Grammy nominated Kim Richey needs no introduction to fans of glorious American songwriting. Her new record Edgeland continues the upward trajectory of a an excellent career. The Los Angeles Times claims that “She writes some of the most beguiling melodies and freshest chord changes of her generation.” With a stellar supporting cast of Chuck Prophet...

Blood & Butchery in Bedminster — where graves were robbed by body snatchers, and corpses buried in concrete coffins. Where the old Chinese laundry vanished years ago, and where ‘laundering’ now means money, big money, 13 million, ‘laundered’ through a Bedminster bank. Where criminals were sentenced to hang in public, their cadavers flayed, their skin tanned and...

Bedminster — where graves were robbed by body snatchers, and corpses buried in concrete coffins. Where the old Chinese laundry vanished years ago, and where ‘laundering’ now means money, big money, 13 million, ‘laundered’ through a Bedminster bank. Where criminals were sentenced to hang in public, their cadavers flayed, their skin tanned and made into…… the answer...

Sarah Guppy — the first woman to patent a bridge and the first to formally design one. Engineer, inventor, campaigner, designer, reformer, writer, environmentalist and business woman, to name but eight. Born in Birmingham in 1770 as the Industrial Revolution revved its engine. She moved to Bristol to marry merchant Samuel Guppy. Her other patents include a breakfast machine...