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  • BBC Historian David Olusoga Coming to Frome in January

    Renowned professor and historian, David Olusoga will be heading to Frome’s Cheese & Grain on 12 January 2024 to speak on ‘the state of the British Union and why black history matters’…. History is now front-page news, and is contested as never before. Statues have fallen and the reputations of great men have been called… Read more

  • The Closing of Cooper Tyres

    By T.B.D and D Rose for Devizine.The author can be reached at housetyg@gmail.com This month the historic Cooper Tires factory in Melksham which began the Avon Tyres brand closes after more than 130 years of tyre production, with 350 workers losing their jobs….. The rubber factory in Limpley Stoke moved to what was once a… Read more

  • Bumper Christmas Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 20th – 31st December 2023

    Stop for the Noddy Holder moment, it’s Christmas! Our weekly roundup of what we’ve found to do in the wilds of Wiltshire is a bumper edition this week, taking us right up to New Year’s Eve, cos I’ll be a busy as Santa on a mission this yule, and only get the standard two days… Read more

  • Nothing Rhymes With Orange Storm The Southgate

    Nothing Rhymes With Orange Storm The Southgate

    If The Southgate is Devizes’ finest and most reliable pub music venue, it’s usually favoured by an adult crowd. Yet it’s without doubt that Nothing Rhymes With Orange is the most cherished Gen Z band in town. Having not played Devizes since summer, it was a certainty such a free gig would crash the age demographic… Read more

  • The Late but Great Devizes Christmas Shopping Guide!

    Something I was trying to skive off doing this year, being time consuming, is a local Christmas shopping piece, but then this terrible roadworks situation occurred, and not knowing when it would end I invited local businesses with websites and/or delivery options to send us their links. Now we can happily declare DEVIZES IS OPEN,… Read more

  • Courting Ghosts Live Stream For Visual Radio Arts

    Courting Ghosts Live Stream For Visual Radio Arts

    I’m enjoy Monday’s stream from the wonderful Visual Radio Arts, recorded right here in Devizes. They’ve been hosting some great shows recently, from Richard Wileman and Amy Fry, John Watterson, and the Honey Pot. This week was the turn of west country folk-rock band Courting Ghosts…… The first band I managed to catch at last… Read more