Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday
30th July 2017
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Devizes:
1. This
week in D-Town marks the start of a series of commemorative events to mark 100
years since the Tragedy of Maryport Street.
Hundreds of men died by drowning in the mud when contractors failed to
repair the pavements properly. Even
today fragments of trainers and shell-suits, lost whilst shopping, are still
emerging from the mud. A number of
modern-day potholes will be decorated with flowers in memory of the earlier road-work-holes,
and both Gas and Electricity Boards will send teams of men to dig new utility
trenches as a mark of respect.
2. Negotiations
have continued between D-Town’s representatives and the Wiltshire Economic
Union (WEU) over Dexit. Both sides
admitted that progress has been slow, with neither party having the faintest
idea what is going on, and what Dexit will actually look like. Citizens of D-Town continue to worry over
what format the borders with the rest of Wiltshire will look like, and what
colour the covers on the passports will be.
A competition will be launched in local Primary Schools next term to
design a new cover, using only crayons.
3.
For
details of these and all other Devizes stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station D-Town F-Off.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2017
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