John Crockford-Hawley

Why do men and women voluntarily risk their own lives without career, financial, or social reward?

Worle, Uphill and Kewstoke’s churches have been here since at least Norman times, but Weston’s equally ancient place of worship no longer exists.

See Monster is here and, unlike the spoof version in Loch Ness, is brazenly visible.

It’s 1822. You’ve left London and come to Bath for ‘the season’. There’s a whiff of hedonism amongst the visiting upper class. Virtue and money will be easily lost and the pox easily caught.

When news of national significance breaks a local rag is seldom first with the story but last week’s edition of the Mercury was genuinely heralded an ‘Exclusive’. Of necessity few knew what was happening until the Wednesday evening when a significant number of movers and shakers assembled at Weston Museum to hear Unboxed announce their See Monster concept to the world.

WITH every seat taken at the annual Carols by Candlelight event in All Saints’ Church last Wednesday, the capacity congregation was stunned to hear of the sudden death earlier that day of Christopher Manners, the church’s organist and director of music.

What is a newspaper? For just over 300 years the modern English version has been broadcasting news, disseminating information, offering opinion, entertaining, lampooning, irritating, giving platform to those who may or may not have something worthwhile to say, and generally underpinning the prejudices of readers and proprietors alike.