Freddies' oasis of coll

12:07pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

Entrepreneur Freddie Giles' autobiography Must I Grow Up will bring back many memories for people in Devizes who remember his hugely popular coffee bar, The Oasis.

	Escape from the Nazis
	2:39pm Thu 27 Sep 07
	STEPHAN Barbaruk has always had an unusual surname but it was his daughter who sparked his interest in tracing the family tree.
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	50 years on the mat
	2:16pm Thu 13 Sep 07
	The nationally recognised Devizes Budo Club, which has trained youngsters to the top flight of martial arts, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

	High Street fashions
	2:24pm Thu 6 Sep 07
	Photographs taken over the last century have provided a fascinating glimpse into the past of Malmesbury High Street.

	Life above the shop
	1:34pm Thu 30 Aug 07
	A chance find in a rubbish skip earlier this year has revealed the forgotten past of a café in Chippenham.

	Wackiest race in town
	3:19pm Thu 23 Aug 07
	Teams of eight people, paddling inflatable dinghies across lock pounds on the Kennet and Avon canal at Caen Hill in Devizes, then dragging them across the banks in between sounds like a crazy way of raising money for charity.

Drowning not Waving - August 23

1:48pm Thursday 23rd August 2007

If you were going to, say, send a shuttle into space, you wouldn't ask a chef to design the spacecraft or work out the trajectory, would you, so why when we are making our way east back across mid-Wales does my husband give me the job of navigating?

	Foraging for business
	2:38pm Mon 20 Aug 07
	When farming was thriving last century there was only one place farmers needed to turn to for their cattle feed - Bussell, Pike and Wheeler Ltd.

	Scouting’s big birthday
	1:21pm Thu 9 Aug 07
	No matter how old you are, if you ever served in the Scouts you will remember the promise.

	Workhorse reaches 40
	2:30pm Thu 2 Aug 07
	For 40 years the C130 Hercules, the workhorse of the Royal Air Force, has graced the skies of Wiltshire.