News in Honiton

"She came from Planet Claire, I knew she came from there," goes the B52's hit that gave the award-winning card and gift shop in Honiton's Black Lion Court its name.

Planet Sal is a world of quirky, fascinating, humorous products – things that have a practical use, but make you smile when you look at them. It's the kind of place you go to buy someone a present, and end up treating yourself to something you just can't resist buying.

Every week Honiton Nub News highlights an Event of the Week – something happening in the next few days that you might like to do.

There are also event listings in the What's On section of the site – and anyone can add their own events, free of charge.

A man wanted in connection into a police investigation into a reported assault may be in the East Devon area.

Jack Hodgson, 21, sometimes lives in Newton Abbot and the surrounding area, but also has links to Tiverton and East Devon.

'Severe pressure' on the area's main RD&E hospital and other NHS services across Devon has led to a plea not to come to the emergency department unless the situation is genuinely urgent.

The RD&E Hospital Trust is currently at its highest alert level – OPEL 4 – due to:

Honiton's Thelma Hulbert Gallery has been highly commended in this year's Museum and Heritage Awards, for its Creative Cabin project.

The project has been recognised in the Pandemic Pivot Award for organisations with fewer than 20 full-time employees.

Devon's director of public health has urged residents to continue taking precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus – despite the easing of most legal restrictions on July 19.

The Prime Minister announced yesterday (July 5) that the Government is moving from state-imposed curbs on social gatherings to a 'personal responsibility' approach.

Unpaid carers from Honiton are sharing their experiences with the NHS as part of an initiative to reduce the enormous difficulties suffered by people in their position.

People looking after a loved one in the last years of their life have opened up about the stress and worry they suffer. They highlighted the lack of support and advice available, the financial pressures, and the complicated systems and red tape involved in getting the necessary medical treatments and equipment for the person they care for.

Printed timetables for Devon's bus services have been produced for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.

The booklets cover all the county's districts and all its bus service operators.

Recycle Devon is encouraging Devon residents to 'Green Your Clean' this summer, by sharing greener ways to clean our homes to reduce the amount of waste produced by shop-bought cleaning supplies.

The Green Your Clean campaign launches today (Monday) and will run throughout the month, which is also recognised internationally as Plastic Free July.

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