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Sunday, 20 January 2019

Drivel From Devizes - Dateline Sunday 20th January 2019

Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 20th January 2019

Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:

1.      D-Town was still coming to terms this week with its grief when the sad news was announced that the skate-boarder Hugh Jarse announced his impending retirement from international competition.  Commenting exclusively to this organ before undertaking daily practice, he said “yeh, but, no, but yeh, been like a hangin’ toenail, man.  Hurts to even put da socks on, innit, catchin’ an’ clickin’ on da material, innit.  Da pain barrier, man.  Can’t go on.  Sorry to da dudes in da ‘hood.”  A translation into English will be made available later.

2.     Meanwhile, the town’s 107-year old mayor, Ben Dover, was involved in a Road Traffic Accident on Thursday.  Pulling out from a side-street on his motability scooter, he forced several cars to swerve, and two to crash into each other.  He then mowed down two pedestrians on a zebra crossing, crossed the central reservation on the A350 into the path of oncoming traffic, went the wrong way down a one-way street, knocked over a cyclist, ran over a cat, and took out the safety bollards in the High Street, before crashing into the plate-glass window at the front of Poundland.  Several people were killed or injured, and three people were traumatised, requiring psychological help and counselling.  He was found to be driving without a valid MoT certificate, was not wearing a seat-belt, had no current driving licence, had no insurance, and was under the affluence of incohol.  Police later said that they had offered the mayor “suitable words of advice”.

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