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Review: Jan Ravens, Pound Arts Centre, Corsham
Best known for her impressions of numerous female politicians and celebrities, television and radio star Jan Ravens delighted a packed audience at Corsham’s Pound Arts Centre with her debut solo show, A Funny Look at Impressions. Ravens, star of Dead
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Preview: Shakespeare live
Shakespeare Live celebrate its 20th anniversary with a production of The Merchant of Venice at Hazelbury Manor, near Box. The production runs from Monday July 6 to Saturday July 11. Mixing high drama – perhaps even tragedy – with a romantic love story
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Review: Mervyn Stutter, Easterton village hall
Althouugh Devizes Festival is in full swing, it does not have the monopoly on high-quality professional entertainment in the area. Easterton Village Hall, which has recently signed up to Rural Arts Wiltshire, welcomed entertainer Mervyn Stutter
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Review: Quadrophenia, Theatre Royal, Bath
Don't go expecting a stage version of the film, or a tribute-type show featuring a string of hits along the lines of We Will Rock You or Mamma Mia. Quadrophenia is far more opera than rock, a musical experience which offers troubled musings
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Calne scouts in mountain return
Fifty years after a camping trip in the mountains of Norway a group of former Calne scouts returned to meet up with friends they made during their youth. Ten rover and senior scouts spent two weeks camping in Norway in 1959, and 50 years on five of the
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Farewell to Devizes free spirit Jonny
Tears were shed at West Wiltshire Crematorium today at the funeral of Devizes teenager Jonny Stock. The crematorium chapel was full for the service, led by the Rev Chris Tebbutt, vicar of St James in Devizes. Jonny, 16, of Kingsley Road
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Doherty given bail on drink drive charge
Rocker Pete Doherty led police on a late-night car chase when he drunkenly fled from cops after a gig, a court heard today. The former Babyshambles frontman, who lives in a rented house at Dursley in Savernake Forest near Marlborough, was ordered
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Devizes murder trial: Accused fled police on stolen mountain bike
Winchester Crown Court heard today that Karl Quincey tried to evade police capture while on a ladies’ mountain bike which he had stolen following the stabbing of Barry Cooper in a block of flats at the bottom of Victoria Road, Devizes. On
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Wiltshire Air Ambulance to get its own lottery
The Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal has set up its own lottery to help raise the £500,000 it needs to keep the lifesaving helicopter aloft. The lottery is being launched this week and aims to attract 20,000 members within the next two to three years
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Devizes church seeks cash for Crammer wall
St James’ Church hopes to repair the partially collapsed wall by The Crammer in Devizes this year but it depends on money being raised. The work is expected to cost between £60,000 and £100,000 and churchwarden Noel Woolrych said the church
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Malmesbury's penitent pranksters hand back blooms
Shop owner Ceri Pulvirenti has shamed pranksters into returning a pot of geraniums they took from outside her store. She was blooming furious after her hanging geraniums went missing from the front of the DIY and hardware store Kit Box in Gloucester
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Devizes mum finds support in fight to help son
Mum Fi Hyslop is battling to have education authorities take seriously the problems she is having with her son. While she is trying to have nine-year-old Seth, who has Downs Syndrome, placed at Larkrise School in Trowbridge, education mandarins
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Row over meeting in secret at Marlborough
A meeting of the Marlborough Town Council staffing committee had to be abandoned as members attemped to discuss the controversy over their town clerk Pam Dobson. Mrs Dobson, who has been absent through stress for five months, had offered to resign from