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  • Charley Says, Farewell…….

    It was a long time coming but we finally made it. It was dawn now, a fog fell upon the disused airfield at Enstone, Oxfordshire. My best friend skipped out of the car milliseconds after it parked in the thick, dew-filled meadow. I looked over to him. “This is the one I was on about!”… Read more

  • Hot Blues on a Cold Night

    Hot Blues on a Cold Night

    Kyla Brox Band – Saturday 2nd March @ Long Street Blues Club, Devizes Andy Fawthrop   Back up the road to the Con Club for Long Street Blues Club’s latest presentation – The Kyla Brox Band. And it was definitely worth the hike. Yet again Ian Hopkins had managed to get one of Britain’s top… Read more

  • Snakes in a Museum

    Yes, it’s a cross between Night at the Museum and Snakes on a Plane, except neither Samuel L Jackson or Ben Stiller will be there, neither any real snakes, which may be no bad thing. This is Devizes, home to the wonderful Wiltshire Museum, where two snakes have slithered up the outside of the Museum… Read more

  • The Yirdbards @ The Cellar Bar, Swan Hotel, Bradford; Original Multi-media Entertainment – In A Folk Club?

    by Andy Fawthrop   What else are you going to do on a Tuesday night if you’re after some top-notch musical entertainment? There was nothing happening (musically) in Devizes that night, so a venture out into the wild and woolly West into the splendid old town of Bradford on Avon was called for. The venue… Read more

  • Wiltshire Council Welcome Proposed Road Signs

    Wiltshire Council Welcome Proposed Road Signs

    Since a Wiltshire Council highway engineer advised Devizes Town Council that a sign at the High Street junction with Long Street is not big enough or in the right position last week, the highway engineer has been around our area suggesting other improvements which must be enforced for safety purposes.   Devizes Town Councillors were… Read more

  • The Future of Parking in the Market Place Fumes Debate….

    And who better to query on the issue than Mr Iain Wallis, I ask you? Take a deep breath…   As I sit in my car doing up the windows this extraordinarily fine February afternoon, I look around at our notable Market Place where I’ve parked. It’s a beautiful centre of town, it could look… Read more