Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday
27th August 2017
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Devizes:
1. A
civic row broke out this week after the mayor announced that the planned new
garden bridge across the canal, just behind the brewery out-fall, is to be
abandoned. Almost £7 had been spent by
school-children on paper and crayons in various abortive attempts to design the
structure, and all of this will now be lost to the tax-payer. The key reason for the scheme being aborted
was the lack of public support, based on the fact that the bridge was not
needed since there are already twenty-seven crossing points within the town.
2. Apart
from the annual D-Town International Street Festival and Carnival this week-end,
townsfolk will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the start of
the Shopping Forecast. Who can forget
such timeless cadences as “Tesco – declining, now leaving. Waitrose – distant, unlikely and in Melksham
thriving. Iceland – cheap, some bargains. Morrisons – clueless and confusing, closing
later. Sainsbury – rising, convenient, poor
pricing.”???
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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