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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

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’

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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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    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: reviews of the current art exhibitions at the Holburne – the original, the brilliant and the underwhelming

Mar 15, 2025 harrymottram

March 15, 2025 By Harry Mottram: It’s arguably the city’s most impressive art gallery laid out on three floors in the…

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ICSM Business News: Hold on tight – how Trump’s tariffs could affect UK business in 2025 – threatening ‘a very bumpy ride’

Mar 13, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: The old adage that when America sneezes Britain catches a cold is true economically but when the USA…

Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice News: pick of what’s on in March and into April in the city

Mar 12, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram. March 12, 2025 Pick of Diary Events in Bath Sat 15 Mar. Sounds of Our City. Roper…

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Axbridge Review: Government minister visits Cheddar Reservoir and confirms work to start on Cheddar Reservoir 2 as funds are agreed

Mar 12, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: One of the South West’s largest infrastructure projects is set to begin by 2029 with the construction…

Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: From Jane Austen to Ian Rankin and from Harry Potter to Wilkie Collins – 26 years up for one of the town’s book clubs where novels are discussed over a glass of wine

Mar 12, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: From J L Carr’s A Month in the Country to a month in space in Samantha Harvey’s…

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Bath Voice News: Work to repair flood damage to the plant room at Cleveland Pools caused by the 2024 floods continues – meaning they won’t re-open anytime soon

Mar 4, 2025 harrymottram

March 4, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Cleveland Pools will remain closed following the flooding in January 2024. In a statement Paul…

Axbridge Review Somerset News

Axbridge Review – Somerset News: Hatch stage art exhibition near Langport from 15-30 March – Thinking Inside The Box – where the creations are all inside boxes

Mar 2, 2025 harrymottram

Somerset exhibition – THINKING INSIDE THE BOX. 15th – 30th March, weekends only, 11am-4pm By Tina Salvidge of Hatch: Hatch…

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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Eleanor Catton’s ‘environmental thriller’ Birnham Wood gets stuck in the trees until someone gets killed and we have a breathless finish to her novel

Mar 2, 2025 harrymottram

Book Review: Birnham Wood. By Eleanor Catton (pictured – credit the Scotsman) A bit like digging a new vegetable patch…

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Axbridge Review: Cheddar Reservoir’s owner Susan Davy, the CEO of The Pennon Group grilled over leaks, pollution and her £860,000 salary – plus news of Cheddar Reservoir 2

Feb 26, 2025 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: Water bills in Axbridge are to rise by 32% by 2030 as utility firms hike consumer prices…

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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: John Hillaby’s ‘lyrical, revealing and candid account’ of his Journey Through Britain – in a country much changed since 1968 when it was published

Feb 23, 2025 harrymottram

Book Review: Journey Through Britain. By John Hillaby Britain was different in the late 1960s. Most chaps wore jackets and…

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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
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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
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
      • Features
      • News
      • Previews
      • 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