Harry Mottram
@harrymottram.bsky.social
Journalist, editor, writer, performer, illustrator and occasional photographer of Cheddar Reservoir in Somerset, England - pictured above.
Axbridge News: Santa in the Square, Rural crime, Trail Hunt ban, Farmers’ Market, work at Lidl site, recycle centre news and Cheddar Reservoir – plus the Axbridge Diary of Events www.harrymottram.co.uk/journalist/a...
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Axbridge News: Santa in the Square, Rural crime, Trail Hunt ban, Farmers’ Market, work at Lidl site, recycle centre news and Cheddar Reservoir – plus the Axbridge Diary of Events www.harrymottram.co.uk/journalist/a...
The Correspondent:
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December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Correspondent:
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What's on news in January at Axe Vale Arts Centre in Axbridge (the former Methodist Chapel in West Street) - and also what's on there and elsewhere in the town at www.harrymottram.co.uk/diary/
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What's on news in January at Axe Vale Arts Centre in Axbridge (the former Methodist Chapel in West Street) - and also what's on there and elsewhere in the town at www.harrymottram.co.uk/diary/
Reindeer News - BBC Somerset story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Somerset reindeer farm could close over zoo licence dispute
The owner of a reindeer ranch has been told she now needs a zoo licence to continue operating.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reindeer News - BBC Somerset story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie’s new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up – still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b... @jonmonie.bsky.social @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social
Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie's new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up - still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook - Bath Voice.
By Harry Mottram: The annual Christmas Pantomime at Theatre Royal Bath has seen its first performances with a new story written by Jon Monie about the further adventures of the boy who never grew up. ...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie’s new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up – still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b... @jonmonie.bsky.social @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social
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Bath Voice Health News: wear a mask if you visit the RUH as levels of flu this winter have risen - posing dangers to the medically vulnerable bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b...
Bath Voice Health News: wear a mask if you visit the RUH as levels of flu this winter have risen - posing dangers to the medically vulnerable - Bath Voice.
From the RUH: We are currently asking all staff, patients and visitors at the RUH to wear face masks in our admission areas. There are high levels of flu and other respiratory illnesses in the local c...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bath Voice Health News: wear a mask if you visit the RUH as levels of flu this winter have risen - posing dangers to the medically vulnerable bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b...
Amazing. Humans just keep getting older. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
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December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Amazing. Humans just keep getting older. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie’s new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up – still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b... @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social @jonmonie.bsky.social
Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie's new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up - still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook - Bath Voice.
By Harry Mottram: The annual Christmas Pantomime at Theatre Royal Bath has seen its first performances with a new story written by Jon Monie about the further adventures of the boy who never grew up. ...
bathvoice.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Bath Voice Theatre Preview: Jon Monie’s new pantomime charts the further adventures of the boy who never grew up – still haunted by a VERY wicked Captain Hook bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/10/b... @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social @jonmonie.bsky.social
Book Review: the friendship of two boys (and their VERY different mums) in Rose Tremain's The Gustav Sonata in a story that reflects Switzerland's wartime existential crisis as the Nazis threaten invasion www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/08/b...
Book Review: the friendship of two boys (and their VERY different mums) in Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata in a story that reflects Switzerland’s wartime existential crisis as the Nazis threaten inva...
Book Review: The Gustav Sonata. By Rose Tremain. If two boys and their mothers can represent wartime Switzerland, then Rose Tremain’s novel The Gustav Sonata can. It not only shines a light on thei…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Book Review: the friendship of two boys (and their VERY different mums) in Rose Tremain's The Gustav Sonata in a story that reflects Switzerland's wartime existential crisis as the Nazis threaten invasion www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/08/b...
Bath Voice News: a brief review of the 120th Open Exhibition of the Bath Society of Artists at the Victoria Art Gallery: www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/05/b...
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Bath Voice News: a brief review of the 120th Open Exhibition of the Bath Society of Artists at the Victoria Art Gallery: www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/05/b...
Bath Voice News: a brief review of the exhibition at The Holburne Museum Illustrating Austen www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/04/b...
Bath Voice News: a brief review of the exhibition at The Holburne Museum Illustrating Austen
December 4, 2025 A visit to the Holburne Museum is always a pleasure with its café, clean toilets, gardens and gift shop – albeit with a 21st century admission of £16.50 (with discounts for st…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Bath Voice News: a brief review of the exhibition at The Holburne Museum Illustrating Austen www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/12/04/b...
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Bath Voice News: What’s on at the theatre this December bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/01/b...
Bath Voice News: What's on at the theatre this December - Bath Voice.
Theatre Picks in Bath Egg TheatreWed 20 Nov-Sun 11 Jan. Snow Mice. Join our three intrepid adventurers on a chilly, mousey expedition to the top of the hill.28 Nov-4 Jan. Aurora. Created by award-winn...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Bath Voice News: What’s on at the theatre this December bathvoice.co.uk/2025/12/01/b...
The comeback kid. Balvinder is the great survivor. Go girl!
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The comeback kid. Balvinder is the great survivor. Go girl!
Great job by the Sports and Social putting up the Christmas lights in Axbridge.
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Great job by the Sports and Social putting up the Christmas lights in Axbridge.
