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  • A Sneak Peek at Devizes Arts Festival 2023

    A Sneak Peek at Devizes Arts Festival 2023

    I’m having a nose at Devizes Arts Festival website, as they’ve just published this year’s line-up, which you can find HERE. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know of this year, but that’s no bad thing, because I’m something of an uncultured swine! This wonderful annual arts festival on our doorstep has cultured me;… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 15th- 21st March 2023

    Windy but warm, no, not me, the weather, I mind my manners, I thank you! Here’s what’s going down this coming week across our green and (mostly) pleasant land…… You should know the score by now, adding links here, ain’t nobody got time fer dat! You can find all that, details, links for tickets and… Read more

  • An Amazing Devizes Concert for Opendoors

    An Amazing Devizes Concert for Opendoors

    All images used with permission of Gail Foster If of recent I’ve been critical about counterproductive steps taken to solve the rise in youth crime, favouring encouraging events designed for our youngest, it doesn’t mean any age demographic should miss out on live entertainment. Therefore, it was a blessing last night to see the Corn… Read more

  • Chatting with Vanessa Tanner; Guardian Candidate for Devizes East

    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

  • Bradford-on-Avon Raises £250,000 For New Skatepark

    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

  • Here Comes the Girls; Celebrating International Women’s Day with our Local Musicians

    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