HATHERLEIGH Carnival committee has announced a Queen for the 2016 carnival on November 12 — Elizabeth Hutton of Rutleigh Farm, Hatherleigh.

Elizabeth will be 16 in July and is currently sitting sitting her GCSE exams at Okehampton College. She has always been a huge fan of the carnival and has taken part as a walking guy many times, but this will be her first time on a float.

The Carnival Queen always gets to nominate her chosen charity which, providing there is a profit, the carnival will make a donation to.

As Elizabeth was born eight weeks premature herself she would like to give something back to the Special Care Baby Unit at Barnstaple Hospital who did so much for her.