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Pie Night by Zoom!
Don’t forget to join Pie Night by Zoom tonight. 6pm. Here’s the link. If you haven’t already, download the Zoom app. No charge! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/160207971
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Message from The Health Centre
This lovely image is from Sandy Nightingale Please be aware of the following scam: do not give out your personal details. PHE will always write to you if they have been unable to contact you if they needed to! ‘Calls from somebody claiming to be from Public Health England, asking residents if they had received their letter from the government and then asking if they have support from family and friends, etc. and trying to obtain personal details’
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Changes to Service from Moorgate Vets
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Join the Library At Home!
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Devon County Council Updates
Produced every day these are lengthy screeds, mainly repeating what they have told us already, but you may want to check in every so often. Type in Devon County Council and follow the links. Here are today’s main points: Devon needs you: get a job in health and social care Devon County Council are encouraging job seekers, students back from university, college leavers and former care and health staff to help support the county’s most vulnerable. The coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) means there’s an even greater demand for Healthcare Assistants in residential homes, people’s own homes and hospitals in Devon so temporary and permanent workers are needed to fill a variety…
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Moorgate vets
Our wonderful Moorgate vets are still doing their farm work and emergency small animal work. you may find this useful: Their phone numbers are 01626 833023 and 01647 440441
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Devon Air Ambulance Grounded
Devon Air Ambulance will temporarily be responding to patients solely by critical care car, but its critical care paramedics will still be able to respond to patients with their specialist skills and equipment. Heléna Holt, CEO, explains: Standing down our aircraft has been a very difficult decision for us to make but one we have had to take in order to protect all of our crew. She added: “Whilst the paramedics can wear personal protective equipment (PPE) when treating and conveying patients, our pilots cannot operate the aircraft wearing PPE. They also cannot maintain a 2-metre distance between them and the patient. As we have no way of knowing…
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Food Banks
The food bank deposit box is now located in the church porch. The food bank are aware and items will be collected from there so please do leave whatever you can spare or donate money online. This is the current advice being issued by the Exeter Diocese How can we best help at the moment? Whilst money is always welcome, donations of food and other requested items are particularly wanted, where possible. This is for two reasons: 1) Many supermarkets are limiting how much food people can buy – including even volunteers buying for food banks. 2) As more of us are self-isolating and buying food online, donations in supermarket…
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Meet-ups On-line
Tracy Small has initiated a new version of our Pub in Exile meetings at 6pm every Tuesday. The first one was last night using Zoom, a natty little program, free to use, which you can download onto your desktop. You may want to download it and try it out with a friend or relative so that you can take part next week. PIE (Pub in Exile) – Tuesdays, 6pm click this link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/160207971Please note, the meeting will shut down after 40 minutes. You simply click on the link address above and can join the group. I’ll remind folks a bit nearer the time, so that you have time to do your hair…
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Transport for Key Workers
Over the last week, bus companies have lost up to 90% of their passengers, leading many to drastically reduce services. Stagecoach today are implementing reductions across their network, details of which appear on their web site.https://www.stagecoachbus.com/coronavirus We do not have sufficient information to know the make-up of the 10% (and falling) remaining passengers. Some will be key workers needing to travel. There may be other essential purposes, whilst some may be travelling against official advice. Some may be best assisted by referral to the many community initiatives, information on which is available locally or on-line through web sites, Facebook etc. In an effort to cater for key workers, the County Council is…