Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday
29th October 2017
Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:
1. The
civic crisis in D-Town deepened this week, when Potterne formally declared
itself a separate parish entity. This push
for independence and self-determination was met in The Vize with complete
disbelief, and the threat of immediate retaliatory action. The coming week is expected to be very tense,
with the very real possibility that units of the feared Market Place
storm-troopers will be sent in to restore order and to impose a local
curfew. Round-ups and punishment
beatings may become commonplace. Civil
war may ensue. Or the mayor may decide
to just send a very strongly-worded note.
2. And
after more than fifty years, civic papers have finally been released which may
throw some light on to the events surrounding the vandalism of the flower
baskets in Sidmouth Street in 1963.
However, even at the last moment the Civic Information Agency (CIA)
insisted on the redaction of certain key passages of the documents. We still, therefore, cannot be sure whether “umbrella
man” was one of the conspirators or, more likely, was just a man carrying an
umbrella. The vantage point from the
bookshop’s first floor remains as poignant today as it ever was, but the grassy
knoll has now been covered in a children’s playground. This can only mean that the conspiracy theories
will continue, and D-Town will forever carry a black mark in Wiltshire’s
heart. The present flower-baskets look lovely
though.
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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