Axbridge News: Everything you wanted to know about this year’s Axbridge Progressive Supper but were afraid to ask!
The Axbridge Charity Progressive Supper By Harry Mottram: How does the progressive supper work? Easy – just read these notes…
Axbridge News: Town’s new park ‘requires planning application’; new estate planned off Orchard Road is back on; Carnival results; Football; Panto news; Progressive Supper tickets; and the Axbridge Diary
By Harry Mottram: The weather Gods smiled on Axbridge for the annual September Blackberry Carnival and fun fair with a…
The Alternative Correspondent: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset and posing penniless at Hampton Court… confessions of an out of work 1980s art student
By Harry Mottram: It was May 1980 and after spending the previous four years at art college in Taunton I…
ICSM Insolvency News: how some charities collapse into administration leaving their suppliers unpaid and staff sacked (and in one case blow the income on luxury spas)
By Harry Mottram: Charities are no different from businesses – some are tiny and run by volunteers, some large run…
Axbridge News: at last, finally a decision by planners on the proposed Axbridge Gypsy and Traveller Site west of St Michael’s on the main road
Sep 20, 2026 By Harry Mottram: The application for a change of use of land to the ‘west of St…
The Alternative Correspondent: nine wines, two hours plus cheese – and a lot of village gossip in Shipham’s wine tasting night
By Harry Mottram: It was a birthday treat from my son Ashley who invited me along to SWIG (Shipham Wine…
The Alternative Correspondent: ghosts of the past haunt the ‘hollowed out’ interior or Hestercombe House while the 50 acre gardens are silent witnesses to its 20th century decline and restoration
By Harry Mottram: It was clearly a chaotic scene in the early 2000s as visitors to Hestercombe Gardens near Taunton…
ICSM ECONOMIC NEWS: As diesel costs and inflation rise Ian Carrotte gives SMEs some tips on getting paid on time
By Harry Mottram: The USA have hiked interest rates to 4% today (17th September 2026) sending economic ripples across the…
The Alternative Correspondent: Thoughts on Strictly Come Dancing’s West Country entrants of the past and present – with hopes this year resting on Bath’s Olympian Tabby
By Harry Mottram: Joe Sugg, George Clarke, Angela Rippon, Ruth Langsford, Bill Bailey and this year Tabby Stoecker from Bath…
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir 2; Lidl; A38; Meadow Street; Gypsy site; hosepipe ban; musician’s CD release; football; Wessex Water roadworks listed with dates; and the Axbridge Diary – plus a thankyou to the postbox knitters
By Harry Mottram: Firstly just a thank you for the people who create these wonderful knitted postbox toppers in Axbridge.…