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  • Update on the Crammer

    Update on the Crammer

    Devizes Town Council announced the result of an assessment by the Environment Agency yesterday, following last weekโ€™s outbreak of pollution in Crammar, a spillage from a van fire on the road aside it. Their advise was simply that a sheen โ€œon the surface of the water usually looks worse than it is and although unsightly Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Soft Machine @ LSBC, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 19th March 2022

    Raising The Bar Andy Fawthrop Things are really gearing up on the music scene again, and Long Street Blues Club has a full programme over the next few months.ย  Itโ€™s such a pleasure to attend the Con Club in Long Street, when the atmosphere is so great, and the crowd are so supportive & enthusiastic.ย  Read more

  • Swings and Roundabouts; Hope for Dilapidated Playgrounds in the Devizes Area?

    Swings and Roundabouts; Hope for Dilapidated Playgrounds in the Devizes Area?

    A lengthy but worthwhile report on the state of our playparks and those intending to do something about itโ€ฆ. August 3rd 2019, and Iโ€™d had enough of marching to parish council meetings, emailing Wiltshire Council and talking to brick walls, unsure if I did the latter, but it certainly felt like it. So, I published Read more

  • On The Road With Talk in Code!

    On The Road With Talk in Code!

    You know that millennial movie, Almost Famous, set mid-seventies, where Rolling Stone Magazine mistake a nerdy teenager for a music journalist and send him on the road with an outrageous prog-rock band? It was nothing like that. Neither did it resemble 200 Motels, where a man dressed as a vacuum cleaner convinces you Ringo Starr Read more

  • REVIEW: White Horse Operaโ€™s Spring Concert @ The Town Hall, Devizes โ€“ Friday 18th March 2022

    REVIEW: White Horse Operaโ€™s Spring Concert @ The Town Hall, Devizes โ€“ Friday 18th March 2022

    Opera Is Back! by Andy Fawthrop Friday was a beautiful, sunny day with clear blue skies, and it finally felt as if we were sloughing off the darker days of Winter.ย  The daffs and the snow-drops are out, which always makes it feel that Spring is well under way.ย  White Horse Opera couldnโ€™t have timed Read more

  • Officers from Devizes Neighbourhood Policing Team Spreading Awareness on Child Exploitation

    Officers from Devizes Neighbourhood Policing Team Spreading Awareness on Child Exploitation

    A terrible thing happened; I grew up. Debatable, I know! Doesn’t everyone still hold a penchant for being a kid again? Through rose-tinted specs many of us fondly recall our childhood, and forget how, actually, growing up is psychologically challenging, frustrating at times, even if you had what you’d consider a good childhood. Why oh Read more