tone of the whole area’ and believing Bath can do better rather than ‘wrecking the Rec’
JULY 31, 2023 By Harry Mottram: First things first – Bath Rugby Club and in particular its stadium or rather ground…
ICSM Business News: as London’s Mayor Khan goes all ULEZ, British Volt’s owners are raided by police and electric car hire firm Co-Cars goes bust – ICSM advises suppliers to be wary of the EV industry
By Harry Mottram: with the news that Tata could build a new electric car battery factory at the former Royal Ordnance…
Axbridge News: things not to say to locals when you move to the town or call in for a visit – words that could lead to you being placed in the stocks!
By Harry Mottram: I posted these notes on the Axbridge Community Face book page as part of a welcome to…
Axbridge News: it’s the book that has got the town reading as the BBC film the whodunnit drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in Axbridge
By Harry Mottram: Residents of Axbridge in Somerset cannot have missed the camera crews and actors closing off streets in…