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It’s the perfect combination – biking and breakfast all under one roof. Exeter Business Club decided to add pedaling to the menu during their weekly breakfast meeting.

Three static bikes took centre stage where members cycled away in shifts, in between enjoying a full English breakfast, and clocking up the equivalent of a 40 mile trip in 90 minutes.

This wasn’t just to counteract the effect of a good fry up – but to help raise money and awareness of Exeter based charity CEDA who provide learning and social opportunities for adult and children with disabilities.

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A mortgage broker from Ottery St Mary was over the moon when he was given the opportunity to play at Manchester United’s hallowed ground.

David Grimshaw, MD of EXE Mortgages in Ottery St Mary, was one of just 48 applicants selected by Virgin Money to take part in the ‘Play on the Pitch’ event at Old Trafford.

The only player from Devon, he was chosen after submitting an entry outlining his work as a volunteer coach for Feniton U15 youth football team. In it, David explained how coaching helps him to forget the day to day pressures of running his mortgage business and...

Wates Living Space, the UKs leading social housing maintenance provider, is expanding its presence in the Exeter area and is inviting local construction suppliers and subcontractors to a networking event in June.



The ‘Meet the Buyer’ event, hosted by Wates in partnership with Constructionline, will give small and medium sized sub-contractors the chance to meet the team and to tender for new housing repairs contracts.

The event will be held at the Travis Perkins Exeter Branch, Heron Road, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter, EX2 7LL on Wednesday 27th June from 9am until 1....

Discarded old bikes are being turned back into fit to ride machines thanks to an initiative in Exeter. Exeter City Council has teamed up with Exeter-based charity Ride On Cycling For All to get more and more people cycling more often. Old and unloved bikes found dumped around the city or picked up as part of the Council’s Bulky Waste collections are sent to Ride On, who refurbish them to a high standard and put them up for sale at very affordable prices to achieve their charitable aim of getting more people riding more affordable bikes more often. Cllr David Harvey, Lead Councillor for...