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Learn the Art of Chocolate with HollyChocs
Devizes-based chocolate engineer Holly Garner, 2023 Chocolate Champion for the Southwest, has launched her new chocolate classes for the first half of 2024…… From learning how to make her signature caramel (she was Queen of Caramel at Cadburys) to perfect hand-rolled truffles, her classes take place at her Beanery Cafe just outside Devizes. And as… Read more
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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 17th -23rd January 2024
V busy week ahead, too busy to type the word “very,” (though I just did type the word “very,”) despite the cold spell, nothings gonna stop us now, reminding me somewhat of Ollie & Jerry’s theme “Breakin’, there’s no stopping us.” Not that it takes me much to be reminded of Ollie & Jerry –… Read more
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How to Topple the Tories’ Melksham-Devizes Safe Seat Next General Election
Tuesday before Christmas I’m in New Society. I gazed across to a table by the window, recalling an optimistic response from local Labour candidate Rachael Schneider-Ross when I quizzed her if she felt she had a chance in this Tory haven, in 2019. “Never say never,” she replied, predictably, it was not to be.…. This… Read more
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REVIEW – Amazing Double-Header @ Long Street Blues Club, Con Club, Devizes – Friday 12th and Saturday 13th January 2024
What A Way To Start The New Year! Andy Fawthrop Long Street Blues Club didn’t allow the excesses of Christmas and the New Year to slow anything down, and kicked off 2024 in grand style with two amazing, but very different, gigs on the same week-end.…. First up on the stage, on Friday night, we… Read more
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First Line Up Announcement for My Dad’s Bigger Than Your Dad Festival 2024
The organisers of all-day music extravaganza My Dad’s Bigger Than Your Dad Festival have revealed the first acts on the line up for their fourth outing which is to be held at The Old Town Bowl, Swindon on Saturday 20th July 2024…. First to be announced is the return of local legend Gaz Brookfield, along… Read more
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Shit Hits The Kennet; Local MP, Who Voted To Strip Legal Duty on Water Companies to Reduce Harm Caused by Storm Overflows Outraged by Water Company’s Inactions to Reduce Harm Caused by Storm Overflows!
On the eighth day of raw sewage gushing out of overflow drains into the River Kennet at Stonebridge Wild River Reserve near Marlborough, like a gigantic diarrhoea-infected Oliver Reed relieving himself from the effects of a Special Brew and chlorinated chicken festival into the Buxton Spring, Thames Water has done 100% naff all, nada, and… Read more
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