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Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days) Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers ICSM Print Industry Insolvency News: South London Press folds, Shetland Times for sale as the Press Gazette charts the closure of scores of titles but Ian Carrotte says ‘there is hope’
Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals

Jun 6, 2025 harrymottram
Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge

Jun 4, 2025 harrymottram
Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days)

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Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers

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  • Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals
    Bath Voice Newspaper
    Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals
  • Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge
  • Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days)
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days)
  • Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers
  • Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals
    Bath Voice Newspaper
    Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals
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    Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Clevedon’s shops; thriving Yatton; quaint Axbridge – the Victorian Guide to the Strawberry Line
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    Bath Voice Newspaper
    Bath Voice News: from porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a day today – the long history of school dinners as more children will be eligible for school free meals
  • Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: Rachel Reeves gives the green light for a ‘mass transport system’ for the region – but no mention of trams in Bristol and Bath or reopening The Strawberry Line to Axbridge
  • Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days)
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: thoughts on the expansion of Bristol Airport and what are the alternatives (note – it’s £7 to drop off and pick up these days)
  • Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers
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    Axbridge Review: Rare footage of the 1990 Axbridge Pageant – when a real bull was led into the Square, a cut-purse was placed in the stocks and the Romans featured a platoon of soldiers
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Children’s Theatre Magazine REVIEW Dog-tastic performances in the story of an OCD boy and a pup

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Mucky Pup. The egg Theatre, Bath Rarely does a show seem so perfectly formed. Music, lighting, acting and action all…

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE: the first issue is now out

Nov 2, 2014 harrymottram

Children’s Theatre Magazine has published it’s first issue online at http://tinyurl.com/l8t8urv And you can also see a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3-RQCBIlJ0

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REVIEW Revealed: the secret of being a good detective is er… concentrate at school! Falcon’s Malteser is a good introduction to theatre for boys

Nov 1, 2014 harrymottram

The Falcon’s Malteaser. The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset The Studio space at Poole Lighthouse was crammed with over 100 people on…

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Children’s Theatre REVIEW An Elephant in the Garden: no elephant and not even a garden

Oct 24, 2014 harrymottram

An Elephant in the Garden. Review. Northcott Theatre, Exeter. The elephant in the room for children is that in Simon…

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Rapscallion Magazine FILM REVIEW The Talented Mr Ripley: love Rome in saturated colour and Gwyneth Paltrow’s coats but it’s all about being Simon

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The Talented Mr Ripley I was on way my to the bus stop when I bumped into Simon. “Hi Simon,”…

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Childrens Theatre REVIEW A mesmerising 25 minutes of er… plastic bag ballet. The strange world of Non Nova

Oct 19, 2014 harrymottram

L’après-midi d’un Fœhn-Version 1. Bristol Old Vic Studio Theatre Take one man, six office fans and 30 plastic bags and…

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Children’s Theatre PREVIEW Le plastic bag show set to entertain les enfants dans Bristol

Oct 14, 2014 harrymottram

L’apres-midi d’un Foehn performs in the Bristol Old Vic this week as Non Nova breath theatrical life into the humble…

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Rapscallion Magazine THEATRE REVIEW Off-side: Hoke’s Bluff brings out sport’s humour in a bitter sweet tribute to team games

Oct 12, 2014 harrymottram

Hoke’s Bluff. Bristol Old Vic Studio Theatre Welcome to Cat Country where Tyler is having trouble at releasing the ball…

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Children’s Theatre REVIEW Never work with babies or dead dogs: puppets triumph in Kneehigh’s frenetic show

Oct 12, 2014 harrymottram

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love Songs). Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Main House A creative, comical, kaleidoscopic, cacophonie…

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Rapscallion Magazine MUSIC REVIEW Laughter and arias fill the town hall; but why did the Berlin Cabaret leave the Kit Kat Club behind?

Oct 5, 2014 harrymottram

Berlin Cabaret Axbridge Town Hall With its lists of former mayors inscribed in wooden panels on the walls, it’s newly…

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    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Comment
      • Features
        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Litter picking in the rain
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
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        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
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      • Somerset News
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      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
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      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
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      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
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    • ICSM Business News
    • Print Monthly
    • Somerset Life
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
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        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • West Country Riders
    • Western Daily Press
  • Rapscallion Magazine
    • Features
      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • Beautiful Brides Magazine
      • Ben Nevis and Poo Rock
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Dodgy keepers
      • Don’t punch the critic
      • Drunk Goldilocks
      • Dying for a pee
      • Edward Colston’s statue
      • Footballing nuns
      • Holiday hell
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Maggie Smith
      • Mum on TV
      • Night with Sasha
      • Nobody fell over
      • Perfect cuppa
      • Stonehenge
      • Tenby Part 1
      • The Bag Lady
      • The Spiv
      • Tourists in Rome
    • Opinion
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    • The Magazine
      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
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      • 2015 10 October Issue 3
      • 2015 11 November Issue 4
      • 2016 07 July Issue 05
      • 2017 01 January
      • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
      • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
      • 2022 07 Rapscallion
      • 2022 11 November
      • 2023 01 January Issue 12
      • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023
 

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