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Katie Hopkins to Reopen Devizes Cinema in May
Picturedrone, the new owners of the old Palace Cinema in Devizes announced today that the cinema will have a grand reopening as early as May, and media personality turned controversial comedian Katie Hopkins has accepted an invitation to cut the ribbon on the newly renovated establishment…. May is set to be an exciting time in… Read more
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Harmony Asia Can Do This
It’s a question I’ve asked Chippenham singer-songwriter Harmony Asia on each rare occasion I catch her for a chat; if she’s planning to capture a slice of her wonderful performances on record. I guess I will have to find a new request now, but judging by her debut single released today, I Could Do This,… Read more
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A Year into a Lib Dem Wiltshire Council; Chatting with Ben Reed
It’s a Friday, just polishing off a big boy breakfast at New Society. Got the window seat; I ponder how beautiful Devizes Market Place looks from up here, and how we often take it for granted. There’s Ben Reed, Wiltshire Councillor for Devizes North, waving at me from below; he’s coming up for carrot cake,… Read more
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Battle of Bishop’s Cannings Ends in Devizes Defeat
David slew Goliath with a sling and a stone. Bishop’s Cannings Parish Council used evidence, against a group of Devizes Town councillors’ more circumstantial land grab pitch, at Wiltshire Council’s Community Governance Review, and just like David, triumphantly….. More war of words than any military action, though the latter would’ve made a better scoop for… Read more
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How it Feels for a Bluebeard!
The first time I heard the name Bluebeard and the Desperate Hours, I presumed their sound might be folk or blues inspired. Judging a book by its cover, because while this Wiltshire collective’s debut single How it Feels might pertain such elements, I was pleasantly surprised to find it also jumping with feelgood soul…. Taken… Read more
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“Underdog: The Other Other Brontë” at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, March 25th-28th 2026
by Ian Diddams images by Richard Fletcher How many Brontë sisters can you name? Which books did the sisters write between them? Can you name them? Did you get that there were three sisters? That wrote seven books? You may have thought of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights”, but what about “Agnes Grey”? Or “The… Read more
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