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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)

Jun 2, 2025 harrymottram
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

May 31, 2025 harrymottram
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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’

May 29, 2025 harrymottram
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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
  • Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Clevedon’s shops; thriving Yatton; quaint Axbridge – the Victorian Guide to the Strawberry Line
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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
    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
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Bath Voice News: what’s on this month

Apr 3, 2025 harrymottram

April 3, 2025 Pick of Diary Events in Bath Sun 30 Mar. Mothering Sunday. Not to be confused with Mother’s Day…

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Bristol Theatre Preview: full casting for the new production of The Beautiful Future Is Coming announced by Bristol Old Vic Theatre

Apr 2, 2025 harrymottram

From Bristol Old Vic Theatre: Bristol Old Vic is delighted to announce the full casting for the new production of The…

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ICSM Sports Insolvency News: As premier league clubs file their accounts why professional football and rugby clubs are in debt

Apr 1, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: If professional football clubs were treated like any other business most would go bust tomorrow as their loans…

Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice News: the Metro Mayor election to replace Dan Norris is just a month away as a sixth candidate joins the battle for the May 1st vote

Apr 1, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: On Thursday, May 1st, 2025, Bathonians can vote in the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority election to…

Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: a letter to the town’s music fans from the creative forces behind the hit songs ‘If I Had You’ and ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’ 

Mar 31, 2025 harrymottram

Well actually the letter was to me but really it’s to everyone in the town – especially those who love…

Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: sex three times a week? You’ve got to be kidding me!  Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass staged in Axbridge Town Hall is more about a broken marriage than Adolf Hitler

Mar 27, 2025 harrymottram

Theatre Review: Broken Glass, Axbridge Town Hall. You don’t have to be Jewish to be terrified of Hitler’s Kristallnacht in…

Bristol News

Bristol News: what’s on in the city this spring

Mar 26, 2025 harrymottram

New tours, redevelopments and exhibitions Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm – redevelopments NEW Spring 2025   The ambitious Project Carnivora at Noah’s Ark…

Axbridge Review

Book Review: tea and cake fuel the detective work of ‘psychic’ Mary McShane in Tony Watt’s whodunnit novel Mary McShane: Psychic Detective

Mar 26, 2025 harrymottram

Book Review: Mary McShane: Psychic Detective The clue is in the title: psychic. You either believe or you don’t believe…

Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: you don’t have to be Jewish and a New Yorker to have a nervous breakdown over Kristallnacht – a preview of Axbridge Community Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass

Mar 21, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: Artistic director of Axbridge Community Theatre John Bailey has put together a first class cast for his…

Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice Sports News: Glory, glory, glory! Big win for Bath Rugby over Exeter in the cup final – plus results from the weekend with Bath City in heaven after beating Tonbridge Angels

Mar 17, 2025 harrymottram

March 17, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Bath Rugby’s Will Stuart enjoyed scoring a try in England’s emphatic win over Wales in…

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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

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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

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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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  • 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
      • Reviews
      • Somerset News
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
      • Bath Voice News
      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
      • Film Reviews
      • Places Reviewed
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
      • Features
      • News
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      • Theatre Previews
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • 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