One of the greats - and a former reporter and theatre critic for the Western Daily Press in Bristol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
One of the greats - and a former reporter and theatre critic for the Western Daily Press in Bristol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Axbridge News: The Annual Charity Progressive Supper raises £1,701 in one night with a trio of local charities to benefit including the Food Bank. Full story at www.harrymottram.co.uk/journalist/a...
Axbridge News
Axbridge News: The Annual Charity Progressive Supper raises £1,701 in one night With more than 100 residents taking part in the Axbridge Progressive Supper an impressive £1,701 was raised on the ni…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Axbridge News: The Annual Charity Progressive Supper raises £1,701 in one night with a trio of local charities to benefit including the Food Bank. Full story at www.harrymottram.co.uk/journalist/a...
Bath Voice New Theatre Review: fabulous costumes and great characterisations in The Master and Margarita at the Rondo www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/27/b...
Bath Voice New Theatre Review: fabulous costumes and great characterisations in The Master and Margarita at the Rondo
November 27, 2025 An idea cannot die, and a manuscript cannot be burnt – a reference from Bulgakov’s play staged this week at Bath’s Rondo Theatre. Despite the thought police in 1984, the KGB in So…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Bath Voice New Theatre Review: fabulous costumes and great characterisations in The Master and Margarita at the Rondo www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/27/b...
Bath Voice Theatre Review: The Shiksa Goddess meets the aspiring novelist (and it all goes wrong) in the compulsive relationship story of The Last Five Years at the Ustinov www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/26/b...
Bath Voice Theatre Review: The Shiksa Goddess meets the aspiring novelist (and it all goes wrong) in the compulsive relationship story of The Last Five Years at the Ustinov
November 26, 2025 Theatre Review. The Last Five Years. Ustinov Studio, Bath. In the words of the Beatles song, ‘You say hello, and I say goodbye,’ The Last Five Years is about a romantic …
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Bath Voice Theatre Review: The Shiksa Goddess meets the aspiring novelist (and it all goes wrong) in the compulsive relationship story of The Last Five Years at the Ustinov www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/26/b...
Axbridge News Theatre Preview: It’s WAG on WAG as Rebekah Vardy goes head to head with Coleen Rooney in a very 21st century celebrity legal drama staged in Axbridge Town Hall www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/25/a...
Axbridge News Theatre Preview: It’s WAG on WAG as Rebekah Vardy goes head to head with Coleen Rooney in a very 21st century celebrity legal drama staged in Axbridge Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: In a drama all about saving face, ego and incredible wealth – the footballers’ wives of Jeremy Vardy and Wayne Rooney face each other in court following Rebekah Vardy&…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Axbridge News Theatre Preview: It’s WAG on WAG as Rebekah Vardy goes head to head with Coleen Rooney in a very 21st century celebrity legal drama staged in Axbridge Town Hall www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/25/a...
Bristol News: www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2025/11...
Closure order secured against Bristol property linked to disorder | Avon and Somerset Police
Residents have been unable to use communal space due to fear of visitors to the block, violence, threats, and criminal damage.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The Correspondent Book Review: David Sedaris’s idiosyncratic world of thoughtless fathers, rude friends of friends and people who don’t pack until the removal men arrive www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/23/t...
The Correspondent Book Review: David Sedaris’s idiosyncratic world of thoughtless fathers, rude friends of friends and people who don’t pack until the removal men arrive
Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris A friend of a friend should be beaten to death for her rudeness, collecting boxes of LPs should be illegal, the concept of Easter, and accounts of…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Correspondent Book Review: David Sedaris’s idiosyncratic world of thoughtless fathers, rude friends of friends and people who don’t pack until the removal men arrive www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/23/t...
A huge thank you to all in Axbridge who supported tonight's Progressive Supper in support of a trio of local charities.
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A huge thank you to all in Axbridge who supported tonight's Progressive Supper in support of a trio of local charities.
Axbridge Diary: updated listings with more events for the New Year and beyond www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
Axbridge Diary: updated listings with more events for the New Year and beyond
Axbridge Diary of Events By Harry Mottram: Some Axbridge dates coming up. Send Axbridge events to me and I’ll try to keep the list updated. Email: [email protected] I’ll also post on my …
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November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Axbridge Diary: updated listings with more events for the New Year and beyond www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
Axbridge News: Wagatha Christie cast announced; report on the poetry evening; the MP on ME; gold burglary; and the Boxing Day trail hunting – plus the diary of events www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
Axbridge News: Wagatha Christie cast announced; report on the poetry evening; the MP on ME; gold burglary; and the Boxing Day trail hunting – plus the diary of events
By Harry Mottram: I’ve been having a bit of tidy up of this website some so some articles and features may have disappeared or been relocated. Essentially though Axbridge News is under Public…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Axbridge News: Wagatha Christie cast announced; report on the poetry evening; the MP on ME; gold burglary; and the Boxing Day trail hunting – plus the diary of events www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir; Access Road; Cost of Living help; Progressive Supper; Cheddar Gorge closures; Library closure threat and other Somerset news www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/16/a...
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir; Access Road; Cost of Living help; Progressive Supper; Cheddar Gorge closures; Library closure threat and other Somerset news
By Harry Mottram: Observers of Cheddar Reservoir will have noticed the levels are rising as water is pumped in from an inlet under the Sharpham Road tower. Normally by late November the Res is near…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir; Access Road; Cost of Living help; Progressive Supper; Cheddar Gorge closures; Library closure threat and other Somerset news www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/11/16/a...