Axbridge News: updated calendar of events in the town this autumn
Calendar of events in Axbridge Some Axbridge dates coming up. Send Axbridge events to me and I’ll try to keep the…
Axbridge News: update on Cheddar Reservoir 2 with potential questions at the public consultation including those on noise, access and habitat loss, and if there will be cash for local community projects – as information leaflets are distributed
By Harry Mottram: Residents will have received a leaflet from West Country Water and the Environment (WCWE) about Cheddar Reservoir…
Axbridge News: House prices, road collisions, Axe Vale Arts Centre and bus timetables plus Cheddar Res 2, Axbridge Court and the mystery of the missing wheelbarrow
By Harry Mottram: Back in the 1990s I used to write a weekly property column for the Cheddar Valley Gazette…
Bath Voice News: Somerset Confidential’s investigations into the strange case of a wall between the University of Bath and the National Trust’s land and who should repair it – plus other stories
August 29, 2025 By Harry Mottram: I first met the journalist James Garrett back in the 1980s when he penned an…
Bath Voice News: Decision time for Bath Rugby as opponents and advocates for the planned stadium on the Rec await a decision from the Council’s planners – one of the city’s biggest planning issues in years
August 27, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Planners are scrutinising the latest proposals from Bath Rugby for a new stadium to replace…
Axbridge News: consultations on Cheddar Reservoir 2 start on September 3rd; Axbridge Court consultation; a note from the editor about Axbridge News; plus the list of events
By Harry Mottram: With this area running out of water in 2050 – according to West Country Water and Environment…
Book Review: the best account of the Holocaust I’ve read – a true story of a boy and his dad and how they survived six years in Nazi concentration camps – written in this page turner for children
Book Review: I’ve read a number of accounts of those few who survived the Nazi organised Holocaust and Jeremy Dronfield’s…
Book Review: conflicting emotions and childhood fears in Nina Bawden’s Carrie’s War – in a children’s novel about evacuees in Wales
Book Review: Carrie’s War, by Nina Bawden. Protagonists Carrie and Albert bring a maturity of conversation and arguments as each…
Axbridge News: We have ‘a go situation’ – Cheddar Reservoir 2 – public consultation starts in Axbridge in September – details here
By Harry Mottram: An umbrella group for the water companies in the South West has announced a timetable for the…
Axbridge News in Brief: Orchard Road housing development update; Lamb Inn’s refit; Bristol Water latest; volunteers for King John’s Hunting Lodge, and 80 years since VJ Day plus calendar diary
By Harry Mottram: With talks ongoing over ending the war in Ukraine it was perhaps the 80th anniversary of the…