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  • Peppa Pig, Mickey Mouse, Tigger and Friends All Kicked Out of The Brunel Shopping Plaza This Christmas!

    Peppa Pig, Mickey Mouse, Tigger and Friends All Kicked Out of The Brunel Shopping Plaza This Christmas!

    Bureaucracy gone mad, or rightful regulations? Make your own mind up, but kids were upset to see many of their favourite cartoon characters escorted from the Brunel Shopping Centre this Christmas like criminals. Outcry ensued after Alan Reed posted this video, showing security of the shopping centre harshly directing the characters off the premises. โ€œEvery Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ John Coughlanโ€™s Quo @ Long Street Blues Club, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 21st December 2019

    REVIEW โ€“ John Coughlanโ€™s Quo @ Long Street Blues Club, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 21st December 2019

    Deeper And Down By Andy Fawthrop Images by Nick Padmore   This one was billed as Long Street Blues Clubโ€™s Christmas Bash, and it turned into a rare old party. Support act for the night was the irrepressible George Wilding. As usual, he was witty and engaging, a bit sweary, but always charming and completely Read more

  • Award-Winning Limerick Folk Artist, Emma Langford, to Appear at Devizes Arts Festival

    Award-Winning Limerick Folk Artist, Emma Langford, to Appear at Devizes Arts Festival

    I reckon Iโ€™ve been honourable to The Devizes Arts Festival, as in their excitement theyโ€™ve often accidently divulged a booking theyโ€™d rather have kept secret, and Iโ€™ve not yet let the cat out of the bag until they want it unzipped! Said excitement, though, is symbolic of their passion to bring us a wonderfully diverse Read more

  • Great Success for Greg and Alโ€™s Homeless Donation Stations

    Great Success for Greg and Alโ€™s Homeless Donation Stations

    You may recall our year six Bromham girls, Greg and Al, undertaking the mammoth task of creating Christmas Boxes for the homeless. They organised the campaign for people to donate, at various โ€œstations,โ€ including St Nicholas in Bromham and at Beezes in the Ginnel, Devizes. And people did! Dressed in personalised campaign T-shirts, the girls Read more

  • Introducing The Lost Trades; But You Already Know Them!

    Ever heard of The Lost Trades on our local music scene? No? I can guarantee you have, yes, you have, no, really, you have, oh yes you have! No, I’m not trying to baffle you pantomime style on this Sunday close to Christmas, for after years of loose amalgamations, collaborations and supporting each other’s gigs, Read more

  • Sam Bishop in a Cold Kingdom

    Sam Bishop in a Cold Kingdom

    Streaming killed the download star; you have to be of a certain age to get that joke. Feeling my age today, I remembered standing in a record shop in awe at this heavyweight 10โ€ silver disc and being told itโ€™s read by a laser rather than a needle. Laser, beyond cool, like Star Wars. Yet Read more