Business Daily

RGB Building Supplies, and its sister company, The Room Works, are delighted to announce their sponsorship of an elite women’s cycling team as part of South West community project Cycle Engage UK.

Team RGB Building Supplies is made up of women from across the region, including Exeter cyclist Alice Staniford, and the sponsorship by the builders merchant provides a stable foundation for the amateur cyclists to take their sport to the next level.

The team will compete at elite level in national road racing competitions, including the National Women’s Road Series, The National...

Exeter’s 14th annual Really Big Quiz, held at the Corn Exchange in aid of Devon Freewheelers, has succeeded in raising over £7,600 for the Lord Mayor of Exeter’s charity of the year.

Organised by chartered accountancy firm Simpkins Edwards, the quiz saw a packed hall of 72 teams fight it out for the title of Exeter’s brainiest business.

Teams representing local businesses from across Exeter enjoyed a testing evening of questions delivered by Simpkins Edwards’ very own Jeremy Paxman and Bamber Gascoigne; partners John Coombs and Adrian Hemmings.

At the interval, the...

HRH The Queen is undoubtedly the most famous horse owner to compete at this year’s Devon County Show taking place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 18-20) at Westpoint, Exeter.

The Queen is entering a Highland pony and a Riding Horse in two classes within a packed equine programme which starts at 7am on Thursday morning.

The Show also has judging royalty including Mary Low MBE, a former international event rider, who will be judging on Thursday and former jockey Joe Tizzard.

Mary Lowe (then Mary Gordon-Watson) represented the winning British eventing team for...

While local high streets once teemed with big name brands, successful independent shops, and numerous customers looking for a bargain, the business and finance pages tell a different story about modern shopping habits; the high street as we know it is foundering, driven into the ground by trendy shopping malls, out-of-town precincts and the phenomenal rise of online shopping.

Although online shopping is easy and convenient, bricks and mortar stores are an integral part of a local high street’s success and the wider community usually suffers because of their decline. The lure of e-...