Bath Voice News: Empire line gowns, bonnets and riding breeches – the Jane Austen Festival opens in Bath
September 8, 2023 By Harry Mottram: The Jane Austen Festival runs from Friday 8th to Sunday 17th September 2023, and features guided…
ICSM Business News: Birmingham Council issues a section 114 notice after running out of cash but there’s a long history of councils that have gone bust – both Labour and Conservative
By Harry Mottram: Those who can recall the days of Margaret Thatcher may also remember the Liverpool Council’s 1983 Rate Capping…
ICSM Business Insolvency News: shadowy spivs, sharks and chancers make mockery of Wilko’s collapse as the administrators seek a deal with retail rival B&M to save part of the chain
By Harry Mottram: For the 12,500 Wilko staff and the ailing store’s hundreds of suppliers it’s been an unedifying few days,…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Kidderminster, Sheffield and drying bras – a stay with students when supper was peanut butter on toast – this was England in the year of the 1976 drought
Part two of Harry Mottram’s cycle ride to Scotland at a dig at Threave Castle when the UK looked like…
Bath Voice News: a recap of the proposals for a new rugby stadium in the city – the most talked about issue in the city as the new season kicks off
September 3, 2023 By Bath Voice news editor Harry Mottram and John Wimperis of the local democracy service: The architects…
Rapscallion Magazine: the weird night a stranger walked into our Axbridge home and went to sleep – the story as recorded in this BBC Radio 5Live interview at the time
By Harry Mottram: It will be 20 years this April since BBC Radio 4’s Today programme led with the strange story…
Rapscallion Magazine Football Archive: interview with the Bristol Casuals back in the day
In 1997 Chris Badley and Harry Mottram spoke to BBC Radio Bristol about the newly formed Bristol Casuals League –…
ICSM News: property giant Evergrande’s bankruptcy protection threatens not only China’s economy but could hit the UK as confidence in the world’s number two economy plummets
By Harry Mottram: China may be the world’s number two economy, but few economists believe the statistics published by Beijing on…
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…