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  • Devizes Kids to Celebrate Jubilee with Professional Artist

    Devizes Kids to Celebrate Jubilee with Professional Artist

    Featured Image: Gerry Lynch. A historic Devizes church will help local children celebrate the Queenโ€™s Platinum Jubilee by giving them the chance to work with a renowned local artist over the jubilee period.… The parish of St John with St Mary in Devizes has partnered with artist Joanna May and historian David Evans to put… Read more

  • Belthane: Whatโ€™s Happening May Bank Holiday in Wiltshire?

    I donโ€™t want to be the burden of bad news, you can blame my stupid, stupid phone weather app; Friday looks okay, 12% chance of drizzle on Saturday, 50% on Sundayโ€ฆ. But honestly, right, you donโ€™t want to believe that, I donโ€™t trust it one iota and I donโ€™t even know what an iota is.… Read more

  • Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    When I started Devizine I never imagined Iโ€™d be writing about a memorial which looked like a litterbin, but I did, because it did, and it was being used as one. Iโ€™m glad to say little over a year later the memorial has been restored to its former glory by Bishops Cannings Parish Council.…. A… Read more

  • Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Type “smack me” into Google, at your own risk, and third predicted search is “…on the bottom with a woman’s weekly.” Six years since her passing, and over three decades since Victoria Wood first performed the Ballad of Barry and Freda her finest hour is everlastingly. Proof while often pushed into the “novelty” pigeonhole, comical… Read more

  • Danny K & The Haters; Hereโ€™s my Small Axe

    Danny K & The Haters; Hereโ€™s my Small Axe

    Danny K & the Haters, sounds like a belligerent rockabilly band, but itโ€™s not, itโ€™s far more shameful than that. Devizes and District MP Danny Kruger turned his back on his constituents this week, labelling them โ€œhaters,โ€ in order to brown-tongue the effortlessly-reasoned worst Prime Minister in English history. And guess how many people asked… Read more

  • Laughable Excuses for Savernake Forest Proposals ย 

    Laughable Excuses for Savernake Forest Proposals ย 

    Last week I tried to convey how Savernake Forest has fond memories for all who live nearby it, and how itโ€™s cherished by users in the same manner today, in the wake of a publication by Forestry England called โ€œOur Shared Forest.โ€ Ironic by title, it seemed to propose restricting the public to set walking… Read more