Wookey News
Send your Boss to the dark, spooky caves of Wookey Hole and help raise money for ChildLine
This year the Have A Heart charity is supporting the NSPCC’s ChildLine, the free telephone and online counselling service for children.
Wookey Hole Cave Aged Cheddar crowned Supreme Champion
Wookeys Hole Cave Aged – the World’s Best Cheese
27/07/2011
A Cave Aged Cheddar from Dorset based cheese makers, Ford Farm Wookey Hole Cave age Cheddar has been crowned Supreme Champion at this year’s International Cheese Awards, winning the accolade ahead of more than 3,700 other competitors.
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE WIZARDS GONE? – Audition Cancelled
WHERE HAVE ALL THE WIZARDS GONE?
Are they taking a well-earned holiday
after ten long years of appearing in Harry Potter films?
NO ONE WANTS TO BE A WIZARD
Audition Cancelled
80-year-old hopes to have broken cave dive record
A new world record for the oldest human ever to take part in a cave dive may have been set at Wookey Hole Caves.
John Buxton from Bedford marked his 80th birthday with a cave dive, swimming 2,000 metres underground and underwater.
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Giant 70K salary for a giant rabbit handler
The owner of the largest rabbit in the world offered a £70K salary for a safe pair of hands to hold the big bunny at events around the globe.
Current Guinness World Record title holder Annette Edwards, 57, was looking for a male handler to show big bunny Alice over the next year.
The credit-crunch busting job was given to the successful applicant at an audition day on April 1 at Wookey Hole Caves in Wells, Somerset.
Whoever gets the role can expect a life-changing year, travelling with Annette to far-flung corners of the globe. Already booked are personal appearances in Paris at the end of April on a television show and the heart of fashion, Milan, in May.
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X Factor Witch voted out – and voted back in again!
The X Factor Witch might have been voted off the show but she has received huge support from her loyal fans from around the world.
Bosses at Wookey Hole Caves had to re-think their decision to sack her after over 25,000 people voted on their website poll – ‘Should the Wookey Hole Witch go or stay?’
Emails and letters of support have flooded in telling bosses the Witch should stay in post.
The Wookey Hole Witch is a much loved character at the Somerset Tourist Attraction and after receiving such incredible support from the online poll, Daniel Medley, Director of Wookey Hole Caves, admitted: ‘I got it wrong, it’s as simple as that. It has made us realise just how important the character of the Wookey Hole Witch is. The Witch does a fantastic job and is a great asset to our company.’
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New Book – 75 Years of Cave Diving & Exploration
Wookey Hole – 75 Years of Cave Diving & Exploration
Editors Jim Hanwell , Duncan Price & Richard Witcombe.
Since the Middle Ages, visitors from all over Britain and beyond have been drawn to the magnificent cave system at Wookey Hole in Somerset where the River Axe flows through a series of grand chambers before emerging into daylight after a journey of over six miles from the top of the Mendip Hills where it sinks at a number of cave systems. These eventually join deep under the hill to form the Axe.
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