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  • Harmony Asia Can Do This

    Harmony Asia Can Do This

    Itโ€™s a question Iโ€™ve asked Chippenham singer-songwriter Harmony Asia on each rare occasion I catch her for a chat; if sheโ€™s planning to capture a slice of her wonderful performances on record. I guess I will have to find a new request now, but judging by her debut single released today, I Could Do This,… Read more

  • A Year into a Lib Dem Wiltshire Council; Chatting with Ben Reed

    A Year into a Lib Dem Wiltshire Council; Chatting with Ben Reed

    Itโ€™s a Friday, just polishing off a big boy breakfast at New Society. Got the window seat; I ponder how beautiful Devizes Market Place looks from up here, and how we often take it for granted. Thereโ€™s Ben Reed, Wiltshire Councillor for Devizes North, waving at me from below; heโ€™s coming up for carrot cake,… Read more

  • Battle of Bishop’s Cannings Ends in Devizes Defeat

    Battle of Bishop’s Cannings Ends in Devizes Defeat

    David slew Goliath with a sling and a stone. Bishop’s Cannings Parish Council used evidence, against a group of Devizes Town councillorsโ€™ more circumstantial land grab pitch, at Wiltshire Councilโ€™s Community Governance Review, and just like David, triumphantlyโ€ฆ.. More war of words than any military action, though the latter would’ve made a better scoop for… Read more

  • How it Feels for a Bluebeard!

    How it Feels for a Bluebeard!

    The first time I heard the name Bluebeard and the Desperate Hours, I presumed their sound might be folk or blues inspired. Judging a book by its cover, because while this Wiltshire collective’s debut single How it Feels might pertain such elements, I was pleasantly surprised to find it also jumping with feelgood soul…. Taken… Read more

  • โ€œUnderdog: The Other Other Brontรซโ€ at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, March 25th-28th 2026

    โ€œUnderdog: The Other Other Brontรซโ€ at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, March 25th-28th 2026

    by Ian Diddams images by Richard Fletcher How many Brontรซ sisters can you name? Which books did the sisters write between them? Can you name them? Did you get that there were three sisters? That wrote seven books? You may have thought of โ€œJane Eyreโ€ and โ€œWuthering Heightsโ€, but what about โ€œAgnes Greyโ€? Or โ€œThe… Read more

  • 7 Hills to Trowbridgeโ€™s Old Town Hall

    7 Hills to Trowbridgeโ€™s Old Town Hall

    To clear up any confusion, Trowbridgeโ€™s old town hall is no longer the town hall, but The Old Town Hall. I have no idea, nor care to know if there’s a new town hall; that’s irrelevant. Whilst still owned by the council, it was refurbished and reopened as a charity funded arts centre and cultural… Read more