Business Daily

One of the region’s premier commercial financial brokers has expanded its operation into Plymouth Science Park and is set to recruit new brokers to join its existing teams based in Plymouth, Bristol and Kingsbridge.

Start Point Finance finds the best deals for clients by working with 90 different banks representing all aspects of the industry, from the High Street, to foreign providers and UK challenger banks.

Since it started trading in 2007, the team has helped hundreds of clients with numerous transactions, the largest of which being £1.7 million, which was for police...

Award-winning south west estate agents and chartered surveyors Whitton & Laing have generously donated £1,884 to Exeter-based ‘Balloons’, a charity who help support bereaved children and their families.

The sum represented the year the independent estate agency was established and their way of giving back to the local community as part of the firm’s 135th anniversary celebrations.

Balloons, an independently run charity, provides bespoke 1:1 pre and post-bereavement support to children and young people (C&YP) aged 5-25 living in Exeter, Mid and East Devon. It also...

Barnstaple’s Really Big Quiz, which marked its 10th anniversary on 13 November, is celebrating a major milestone having raised over £30,000 for the Mayor of Barnstaple’s charities of choice since its launch in 2010.

This year’s event, which was once again organised and hosted by Exeter and Barnstaple-based accountancy firm Simpkins Edwards, raised over £2,900, tipping the total collected over the years to £30,316.96. Combined with Simpkins Edwards’ Exeter edition of the Really Big Quiz, which has been running since 2003, the firm has helped raise over £114,000 for local charities...

Flybe is operating up to 16 flights a week to Amsterdam from Exeter Airport this winter.

This includes the newly added weekday opportunity to fly to the Dutch capital one-way on the early morning London City flight that then continues to Amsterdam Schiphol without through-passengers having to leave the aircraft. This gives business travellers in particular the opportunity to make convenient day returns.

In addition, is the return for winter of eight extra weekday flights and evening services on three days a week (Mon/Thurs/Fri). These provide a significant boost to Flybe’s...