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  • Help Carmela, and the National fight against Muscular Dystrophy

    Help Carmela, and the National fight against Muscular Dystrophy

    Itโ€™s a laborious task to compile an end of year review, as we did last year on Devizine, which Iโ€™m currently undertaking. It involves picking through the archives to reminiscence, as thereโ€™s so many wonderful things weโ€™ve done I tend to forget some! Others, though, will remain with me forever. If I had to pick Read more

  • No Surprises Living in Devizes; Returns for a Last Local Political Conclusion

    No Surprises Living in Devizes; Returns for a Last Local Political Conclusion

    I was delighted to have met all of our local candidates and interview them prior to this election thingyโ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ฆ wha? Missed one you say? Yes, I must be terribly bias, just like real newspapers. I favour to call it common sense, and I have reasonsโ€ฆ. Through all this political point scoring one thing is certain, Read more

  • Tickets for Winter Ale

    Tickets for DOCA’s Devizes Festival of Winter Ales 2020 at the Corn Exchange on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th February 2020 are now on sale….. The Devizes Festival of Winter Ales is a fundraising event to help meet the costs of DOCAโ€™s free annual programme of outstanding outdoor arts events and activities, including the Devizes Read more

  • Great Night at The Cellar Bar, for Devizes Open Doors

    Great Night at The Cellar Bar, for Devizes Open Doors

    Images nicked from Nick Padmore, cos we love him, and his new lens! Local musicians, George Wilding, Vince Bell and the Celtic Roots Collective united for a Devizes Open Doors Christmas fundraiser down in that Cellar Bar on Friday night, dragging me kicking and screaming from my outings on Friday nights embargo; least I still Read more

  • Middle Yellow: An Interview with Local Lib Dem Candidate, Jo Waltham

    Middle Yellow: An Interview with Local Lib Dem Candidate, Jo Waltham

    Now I know what you think; Iโ€™ve got red on me, politically speaking. Really! Iโ€™m just trying to know whatโ€™s best for everyday people, and my family. Truth is I could clash an orangey colour (no, not skin tone, do I look like Trump?!) Iโ€™ve added a hint of yellow in the past but they Read more

  • Ruzz Guitar’s Blues Revue at the Southgate

    Ruzz Guitar’s Blues Revue at the Southgate

    Hibernation, like a bear, saving motivation and funds for Christmas, spent too much at the Lantern Parade? Ah, a bit of all three meant it was only to be a whistle stop at the Southgate Saturday night. When I shouldโ€™ve been at the Shamโ€™s Assembly Hall for the Female of the Species, and I shouldโ€™ve Read more