From folk to jazz music at Devizes festival

Zoe Rahman, the 2012 MOBO jazz award winner, performs on June 17

3:00pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Devizes Festival is nothing if not eclectic and there is music on the programme for every taste.

A welcome return to Devizes Festival for coveted pianist

Pianist Alexandra Dariescu will perform at the festival

2:30pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Alexandra Dariescu is the latest up-and-coming classical musician to cut their teeth at Devizes Festival.

Devizes man charged with making fake bomb threat

2:03pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Nicolas Christian Luffman, 46, of Mayenne Place, Devizes, has been charged with making a false bomb threat. He has been released on bail and is due to appear at Salisbury Magistrates Court on June 11.

Timeline of drama at Mayenne Place, Devizes

10:25am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Police treated the bomb threat at Mayenne Place as a major incident after a man they arrested said there might be explosives at his flat.

Families allowed to return to homes in Mayenne Place, Devizes

Families wait for word in Mayenne Place yesterday evening

8:19am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Families evacuated from flats in Mayenne Place, Devizes, yesterday following fears of possible explosives in a neighbouring property were told they could return at around 11.30pm last night.

Residents evacuated as Devizes bomb scare continues

9:18pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

RESIDENTS of Mayenne Place, Devizes, are this evening staying with friends or in a Wiltshire Council shelter after police launched a major operation to counter a credible bomb threat.

Families evacuated to former council HQ during Devizes bomb scare

Residents are kept behind the cordon in Mayenne Place

5:23pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Emergency services were called to an address in Mayenne Place, Devizes, at 1pm today after a man arrested earlier in the day indicated there was an explosive device there.

Bomb scare in Devizes

Residents are kept behind the cordon in Mayenne Place

4:08pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Mayenne Place, in Devizes, has been cordonned off by police because of a bomb scare. Firefighters and police at scene

Man airlifted after suffering cardiac arrest on Devizes canal bank

Paramedic Richard Miller

11:45am Tuesday 21st May 2013

A 63-year-old man was airlifted to hospital after suffering a heart attack on the banks of the Kennet and Avon Canal in Devizes on Saturday evening.

Warm weather brings out crowds for Rowdeford Garden Fair

Sisters Lou Holgate and Sonia Wright from Sonia Wright Plants, near Marlborough, tend the blooms on offer at their stall

8:36am Tuesday 21st May 2013

Families and gardening enthusiasts flocked to the eighth Rowdeford Garden Fair on Sunday.

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I refer to the article on Chippenham RFC seeking permission from the Rugby Football Union to allow their second team to be promoted to Southern Counties (level seven of the RFU league structure) should they finish top of Dorset & Wilts 1 North (level eight), (Gazette & Herald, February 28). The most interesting aspect of the article was actually what was not said by the club’s representative or was not mentioned.  − Colin Brockhurst, Corsham

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A newsletter hit my doormat on March 2 from ‘Nick Watts and the Lib Dem team’ headlined: Freeze Wilts council tax say Lib Dems. This document goes on to tell us that: “hard-working families cannot afford unnecessary council tax hikes in these difficult times” and so “Nick Watts and the Liberal Democrats have promised not to support any attempt by Wiltshire Conservatives to hit families by increasing council tax this year”.  − Peter Kemp, Chippenham

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