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  • Wiltshire Council Replicate Table Mountain in Devizes Potholeโ€ฆ

    Wiltshire Council Replicate Table Mountain in Devizes Potholeโ€ฆ

    โ€ฆ..and other niggly countywide troubles doner meat and chips from Chick-o-Land will stop me ranting aboutโ€ฆ.. Speculation arises if the entire additional ยฃ3.6m awarded to Wiltshire Council from the Department for Transportโ€™s Pothole Fund, has been used to fix just the one pothole on Gains Lane, Devizes, opposite Sainsburys, because there’s bugger all sign of… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Onarole Theatreโ€™s Jesus My Boy @ Merchant Suite, Devizes, 6th June 2023

    Onarole On A Roll Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival is now in full swing. ย On Day 5 it was time for the first theatre offering ofย this yearโ€™s programme. ย Onarole (geddit?) Theatre were in the Corny Bin in the shape of Jonathanย Darby to present a four-scene one-hander entitled โ€œJesus My Boyโ€. ย It was written by… Read more

  • Danny Kruger Throws Toys out of His Pram Over Affordable Housing Development in Devizes

    The BBC News article on overthrowing the Council and his own objections for a new housing development in Devizes received a share from our MP Danny Kruger today, and his accompanying message didn’t take too kindly to it. Up to two hundred new homes have been approved by a government inspector, despite fierce local opposition.… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 7th – 13th June 2023

    Trouble, troublemaker, yeah, thatโ€™s your middle name, oh-oh, sings my homeboy Olly, but really, I ask you, what kind of a parent gives their kids a middle name like troublemaker? Ah, well, sign of times; hereโ€™s the lowdown on everything weโ€™ve found to be doing around these backwaters this coming weekโ€ฆ. Donโ€™t forget thereโ€™s more… Read more

  • CSF Professional Wrestling returns to Devizes

    CSF Professional Wrestling returns to Devizes, on Sunday 25th June for a very special edition of CSF SHOWDOWN! Following multiple sellouts of the venue, The Corn Exchange will again host this spectacular event as twelve top stars arrive to do battle in five Pro Bouts of High Flying, BodySlamming, Action Packed Family Entertainment. The Undisputed… Read more

  • Local Artist Clifton Powell Commissioned by King Charles for Windrush Portrait

    Local Artist Clifton Powell Commissioned by King Charles for Windrush Portrait

    Last time we mentioned local Jamaican-born artist Clifton Powell, he was commissioned for the English Heritage exhibition, โ€œThe African Diaspora in England.โ€ This time he has been commissioned by King Charles and a Windrush Portraits Committee, marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush to Britain, to participate in a series… Read more