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Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre Axbridge Review: news in brief – Arts Centre set to open; rumble in the jumble on Saturday; cakes at carnival cafe; police clamp down on dodgy airport parking; and the WAGS are coming
Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade

Jun 16, 2025 harrymottram
Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push

Jun 14, 2025 harrymottram
ICSM Business News

ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt

Jun 12, 2025 harrymottram
Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre

Jun 12, 2025 harrymottram
Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review: news in brief – Arts Centre set to open; rumble in the jumble on Saturday; cakes at carnival cafe; police clamp down on dodgy airport parking; and the WAGS are coming

Jun 12, 2025 harrymottram
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  • Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade
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    Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade
  • Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push
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    Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push
  • ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt
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    ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt
  • Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre
  • Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade
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    Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade
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    Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Powerful Georgian women with a Churchill connection
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    Bath Voice Newspaper
    Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade
  • Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push
  • ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt
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    ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt
  • Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre
    Axbridge Review
    Axbridge Review: more photos of the interior of the former Methodist Church in the town reveals the potential as an arts centre
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My home town of Seaton when I was a teenager in the 1930s

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When Rupert Murdoch sacked 5,000 workers and changed the course of newspaper production history

Apr 13, 2015 harrymottram

The Wapping Dispute changed newspaper production for ever. An exhibition at St Bride Foundation gives some back ground to the…

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Express & Echo VIDEO From IDS to the mystery of the road that goes nowhere

Apr 6, 2015 harrymottram

Since joining the Express and Echo newspaper I  have been covering, elections and politics, crime and the justice system as…

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FILM Oh please go away clouds and let the eclipse be revealed!

Mar 30, 2015 harrymottram

Could this be the most disappointing video of an eclipse ever?!

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Print Brazil VIDEO Rough cut: family firms, books and bars

Mar 29, 2015 harrymottram

Print Brazil is a rough cut taken from a trip to Sao Paulo Harry made in August 2014. There’s more…

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Theatre REVIEW Back to the future with Dario Fo’s sparkling script and a youthful cast firing on all shopping bags

Mar 21, 2015 harrymottram

Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! Cygnet Theatre, Exeter With zero hours contracts, the minimum wage and exorbitantly high rent and utility…

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Bitching, back-biting and a punch-up: the perfect warm-up for the General Election!

Mar 12, 2015 harrymottram

The Absence of War. Bristol Old Vic. Is George Jones going to win the election? Can Ed Milliband beat David…

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NEWS Crimes, murders and misdemeanours: Harry Mottram is appointed city crime reporter

Feb 23, 2015 harrymottram

OK… maybe not murders, but definitely crimes. Harry Mottram is covering crime in Exeter for the Express and Echo newspaper…

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PHOTOGRAPHY New page dedicated to images of Cheddar Reservoir

Feb 15, 2015 harrymottram

I run around the reservoir most days and often twice a day. Built in the 1930s Cheddar Reservoir is strawberry…

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“Where’s me zimmer frame?” New cartoon for Print Monthly

Feb 13, 2015 harrymottram

The cartoon supports an editorial in Print Monthly that suggests print workers are all getting too old with not enough…

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VIDEO Streetlight Festival in Oxford: something special happened in Magdalen Street

Feb 12, 2015 harrymottram

A short film to give a flavour of the pop up festival held in Magdalen Road, Oxford, on Saturday 22nd…

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Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice News: it’s Blue, Black and White heaven as Bath Rugby beat Leicester at Twickenham – ending one of the greatest seasons ever for the club as thousands turn out for the victory parade

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Axbridge Review

Axbridge Review News in Brief: Rumble in the Jumble; Axe Vale Arts Centre in the Methodist Church update; Shakespeare play in a farm; and Axbridge Cricket Club recruitment push

Jun 14, 2025 harrymottram
ICSM Business News

ICSM Retail Insolvency News: going for a pound – or not – as it appears that Poundland owes ‘millions’ putting the sale to Gordon Brothers in doubt

Jun 12, 2025 harrymottram
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  • Home
  • About Harry
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    • Comedy
    • Freelance
      • Design and copywriting
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    • Illustrations
    • Playwright
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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
      • 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
 

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