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  • What 2 Do When There is No Skool! School Holiday Activity Ideas for Summer 2022

    What 2 Do When There is No Skool! School Holiday Activity Ideas for Summer 2022

    Yes, itโ€™s that time again, stay-at-home parents. Time to either max your Majestic Wine warehouse loyalty card or fight school holiday boredom like a boss. Hereโ€™s some ideas in Wiltshire and around and about, to occupy your little devils and demigods; you know, save them climbing the walls, and save you some hair…โ€ฆ Itโ€™s not Read more

  • Here’s Your Festival of Brexit!

    It doesn’t even look like a monster, just a monstrosity, but hey, here’s your Festival of Brexit, then. Ha, and you thought you’d be clinking crown-embossed pint margos with Nigel Farage while Jim Davison comperes a Morrissey concert and Jacob Rees-Mogg piggybacks Pritti Patel in the crowd, waving her Union Jack shirt in the air.… Read more

  • Events in Wiltshire Weekly Roundup: 14-17th July 2022

    In the words of the King, โ€œlord almighty, feel the temperature rising,โ€ itโ€™s set to be scorchio this weekend; hereโ€™s what weโ€™ve found to occupy yourself, but remember the code portmanteauโ€ฆ. sunscreen! Iโ€™m a kinda radish colour now as I didnโ€™t listen to my own advice, which you didnโ€™t need to know, but Iโ€™m telling Read more

  • Party For Life Organises Suicide Prevention Gig in Melksham

    Over 6,000 suicides were reported in 2020 in the UK, while marginally less than the previous year, statistics are based on suicide registration, which can take a year or more for statistical agencies to register them. Therefore, 2020 suicide data doesn’t necessarily reflect suicides during the coronavirus pandemic. Regardless of the maths, as that was Read more

  • The Rondo Theatre does Macbeth

    The Rondo Theatre does Macbeth

    Review by Mick Brian Photos by Gail Foster โ€œIt will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.โ€ So says Macbeth to Lady Macbeth following his vision of Banquoโ€™s ghost…. And audiences at the Rondo Theatre Companyโ€™s performances of the titular show last week were not deprived of that substance. From slit throats, gory locks Read more

  • Top Marks For CrownFest

    Top Marks For CrownFest

    Sitting by a controversially purple outside bar, contemplating my debatable definition of the term โ€œfestival,โ€ yesterday in Bishop’s Cannings, while Freddie Mercury sauntered past and the sun toasted me another shade closer to โ€œcalypso berryโ€ on the Dulux colour chart… this isn’t your average day in this sleepy Devizes-hugging parish, it’s the meticulously planned and Read more