Axbridge News: The former Royal Ordnance Factory site at Puriton is confirmed as Tata’s £4bn electric car battery location – but the debate on what should power cars continues
By Harry Mottram: back in the 1970s an ex-boyfriend of my sister in law used to work at the Royal…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: it’s Dellarobia against the world in a story of butterflies, scientists and sheep farmers
Flight Behaviour by Barbara KingsolverOne part environmental lecture and one part rural domestic drama, Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour gets stuck…
Axbridge News: Somerset County Council agrees on its budget after acrimonious debate with the fate of Cheddar’s Recycling Centre still in doubt
By Harry Mottram: On February 20th, 2024, Somerset County Council finally agreed on its budget for the coming year with…
Axbridge News: ‘everything Axbridge’ at the Annual Assembly Meeting as the Town Council announces date and agenda – with everyone invited – including the police
By Harry Mottram: It’s essentially a house meeting when a family comes together to hear from each member – what…
Axbridge News: residents warmly greet the news that duo Marina Czyzew and David Rogers are set to take charge of the Oakhouse Hotel
By Harry Mottram: The Oakhouse Hotel has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately after the dramatic…
Axbridge News: monthly Somerset publication goes public over money it says it is owed by a local pub – as the pub changes its name
By Harry Mottram: Those who pass through Shipham on a regular basis will have noticed the Penscot Inn – the…
Axbridge News: political update on one of the town’s most contentious subjects – the annual Boxing Day hunt meeting in Axbridge Square
By Harry Mottram: For as long as anyone can remember there have been fox hunting meetings on Boxing Day across…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Preview: in the week Putin critic Alexei Navalny is murdered a play about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London is brought to the stage in Bristol
A Very Expensive Poison, at Circo Media: This week Alexei Navalny was been murdered on the orders of Putin, while…
Axbridge Book Review: Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (and soon to be a BBC3 series) is an unfeasible but highly enjoyable and neatly plotted whodunnit about schoolgirl Pip who uses blackmail, bluff and burglary to bring a murderer to justice
Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson. Sex, drugs and murder. Yes, Holly Jackson’s young adult…
Axbridge News: the BBC3 series based on Holly Jackson’s novel A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder filmed in Axbridge is set to be screened
By Harry Mottram: For several weeks in 2023 Axbridge was the setting for the filming of the Holly Jackson’s novel…