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  • Boots & Braces; All Set For Devizes Scooter Rally?

    Boots & Braces; All Set For Devizes Scooter Rally?

    If Market Lavington hold their Vintage Meet next weekend, thereโ€™s another slice of retrospection a fortnight after, on the other side of town, as Devizes Scooter Club tie their boots, affix their braces and hope to replicate the absolute magic of their first Devizes Scooter Rally, post-lockdownโ€ฆ… The 2019 rally attracted scooter enthusiasts and adherents Read more

  • Local Optician Backs National Campaign to Help Childrenโ€™s Sight

    Independent optician, Haine & Smith, are backing a national campaign this summer to raise awareness of the link between screen time and short-sightedness in children.…… Myopia is a growing, global, epidemic linked to the amount of time spent looking at tablets, phones and TV screens. If left un-diagnosed, this can cause serious eye problems in Read more

  • Lord Lieutenant Helps Devizes Resident Celebrate Jubilee Award

    Lord Lieutenant Helps Devizes Resident Celebrate Jubilee Award

    Her Majestyโ€™s Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire has come to a Devizes church to help a Devizes resident celebrate a locally unique Jubilee award.… Sarah Troughton came to St Johnโ€™s Church in Devizes to congratulate Alice Boyd, who worships at the church, on being Wiltshireโ€™s only winner of the special Platinum Champion Award, which have been Read more

  • The Only Thing I Have in Common With Danny Kruger is Not Knowing When to Keep My Big Mouth Shut!

    The Only Thing I Have in Common With Danny Kruger is Not Knowing When to Keep My Big Mouth Shut!

    Featured image by Gail Foster A hard piece to draft today, reflecting a week after Devizes MP Danny Kruger tried to rewind women’s rights a hundred years by riskily casting his antiquated, and frankly, narrow-minded views on the subject of abortion, because I’m adamant not to make this an opinion piece, for my opinion matters Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Stuff to Do: 7th-14th June

    Heatwave on its way, Iโ€™m led to believe; itโ€™s the first full week of July, hereโ€™s what weโ€™ve found to do in and around Wiltshire, unless you know of something we missed? Details and links HERE… let’s go out to play…. Ongoing is the opportunity to have a nose around artistโ€™s studios, yes, itโ€™s the Read more

  • Jon Amor, Friends, and the Southgate

    Jon Amor, Friends, and the Southgate

    Jeepers. No one works that hard on a Sunday, surely? Even if your boss shoves a Sunday shift unwillingly on you, you brush as much as you can under the carpet; anything which can wait until Monday, should do. I’ve mentioned it in passing, but not given Jon Amor’s monthly residency at the Southgate full Read more