| Caves' crazy golf offer for voters
is bunkered |
Plans to offer voters
free games of crazy golf in Wookey Hole today appear
to have landed in a bunker Wookey Hole Caves have
been advised that it would not be wise to offer voters
free games of crazy golf on local elections polling
day.
Caves owner Gerry Cottle
wanted to make the offer of a free game on his controversial
golf course as he believed it would increase the turnout
at the polling booths.
But Mendip District Council
told Mr Cottle that the plan could fall foul of rules
regulating local elections .
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| New Pirate Island Adventure Golf
opens at Wookey |
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| iTunes Podcast |
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Wookey
Hole has featured in the UK Adventures with Renault
Koleos podcast The Adventures UK podcast will take you
on an exhilarating journey around some of the best weekend
breaks in the UK.
From
whale watching to Zorbing, there’s something for all
the family! Presented by Classic FM’s Alex James.
Click here to listen (requires iTunes)
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| A Sign Of The Times! |
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A Somerset coach company has finally beaten a 90-year-old
restriction put on them by a tourist attraction on a
narrow picturesque road in the Mendip Hills.
A
sign reading: “This Road Is Not Suitable For Charabancs”
was put up to stop Weston-super-Mare firm Bakers Coaches
from using narrow roads next to Wookey Hole Caves tourist
attraction around 1920.
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| New Circus School opens at Wookey
Hole Caves |
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We will be offering training sessions three times a
week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5 –
8pm for students from the age of 11 upwards.
We
will be teaching circus skills including, juggling,
stilts, wire walking, rope and silks, bungee and trapeze
skills.
Click
here for details
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| New - Cattle Ads! |
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A
herd of rare White Park cattle are set to make a fortune
for their eccentric owner by turning into the most unusual
advertising medium ever invented.
Millionaire
baronet Sir Ben Slade of historic Maunsel
House has stepped in to help promote a nearby fun attraction
after his neighbour had a serious beef with local planning
regulations.
Sir
Ben plans to clothe his livestock in branded cow-rugs
to spread local advertising messages and announcements
despite fears that local councillors had shut the gate
on motorway-side adverts.
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| 7 MILLION CUSTOMERS CAN'T BE
WRONG |
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SOUTH
WEST RETAIL AND TOURIST FOURSOME JOIN FORCES FOR BETTER
BUSINESS
Wookey Hole Caves, Clarks Village, Haynes Motor Museum,
and Brean Leisure Park - four of the South West's most
popular leisure destinations - have put their heads
together and teamed up to promote a joint marketing
strategy for the coming year to stimulate the local
economy.
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| Stolen Dalek returned! |
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Click
here for more info and images...
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| NEW! Valley of the Dinosaurs
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Wookey
Hole are proud to announce their attraction 'King
Kong and the Valley of the Dinosaurs!'
Click
here for a photo story of how Kong was made
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| HRH The Duke
of York opens new buildings at Award-winning Dorset Farmhouse
Cheesemaker |
HRH The
Duke of York, the UK's Special Representative for International
Trade and Investment, opened the new buildings at Ford
Farm on 21 October. The farm makes many varieties including
the ever popular Coastal Cheddar, England's only Cave
Aged Cheddar matured in the caves of Wookey Hole, and
the newly rediscovered Dorset Red. All the cheese is made
by hand on the farm in an Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty.
Click here to read more |
| The King of
Rock & Roll's Teddy destroyed in frenzied attack |
A £40,000 teddy bear
named Mabel formally belonging to Elvis Presley has been
destroyed and £20,000 worth of other teddy bears
were mutilated in this horrific attack by one of the guard
dogs hired to protect them.
Click here for details |
| UK's first
ever Rabbit Wedding |
| A
very special treat happened at Wookey Hole this Easter
with the UK's first ever Rabbit Wedding. However, this
really is ears above the rest as the loving couple that
hopped down the aisle for the first time were non other
than the King Rabbit Roberto, the worlds largest bunny,
and his equally sized lady friend Miss Amy. ROBERTO and
AMY complete with wedding veils and dickie bows burrowed
down from their home in Worcester with a few other outsize
members of his family.
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| Give us back
our witch! |
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NEW WOOKEY OWNER HAS
BONES TO PICK WITH LOCAL MUSEUM
Gerry Cottle, the circus
magnate who purchased the famous West Country tourist
attraction of Wookey Hole last Christmas, is reported
to be considering his position after a local museum
has refused to return an ancient human skeleton, previously
discovered in his caves.
The bones are believed
to be those of the actual Witch of Wookey Hole, long
a legend in the area, and blamed for every misfortune
and illness which overcame the community in the Dark
Ages. Her reign of terror ended over 1000 years ago,
when a young monk turned her to stone with a well-aimed
bucket of holy water.
The skeleton, confirmed
as that of an old female goatherd, who died in suspicious
circumstances, was discovered in the early 20th century
and removed by amateur archaeologist Herbert Balch.
It is currently on display at the Wells & Mendip
Museum, adjacent to Wells Cathedral. Mr
Cottle, well-known as one of the world's most charismatic
circus promoters, has now swapped his Big Top for the
gigantic cavern which attracts around 250,000 visitors
a year. He wants the witches' bones back in his own
museum.
"Naturally the bones
of the Witch of Wookey Hole belong at Wookey Hole, not
down the road at Wells" he said, "I have every
respect for the museum, but ultimately we have a duty
to the public to preserve our heritage and see that
our witch comes home in the end."
The legal position, according
to a museum spokesperson, is currently being investigated,
and she declined further comment until the outcome is
known. Mr Cottle, however, is adamant he'll gain possession
of the skeleton. "When I purchased Wookey Hole
I bought the witch too. This year, next year, however
long it takes, we'll get her back in her cave, you'll
see."
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| COTTLE SAYS
'CHEESE!' AS CHEDDAR COMES HOME TO WOOKEY HOLE! |
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 Gerry
Cottle, once the ringmaster and owner of Britain's leading
circus and now owner of historic Wookey Hole Caves near
Wells in Somerset, is reviving one of the site's oldest
traditions.
He's
bringing cheese back to Wookey Hole, to mature in the
cave's ideal conditions. Four hundred years ago there
was no refrigeration and the caves were the ideal place
to mature cheeses.
The
temperature is a constant 11°C all year round, and
the high humidity is also ideal to stop the cheese drying
out during its maturation storage.
Click
here for more info
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| Sand sculpting
begins in Weston |
| Google
News Alert for Wookey Hole Weston & Somerset Mercury -
Weston-super-Mare, England, UK The event has been sponsored
and supported by Wookey Hole, Weston Town Council, The
Grand Pier, Avon Fire and Rescue and Birse... Click here
for details |
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