A David v Goliath battle has broken out in the USA over the share price of a shop that you’d expect to collapse when the lockdown began. GameStop is computer game and merchandiser with more the 5,500 stores across the globe that began life in 1984 as Babbage’s in America. The lockdowns have forced the […]
A quartet of central characters, drive the plot of The Big Short, as they uncover the extent of the sub-prime mortgage scandal in the USA in 2007. Without one main protagonist the story lacks a clear focus on a single narrative but makes up for it by illustrating the unravelling scandal with graphics, straight to […]
Green light for town’s 2022 Pageant The Pageant will go ahead next year as planned. That was the decision made by the Axbridge Pageant Committee on January 18th, when a Zoom meeting was held to discuss the situation in light of the on-going Covid-19 crisis. There is one important caveat, of course, that the event […]
By Harry Mottram for Bath Voice At the top of Holloway linking Bear Flat to the city centre is Hayes Place and if you haven’t stopped for some fish and chips or a coffee in The Good Bear cafe you might miss it.The Council, traders and the Bear Flat Association representing the residents, want to […]
Those who are long in the tooth can remember the horror of Black Wednesday in 1997 when interest rates briefly went up to 15% as the Chancellor attempted to end a sterling crisis prompted by linking the pound to the Euro in the ERM. Thousands of home owners couldn’t pay their mortgages as their monthly […]
An economic think tank has predicted something that every business in the UK has predicted: we are about to enter a double-dip recession. A recession is defined by negative economic growth in two successive quarters. In 2020 Q1 and Q2 saw negative growth but the summer’s respite and Eat Out To Help Out saw Q3 […]
Cheers broke out in small businesses across the UK today as the Supreme Court backed them in a dispute with insurers over disputed coronavirus business interruption claims potentially worth £1.2bn. The Axbridge Chamber of Commerce’s secretary Harry Mottram said common sense had prevailed. He said: “Nobody takes out insurance that is worthless – so of […]
Firms who pay business interruption insurance will learn today if they will be able to claim after being shut down by the Covid-19 crisis. The Supreme Court will make the ruling which could see over a billion pounds worth of insurance paid out to struggling businesses. Waste of money The BBC reported on London hair […]
Everything is different in Bernadine Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other, so that everything can be the same – to paraphrase Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in The Leopard. Why? Because and despite of her free flowing style with no punctuation and written in a stream of consciousness technique, the twelve short stories fused into each other […]
Across the UK, members of the public have received fraudulent text messages claiming to be from the NHS offering them the opportunity to sign up for the Covid-19 vaccine. The texts ask the recipient to click on a link which takes them to an online form where they are prompted to input personal and financial […]
From The House on the Square to Dodgy Keeper… Stretchmark Theatre stages plays written by Harry Mottram. It effectively began in 1997 with the pantomime Humpty Dumpty staged in Axbridge
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The Rapscallion is an occasional online magazine written and illustrated by Harry mottram. Last issue included:
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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Additional Restrictions Grants APPLY FOR THE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS GRANT TO HELP MITIGATE IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) DURING NATIONAL LOCKDOWN Following the Government’s decision to award the local authorities
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Currently Bristol Water are building a pipeline from Cheddar to Barrow using part of the Strawberry Line as their conduit for the work. Before this work they wanted to construct
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New book on one midwife’s journey Midlife to Midwife by Linda Mottram After a bad day childminding and following one too many glasses of wine, this book takes you through
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STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – Theatre Review: And so it came to pass that an anarchic and highly enjoyable version of the Nativity took place with Kid Carpet and a hedgehog
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