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Devizes News

• World class acts for huge street festival

  WACKY characters are set to entertain visitors to Devizes on Monday for the Devizes Carnival Street Festival. read more

• Grey skies could not dull picnic fun

  CHILLY weather and overcast skies resulted in a lower turnout of people at Devizes Carnival's Picnic in the Park on Sunday. read more

• It’s driving me batty

  CHECKING for slow worms, it seems, wasn't enough to appease Kennet District Council planning chiefs. read more

• It may sound offal, but this is historic pie

  AN ancient recipe for Devizes Pie is to be modernised and reproduced as part of this year's food and drink festival. read more

• Just a tad too spicy?

  DEVIZES looks set for the battle of the poppadoms as plans have been submitted for a fifth Indian restaurant. read more

• £20,000 raised by ride

  NEARLY 400 riders set off from the Lye recreation field in Seend on Sunday on the British Heart Foundation's annual Hearts First bike ride. read more

• Beer race fun for MS dad’s appeal

  PLENTY of fun is promised during the next event raising cash for a Bromham man with multiple sclerosis. read more

• Millionaire cheat is facing assault charge

  CHARLES Ingram, the former major convicted on fraud charges in connection with the TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, is facing an assault charge. read more

• Finding his body is like closing a book

  NEWS that the body of Mick Seavers - one of three climbing friends who died in an accident in the Alps 17 years ago - has been found, has brought closure to those who mourned him. read more

• Red tribute to Donna

  A TULIP fund set up in the name of Devizes barmaid Donna Adams has already collected £1,000 for Dorothy House in her memory. read more

• Historian’s people hunt

  LOCAL historian Matthew McMurray has appealed for information about who lived at Number Eight Long Street, Devizes, before 1972. read more

• Take back the town, says actor

  ONE of the young actors mugged outside the Wharf Theatre last week while waiting for their lifts has appealed to townsfolk not to be intimidated by yobs. read more

• Drug-user sentenced

  ENGINEER Andrew Peirson has been ordered to do unpaid work in the community for possession of drugs. read more

• House is attacked three times

  DEVIZES police have appealed for witnesses after a house was attacked three times on Tuesday night. read more

• Watchdog at business park

  DEVIZES police will meet business people at Hopton Industrial Estate tomorrow (Friday) to discuss setting up a Business Watch scheme to counter vandalism and burglary which has plagued the area. read more

• Titanic rescue effort

  HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds worth of memorabilia associated with the doomed ocean liner Titanic was saved after a disastrous flood at a Devizes auction room. read more

• Suicide dad unable to pay child support

  DEVIZES sales manager Michael Parson who rolled himself over the edge of a cliff on July 30 was struggling to pay child support, an inquest heard on Tuesday. read more

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