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We are proud to remember Dick
Posted on 3:42pm Wednesday 12th March 2008
MANY tributes have been forthcoming this week for Wiltshire police firearms officer Dick Fuller.
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Why no maths teacher?
Posted on 11:22am Friday 11th January 2008
Like most parents I was interested to see the GCSE league tables that came out this week. Papers get a sneak preview of the league tables a few days before they can be published and I was a bit shocked to see Devizes School (where my 15-year-old daughter is a pupil) could only manage 38 per cent of its pupils passing five or more gcses at grade C or above when subjects included maths and English.
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Keep it simple
Posted on 11:35am Friday 7th December 2007
Last weekend I spent a few days in Greece and it was great sitting in the sunshine in a beach side taverna but it really made me appreciate the festive look Devizes has taken on when I returned.
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Time to take stock
Posted on 4:32pm Friday 14th September 2007
Devizes is more or less back to normal now after the terrible death of Matthew Baggott but of course for his close friends and family life will never be the same again.
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Glad to be back
Posted on 4:37pm Sunday 19th August 2007
After a couple of weeks away in Greece it is nice to be back in Devizes and reassuring that so little has changed.
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Blog power brings back Bovril?
Posted on 1:18pm Thursday 24th May 2007
First of all I have to apologise for not posting any new entries for a number of weeks. Although I doubt many people have noticed!
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Streets of London
Posted on 2:02pm Thursday 15th March 2007
I went shopping in London on Saturday and what a mistake that was. Even my clothes mad teenage daughter who adores shops was very glad to get back to the tranquility of Wiltshire.
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Terrible loss of a young life
Posted on 4:37pm Thursday 1st March 2007
The death of 11-year-old Sam Odell, who died after being hit by a van outside Sheldon School, in Chippenham is the sort of terrible tragedy that helps to put life into perspective.
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We give a toss
Posted on 2:27pm Tuesday 20th February 2007
For a few days now plenty of people have been calling the administration at North Wiltshire District Council all the names under the sun for their abysmal handling of the leisure centre crisis.
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Farewell to Chris one of a kind
Posted on 3:22pm Wednesday 14th February 2007
I went to the funeral today of Chris Carver, a stalwart of many Devizes organisations and one of those people who once met never forgotten.
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Why has Bovril been axed?
Posted on 4:06pm Saturday 27th January 2007
I went to Sainsbury in Devizes today to do our usual weekly shop and after a few tours up and down the aisles I gave up looking for the Bovril and asked a helpful lady on the deli counter if she had any idea where it was kept.
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The hand of God
Posted on 2:59pm Friday 19th January 2007
I was sitting in the hairdressers yesterday - yes us journalists are always on call - when I got a message to say the stained glass window at St Andrew's Church in Long Street, Devizes, had crashed down during the high winds.
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