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Devizes News

• Village schools to join together

  POTTERNE and Worton and Marston primary schools near Devizes are likely to start the new academic year in September as a single school. read more

• Light up the zebra

  I WAS so pleased to see George Lane had been resurfaced and thought that at last the zebra crossing would become much brighter but more importantly safer to use. read more

• Give Sedgefield rate

  I WAS interested to read your report last week on the PCT consultation meeting at the Neeld Hall in Chippenham, which was addressed by MP James Gray. read more

• How do you choose?

  HAVING examined the Pathways for Change booklet, I find it very difficult to choose any of the options given by the Health Trust, as I am only familiar with Savernake Hospital and the district it serves. read more

• Boy’s faulty bike fiasco

  LORRY driver Gary Abrey is furious a new bicycle that should be bringing pleasure to his autistic son is sitting in his shed. read more

• Workshop set to close

  TWO jobs could be lost when Sean Donlon retires from Lydeway Garage near Devizes at the end of the month. read more

• Pub rocks for charity

  SIX live bands will be performing at a charity fun day in Market Lavington on June 4. read more

• Manager’s pledge to boost town

  DEVIZES' new town centre manager is the perfect person to spearhead the town's scheme to introduce CCTV security cameras. read more

• Goth girl is beaten up

  TEENAGER Flora Camacho needed hospital treatment after becoming a victim of a split between groups known as goths and townies at Devizes School. read more

• Student’s close shave

  TEENAGER Christine Chapman is shaving her head to raise money for Cancer Research in memory of her gran who died of the disease three years ago. read more

• Cash help for liver girl

  FUNDRAISING is getting underway to help the family of toddler Kiya Turton who needs a liver transplant. read more

• Anxious owner in plea for cat’s return

  HEARTBROKEN Tania Genever is offering a reward for information about her rare Bengal cat which she fears was stolen. read more

• Backing for North Gate plan

  THE latest phase of the redevelopment of the North Gate site in Devizes took a leap forward last week when Kennet councillors approved a scheme for a block of 24 flats on the site of the former Devizes Motor Company. read more

• New chief focuses on community beat

  DEVIZES' new police inspector Caroline Evely wants everyone in the town to know their community officers. read more

• Funeral in woodland

  FRIENDS and family of crop circle maker Paul Obee, 33, whose body was found in a car earlier this month, described his woodland funeral on Friday as uplifting. read more

• ‘Tell us you’re safe’

  THE distraught family of Devizes schoolgirl Zeanne Maughan-Smith, 14, have hardly slept since she went missing from the town centre on Saturday morning. read more

• Walking in memory

  FRIENDS and family of two former Devizes School pupils who died at an early age took part in a sponsored walk on Saturday. read more

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