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  • Fox Hunting Suppoter Ploughs into Sab with Car

    Fox Hunting Suppoter Ploughs into Sab with Car

    Just a quick one from me this morning, as I’m at a total loss for words. A video has emerged on Facebook from the Herefordshire Hunt Saboteurs of a host and hunt supporter on the Ladywood Estate, home of the Cottesmore Hunt, running over a sab at high speed. The Sab organisation claim it was… Read more

  • Anyone For Table Tennis at Hillworth Park?

    Anyone For Table Tennis at Hillworth Park?

    Yep, it’s true, Devizes’ wonderful Hillworth Park is to get an all-weather outdoor table tennis table, installed over the coming weeks, agreed at a Devizes Town Council recreation and properties committee meeting yesterday.… Funded through the council’s CIL receipts, the project has been a bit ping-pong since the idea was put forward at the beginning… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 26th Oct โ€“ 2nd Nov 2022

    So, Rishi Sunak is prime minister, eh, how about that for diversity? Last time, a woman, of sorts, now an Asian chap. A tax-avoiding billionaire Asian chap with a name which sounds like a brand of orange fizzy-pop, but one nonetheless. You’ve got to wonder who it’ll be next week. My money is on a… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Chaz Thorogood @ The Southgate, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 24th October 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Chaz Thorogood @ The Southgate, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 24th October 2022

    Thoroughly Good Thorogood In Praise Of Sunday Afternoons At The Gate Andy Fawthrop Do you ever get that feeling that each day has its own special feeling, its own atmosphere? ย Do weย even need to talk about Mondays? ย Fridays, especially Friday evening, have that โ€œthank God itโ€™s allย over for another week; letโ€™s go out and have… Read more

  • Wiltshire Against the Badger Cull Expresses Outrage as Farmer Buried an Active Badger Sett

    Amidst the number of other suspicious, much less futilely brutal activities, in the pursuit of rural blood sports, weโ€™re currently knee-deep in the badger cull, set to run until 2025 at least, and Governmentโ€™s dodgy bTB eradication policy plans makes hard reading, but who, locally, bothers with licences anyway? Just lob some peanuts, and fire… Read more

  • Dakar Audio Club; Exeterโ€™s African Secret

    Dakar Audio Club; Exeterโ€™s African Secret

    Such is the universal beauty of Bandcamp, one goes exploring music from another continent and discovers something sublime, from only ninety miles down the M5! If it’s unlikely there’s an Exeter Audio Club in Senegal, there’s certainly a Dakar Audio Club in Devon, whereby afrobeat fusion knows no boundaries. I mean, I went searching for… Read more