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  • Tonka Bean, Devizes Only Caribbean Cafe & Bar to Close

    Tonka Bean, Devizes Only Caribbean Cafe & Bar to Close

    ย Abrilli, sole Director and owner of Tonka Bean Cafe Bar in Devizes announced today, due to โ€œsignificant changes in personal and financial circumstances due to unfortunately slow and inconsistent trade over the past few months,โ€ the cafe is to closeโ€ฆ. Tonka Bean will cease trading and close its doors on Sunday 26th May 2024. Abrilli… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 15th-21st May 2024

    Hereโ€™s what weโ€™ve found to do in the wilds of Wiltshire this coming weekโ€ฆ Everything listed here is on our event calendar; go there for links and more info. It may be updated, so check in later in the week. Ongoing: A Wiltshire Thatcher: A Photographic Journey Through Victorian Wessex runs at Wiltshire Museum, Devizes,… Read more

  • Poppy Rose, Ready Nowโ€ฆ.

    Poppy Rose, Ready Nowโ€ฆ.

    Not being able to hold a note myself, I tip my hat to any musician in a band. Yet thereโ€™s something so much more valiant, rudimentary, and intrinsically honest about the solo singer-songwriter, the personal touch of an acoustic performer; as the title of her debut album suggests, Poppy Rose has thisโ€ฆ.. The key to… Read more

  • Help DOCA Win Funding for the Confetti Battle

    Help DOCA Win Funding for the Confetti Battle

    From carnival to the Winter Festival, DOCA stages so many great events in Devizes, most of them for free, but the most unique is the Confetti Battle. This year itโ€™s coupled again with the Colour Rush, on Saturday 14th September. TicketSource are offering ยฃ1,000 to help fund a winning community event, all you have to… Read more

  • White Horse Opera Mathieson Trust Fundraiser with Anup Biswas

    White Horse Opera members, Soprano Barbara Gompels, Mezzo Soprano Paula Boyagis, Tenor Carlos Alonso together with pianist Tony James join forces with international cellist Anup Biswasย for a special musical concert to raise money for the Mathieson Trust in Kolkata India which celebrates itsย  30thย Anniversary… The evening will take place on 15thย June at Market Lavington Community… Read more

  • โ€œThe Thrill of Loveโ€ at The Wharf Theatre, Devizes, May 13th-18th 2024

    โ€œThe Thrill of Loveโ€ at The Wharf Theatre, Devizes, May 13th-18th 2024

    By Ian DiddamsImages by Chris Watkins Ruth Ellis was hanged aged 28 years old, by Albert Pierrepoint the official executioner in the UK, at Holloway prison on July 13th 1955. Her trial had taken a little over just one day โ€“ the jury took only twenty-three minutes to find her guilty. She made no defence… Read more