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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 10th – 16th November 2022
Deliberating if these weekly roundups are worthwhile, being it’s already on the event calendar came up with some helpful feedback, not much, but some! Seems some don’t like to scroll through the entire month and the roundups work better for them. In that, I could do as I once did before the calendar was set… Read more
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Snap Up Some Orignal Artwork and Help Arts Together
Small Wonders is up and running again this year, an online art auction raising funds for Arts Together, a Wiltshire charity bringing creative workshops to those most in need of social interaction, the vulnerable and elderly. It was one of my most memorable moments working on Devizine, when some years ago I attended a workshop… Read more
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Deadlight Dance of the Dabchicks, and another Painted Bird
Glad I went to Aldbourne, for a freebie trio of must-see bands, including Siouxsie and the Banshees tribute Painted Bird, it was a great night, but….. In 1987 I was but a 14 year-old Essex suburbian lad, who got his first taste of rural Wiltshire peering out of the back window of his Dad’s car… Read more
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Billy Green Three’s Endless Scrolling
That Bill Green and his trio are back, WhatsApping me and spreading the news via social media about his new sardonic rap tune, condemning overuse of social media! Though any hypocrisy in that is forgiven, and not only because it’s an upbeat beguiling track, teetering with Geordie banter and end of the day, pertinent; course… Read more
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REVIEW: Devizes Arts Festival’s Comedy Night @ Corn Exchange, Devizes – Friday 4th November 2022
An Early Night of Fireworks Andy Fawthrop Just when you’re least expecting it, a crackling night of comedy suddenly looms out of the Autumn mist. Here we were on a Friday night for a 400-seat sell-out of the Corn Exchange for Devizes Arts Festival’s Comedy Night.….. And a smashing little box of crackers it was. … Read more
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Hillworth and Coate Housing Developments Rejected
Word on the grapevine is both controversial housing developments, one west of Hillworth Road, and the other off Coate Road in Devizes have been refused permission, Hillworth from five votes to three with one abstention at this morning’s Wiltshire Council Strategic Planning Committee meeting.…. The Hillworth site proposed the odd number of fifty-nine new houses,… Read more
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