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A GROUP that connects lonely and isolated elderly people through art has been awarded a coronavirus fund to help get its members online. Arts Together, which runs 30 sessions a year in Devizes, Marlborough, Pewsey, Trowbridge, Bradford on Avon and Melksham for more than 70 members, has been awarded £12,400 from Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund. The fund has already raised more than £1.2 million and distributed more than £1 million through 220 grants to groups across the county. Arts Together will use the grant to buy laptops to loan to its members, most of whom are in their eighties and nineties. Many of them live alone. The planned rollout and associated one-to-one training has had to be suspended though, because of the latest lockdown. ....