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Devizes News

• Rooftop burglars raid antique shop

  THE owner of the antiques market in Devizes Market Place says she is to stop selling jewellery after a burglary at her premises last week. read more

• Diamond celebration

  CHIRTON couple Harold and Evelyn Miller have celebrated their diamond wedding. Mr and Mrs Miller moved to the village in 1955 to run Plummers Farm, a dairy farm. read more

• A note of dismay on new library

  GLORIA Chapman, the leader of Devizes Singers, has expressed disappointment at the closure of the music and drama studio in Devizes Library. read more

• Pub couple leave after six months

  PUB landlords Chris and Laura Chatwin are reluctantly leaving Bromham. read more

• Designer appeal at new clothing shops

  DESIGNER clothing shops are making their mark in Devizes. Last Thursday a new women's clothes shop, Woolf and Bean, opened in High Street. read more

• Freed from pain by the power of prayer

  YOUNG mum Emma Webb believes she has been freed from years of painful back problems following a miracle performed by healer Rev Melvin Banks. read more

• Can’t have it all, says GP

  RETIRING Devizes GP Brian Jones says residents ought to accept that a future health facility will not have inpatient beds. read more

• X-ray use could be extended at centre

  PCT director Alison Knowles would be keen to extend the use of the X-ray facilities at the new treatment centre to be built next year at Green Lane, Devizes. read more

• Onlookers watch police

  POLICE response to a reported burglary at Threshers wine merchants in Devizes Market Place on Monday night attracted onlookers. read more

• Remember your school friends

  FORMER pupils of Devizes School are being sought for two different reunions. The first reunion is for those who left the school's fifth year in 1983 or the sixth form in 1985. read more

• Neighbour in punch-up

  DEVIZES lorry driver John Kyle assaulted his neighbour after problems came to a head earlier this month, magistrates heard on Tuesday. read more

• Tree group objects to Tory logo

  THE political party formed in the wake of the destruction of five plane trees in Devizes Market Place is objecting to the new Tory logo. read more

• Good start to festival

  Mayor Don Jones announced the winners of the photography and art competition at the start of the second Devizes Food and Drink Festival on Monday. read more

• Cross destroyed

  Parish council chairman Peter Paget has hit out at vandals who destroyed Bromham's Millennium Cross some time on Saturday night. read more

• Lord of Rings letter bonus

  A LETTER written by Lord of the Rings author J R R Tolkien to two fans fetched £1,600 at Aldridge's auction sale in Devizes on Saturday. read more

• Sex attack on girl in play area

  VILLAGERS at Bromham near Devizes are reeling at the news that police are investigating the sexual assault of a young girl last Friday evening. read more

• Police coax down man a second time

  THE man who staged a rooftop vigil for two days in Semington was talked down from a similar situation in Devizes three years ago. read more

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