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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 it…. August 3rd 2019, and I’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
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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
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REVIEW: White Horse Opera’s Spring Concert @ The Town Hall, Devizes – 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. The daffs and the snow-drops are out, which always makes it feel that Spring is well under way. White Horse Opera couldn’t have timed… Read more
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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
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7% Pay Rise Accepted and Refuse Workers Return to Work
An end to strike action was announced by The GMB Union for refuse workers in Wiltshire today, as Hills Municipal Collections agreed on a 7% pay rise and Wiltshire Council declared they are due to start recycling collections again from 21st March. “There must be no retaliation and members return to work tomorrow,” says GMB… Read more
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Time to Squash Your Wheelie Bin Down!
If 2020 was the year your wheelie bin went out more than you; times are a changin’…… Early in January Wiltshire Council’s proposed budget for this financial year was published, explaining how they’d bridge a budget deficit of over £27m, but ensured residents “business and communities still get access to vital and high-quality services.” Chew… Read more
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