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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’ ICSM Rugby Insolvency News: It’s only a ‘matter of time’ before another top flight rugby club goes bust
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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
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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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  • 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
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    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
  • 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’
    ICSM Business News
    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’
  • 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
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    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
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  • 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
  • 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’
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Children’s Theatre PREVIEW RSC’s new season includes Shakespeare’s ‘Dream’ comedy

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Get yer Bottom in gear for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in er… 2016) The new season’s highlights include: • Miller…

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Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Loose leaves or tea bag; milk or lemon? And was George Orwell right? The arguments over the making of the perfect cuppa

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Was George Orwell right about making tea, or does the University of Nottingham have the know how? Aunt Agatha has…

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Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW The agony and the irony: Guy wanted to be a hero and very nearly did in Evelyn Waugh’s comic World War II triology

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Sword of Honour. By Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Classics (1965) The characters simply swagger off the page. Trimmer with his undeserved…

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Children’s Theatre PREVIEW The Secret Life of Suitcases: an eccentric play for children at London’s Unicorn Theatre. Opens on 18 September

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Larry works in an office and he likes it very much. He likes sorting and tidying and generally putting things…

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Rapscallion Magazine FILM REVIEW Parents are such an inconvenience (especially when they drop dead) in Ozu’s daughter-from-hell story

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Tokyo Story (1953) She’s bossy, selfish and out for herself. And if you drop dead she’ll go through your stuff…

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Rapscallion Magazine TALKING BOOK REVIEW Bill Wallis’ “dunked ginger nut of a voice” reads Illies’ 1913 The Year Before The Storm

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1913 The Year Before The Storm. By Florian Illies. Chivers Audiobooks. Read by Bill Wallis. (2013) We draw back the…

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Rapscallion Magazine WHAT’S ON Swallows and Amazons returns to the Bristol Old Vic

Aug 5, 2014 harrymottram

BRISTOL Old Vic SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS Thu 27 Nov-Sat 17 Jan 15. Eyebrows were raised when Tom Morris brought Arthur…

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Will you be my Facebook friend? My former flatmate from Bridgend? It’s been some thirty years last March, Since you…

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Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Why aren’t children scared of pirates?

Aug 3, 2014 harrymottram

Are pirate captains really posh boys gone wrong? Harry Mottram sets sail to investigate the unscary world of pirates and…

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Rapscallion Magazine WHAT’S ON Miller’s daughter in battle of wits with Rumplestiltskin at the egg this Christmas

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BATH The egg: Rumplestiltskin. Thu 27 Nov 2014-Sun 4 Jan 2015. The egg’s Christmas show is a musical based on…

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  • Publications
    • 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
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
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      • Somerset News
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
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      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
      • Film Reviews
      • Places Reviewed
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    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
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      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
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      • REVIEWS: Books
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      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • 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
      • Reviews
        • 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
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Cinema
      • Radio
      • Theatre
      • TV
    • The Magazine
      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
      • 2015 09 September Issue 2
      • 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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