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  • Sam Lee, Salisbury Arts Centre, Friday, May 1, 8pm.

    Where: Salisbury Arts CentreWhen: Friday, May 1, 8pmTickets: £14 / £12 conc, salisburyartscentre.co.uk (01722) 321744 Where: Pound Arts, CorshamWhen: Saturday, May 2, 7.30pmTickets: £12 / £11, poundarts.org.uk (01249) 701628 THE voice of the moment, Sam

  • Public invited to mental health trust board meeting

    AVON and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust are inviting the public to join directors at their April board meeting next week. Iain Tulley, chief executive of AWP, will give a brief overview of the past year before unveiling their objectives

  • Music takes to the streets in Devizes

    A taster workshop for people who want to be part of a new street band for Devizes is to be held on May 16. Organisers of Devizes Carnival are now taking part in a pilot project called Noises On The Street and want to hear from band leaders and

  • Castle Combe track day raises more than £5,000

    A TRACK day at Castle Combe Circuit last Thursday raised £5,250 for the Royal United Hospital’s Forever Friends appeal. Maria Fisher, the circuit’s sales coordinator, was shocked to discover in 2013 she had a cancerous tumour on her lung. Mrs

  • Two years cut from Chippenham paedophile's jail sentence

    A PAEDOPHILE, who said he only turned to child sex offending after he was run over by a car, today had his sentence slashed by appeal court judges. Christopher John Court, 34, who preyed on a young girl, was caught with hundreds of images of sick

  • General Election 2015 candidates: Claire Perry (Conservative)

    With campaigning for the General Election under way in the Devizes constituency we meet the Conservative candidate. Claire Perry is taking no vote for granted as she makes her way around the Devizes constituency in her battle bus – a VW camper

  • Youngsters have gym-tastic time in Devizes

    SCORES of youngsters from primary schools had a gym-tastic time when they took part in a festival at Devizes School.The youngsters first watched a display of gymnastics by pupils from Devizes School and then took part in work shops led by teachers and

  • Concert reaches high note for Mayor's charities

    DEVIZES Town Band took an audience on a tour of 100 years of cinematic history when they performed a concert to raise money for the charities supported by Mayor Sarah Bridewell. More than 160 people were in the Corn Exchange to watch the band under

  • The Sound of Music, WOBLOS

    Review: WBLOS The Sound of Music Memorial Hall, Royal Wootton BassettA memorable spring tonic was enjoyed by large audiences last week, in Wootton Bassett Light Operatic Society's superb production of The Sound

  • Opposed to homes

    YOU may be aware that Marlborough College is in the advanced stages of discussing a deal with Wiltshire Council that will involve the development of 100 houses and a new Preshute School on land designated as an AONB. The land borders on two adjourning

  • Respect for medics

    THE Great Western Hospital in Swindon is struggling to meet its target for dealing with Accident and Emergency patients within four hours. The target is 95 per cent but the GWH only succeeded in seeing 70 per cent of A&E patients within four

  • A&E care is in crisis

    YOUR article (April 9) comments on the fact that, in the week ending March 30, only 70.3 per cent of patients attending the A&E Department at GWH in Swindon were “seen within four hours”. But the actual target is that 98 per cent of all patients

  • Claim extra cash

    CONTACT a Family is a national charity that supports UK families with disabled children whatever their disability. It is worried that local families could be missing out on a potential £21.55 to £138.05 extra each week because they wrongly think they

  • Have a say at polls

    THE General Election on May 7 is a key opportunity for disabled people to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The next government will be making decisions about everything from whether we get more disabled-friendly homes built to essential

  • No wonder town is one of best

    A COUPLE of weeks ago I paid my customary visit to the bank. Whilst waiting to be served I overhead a conversation between the cashier and the lady in front of me about lemon drizzle cake. The cake was obviously a homemade speciality of the lady

  • No wonder town is one of best

    A COUPLE of weeks ago I paid my customary visit to the bank. Whilst waiting to be served I overhead a conversation between the cashier and the lady in front of me about lemon drizzle cake. The cake was obviously a homemade speciality of the lady

  • Sheer NHS abuse

    RAW and bald figures without supporting evidence are bound to lead to the meaningless research and consequent statistical analysis ('GWH misses four hour A&E target', Gazette, April 9). I had occasion to visit GWH A&E on Monday, March 16

  • Support our concert

    WE are holding our annual springtime concert at the Town Hall, Devizes, at 7.30pm on Wednesday, May 6, when we will again be raising money for the Mayor’s Appeal. We would ask as many people as possible to come along to this popular concert, as

  • Support our concert

    WE are holding our annual springtime concert at the Town Hall, Devizes, at 7.30pm on Wednesday, May 6, when we will again be raising money for the Mayor’s Appeal. We would ask as many people as possible to come along to this popular concert, as

  • 'This will be our biggest day'

    MELKSHAM Town manager Darren Perrin aims to savour his team’s day of destiny when they bid to become Toolstation League Premier Division champions on Saturday.The league’s top two sides meet in Devon this weekend as table-toppers Melksham, unbeaten in

  • Great wicket keeper

    YOUR article regarding the signing of Michael Bates as Wiltshire wicket keeper for the 2015 season seriously underplayed the importance of this acquisition. Michael Bates is probably the best wicket keeper in the county. His inability to hold down

  • Blooms are uplifting

    I WANT to thank the town council for the investment in spring flowers this year. I live near the Western Arches and every time I pass the flowers all around the area, including the green space opposite the Social Security office, I feel uplifted.

  • Thanks to driver

    I WOULD like to thank the driver of the HST diesel train who in Pewsey on Wednesday, April 1, as he approached the station, saw a steam train approaching from the other direction and lots of kids (many aged 30 years plus) on the platform waiting to

  • New play The Stolen Inches performance in Alton Barnes

    A REHEARSED reading of a new play by Cordelia O’Neill, The Stolen Inches, is being performed in Alton Barnes next month before the play heads up to the Edinburgh Festival in August.The Stolen Inches is a piece of about the Wenlock family with a particular

  • Use money wisely

    WHEN I saw the picture of the lady in the Gazette (April 2) holding a placard saying, “why do we have food banks in a rich country?” I thought of another question I would like to ask her, and this is “how does she think that my parents always had good

  • Greatwood horse charity unveils new classroom

    GREATWOOD horse charity officially unveiled a new classroom facility on Tuesday with the help of funders Al Basti Equiworld.The charity based at Rainscombe Hill Farm in Clench Common, Marlborough has been combining education programmes with the rescue

  • Devizes boy launches dog poo campaign

    DEVIZES schoolboy Ryan Eacott has launched a dog poo campaign in the town to raise awareness of the problems that it causes.The 11-year-old is a year six pupil at St Joseph’s School has designed and made a poster encouraging people to pick up dog mess.The