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Twas an Average Night Before Christmas in Devizes
It’s an average Saturday night in Devizes, a day before Christmas eve and there’s no grand event at the Corn Exchange, no Long Street Blues night, nothing spectacular to highlight. There’s a festive buzz in town, but it’s slight. Some choose to stay home, only a scattering adorned with tinsel, and fairy lights hats, out… Read more
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The Big Ones: Local Festivals Part 1: January to May 2024
Featured Image: Colin Rayner Photography It won’t be long before the only Quality Street left in the tin are empty wrappers and those toffee pennies no one likes, you’re swapping your Santa hat for your festival jesters one and thinking what a mess you can get yourself into in local fields. Yep, bar humbug, for just… Read more
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In Response to a Facebook Post about Giving up Devizine….
You’re so gullible sometimes, you know that?! It’s not even nearly April Fools yet; I wouldn’t know how to abandon Devizine even if I wanted to, and I’m certainly not going let criticism get to me, for if that were the case, I’d have given up years ago!! Playing the victim card as some do… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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