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School Children Penalised for Absence Due to Self-Isolating, Why?
Tuesday’s article kicked up a stink on local social media groups, quite literally. They’re still on the subject of dog poo, I’ve moved onto something else now, mate. Something which doesn’t seem to have kicked up quite the fuss I believe it should, and that notion in itself is as symbolic as the issue is… Read more
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Folk Festival to Return to Chippenham’s Streets
After two years of being restricted by the global pandemic, Chippenham Folk Festival returns in person this Spring with three internationally renowned headline acts among its highlights.…. Over the past five decades, Chippenham Folk Festival has become a mainstay of the local events calendar, with people travelling from destinations far and wide to sample some… Read more
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Devizes Guardians’ Doggie Doo-Doo Bag Dispensers
If the Gazelle & Herod knocked a front page together this week from Facebook discussions about a spate of dog fouling in Devizes, with a frustrated looking Conservative Councillor Iain Wallis about centre, grasping a doggie poo bag, independent party of Devizes Town Council, The Guardians have a suggestion to curb the current controversy; installation… Read more
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Town Hall Ups the Volume for Live Music in Trowbridge
Between the Town Hall, The Village Pump, Stallards, Emmanuel’s Yard, and The Civic, Trowbridge’s live music scene is having something of a renaissance …… Next week Sheer Music will announce a new season of lives dates at Trowbridge Town Hall, as Sheer’s chief, Kieran Moore takes over from Gavin Osborn as event coordinator at this… Read more
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Song of the Day 44: Sienna Wileman
Never assume a father posting their daughter’s song on the ol’ book of face is motivated purely by parental pride, and you’ll need to bite lip and humour them. Learned this lesson once before, when a fellow cartoonist friend, Des, did so, and his daughter, Emma Langford was shortly after awarded the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk… Read more
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Breaking; Devizes Mayor Goes to the Loo!
Cue a quite deliberate, massively deceiving, tabloid-fashioned headline, Devizes Mayor Chris Gay visited the town’s superloos today, but not because she was cut short! Staff at our spotless, award-winning public Superloo were thanked by the Mayor this morning, for their ongoing hard work and efforts in maintaining the convenience. Proudly, last month the superloo was… Read more
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