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  • McDonalds Coming to Devizes….

    McDonalds Coming to Devizes….

    Yes, you read it right, itโ€™s been confirmed in a Devizes Town Council Zoom meeting this week, permission has been granted after decades of rejections, to build a McDonalds restaurant on the outskirts of town, and work could be starting as early as July. In an exclusive conversation with MP for the Devizes district, Danny… Read more

  • Cult Figures; Deritend, Yes Mate!

    Cult Figures; Deritend, Yes Mate!

    Itโ€™s not just me, is it? Eighteen seconds into the Cultโ€™s She Sells Sanctuary, you know, when it breaks, and youโ€™re like, thatโ€™s it, right there. It matters not what youth culture you were into, at the time, or even now, it doesnโ€™t give a hoot about your favoured genres, haircut, colour of anorak, age,… Read more

  • Song of the Day 33: Andy J Williams

    Song of the Day 33: Andy J Williams

    Having a great album reviewed fairly recently on Devizine doesn’t exclude you from being in the spotlight of our Song of the Day posts. And if it ever does, call me out on it. Just ask me who hell I think I am, Vlad the Impaler, or something similar. Check the review of Buy All… Read more

  • Protect Drews Pond Wood Area

    Protect Drews Pond Wood Area

    Local enviromental campaigners are calling on Devizes Town Council to designate ten areas of land around Drews Pond Wood as Local Green Spaces due to their importance for wildlife, health and wellbeing as well as historical significance. Please sign the petition, here. Drews Pond Wood Project has looked after the Local Nature Reserve since 1990… Read more

  • The Adventures of Councillor Yellowhead: The Case of the Pam-Dimensional Pothole Chapter Two.

    The Adventures of Councillor Yellowhead: The Case of the Pam-Dimensional Pothole Chapter Two.

    Chapter Two: in which we meet the gunman, and Councillor Yellowhead heads out for the mission. Thought Iโ€™d present a weekly story feature, for Sunday entertainment during lockdownโ€ฆ. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the authorโ€™s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,… Read more

  • Crossed Wires with a Timid Deer

    Crossed Wires with a Timid Deer

    OMG, and coming from someone who refuses to use OMG on principle, rather than its blasphemous connotations, that old dogs, new tricks, I donโ€™t usually conform to trending words or abbreviations. I just donโ€™t get the irony. I mean, kids use the word sick to mean something thatโ€™s good. Why canโ€™t they just use wicked… Read more