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Chatting with Vanessa Tanner; Guardian Candidate for Devizes East
While it may’ve been a week of social media turmoil at Devizes Town Council, the type usually reserved for national politics, a few hours prior to the uproar, I put the phone down after the kind of conversation which left me feeling more like I’d been catching up with an old friend, rather than interviewing… Read more
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Bradford-on-Avon Raises £250,000 For New Skatepark
Communities, getting together, fundraising, and doing something good for their town’s youth. It might sound like the stuff of Terry Pratchett fantasy here in Devizes right now, but over in Bradford-on-Avon, it’s a reality….. They’ve successfully raised their £250,000 target and invited the town to come and see their new skatepark designs earlier this afternoon… Read more
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Here Comes the Girls; Celebrating International Women’s Day with our Local Musicians
Opps, it didn’t occur to me until afterwards, we only had the lads play for us at my birthday celebration at the Three Crowns on Saturday. Not intentional, just the way the cookie crumbled, but it’s no coincidence that today, my actual birthday, falls on International Women’s Day! Like any other industry, the history of… Read more
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Potterne, and its Festival
It’s one Devizine overlooked somewhat last year, arranged rather last minute, clashed with Full-Tone, but was still a 1,250-strong sell-out nonetheless. Potterne is not all about Ruth Pearce and Mummer plays, it has an annual festival, and so I caught up with organiser Richard Fred Kerley, to question him about this year’s. Two hundred tickets… Read more
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What Passes for Entertainment in Seend, Rolling Naked in Muck Heaps?!
Got to be the most bizarre village group Facebook post of the week, when Seend resident Amy Plumb caught a fellow rolling in her neighbour’s muck heap on Sunday evening, stark naked! They’ve got their community centre and two great pubs, is this what passes for entertainment in Seend, or just in the Cleeve, I… Read more
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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 6th – 15th March 2023
Still a tad fragile around the edges from my birthday party, here’s what’s I’ve struggled on through to find for this coming week, in which I was, last week, perhaps somewhat too optimistic about the coming of spring. Pass the Alka-Seltzers……. As usual, further info and links to everything listed can be found on our… Read more
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