COMPANY Car Man is a light-hearted ET Business feature where we ask a company car driver in the area to answer a number of questions on topics of the moment. This week we feature the deputy chairman of Opportunity Peterborough and senior partner of strategic consultancy the Morton Partnership, Clive Morton, who rides a Claude Butler Hybrid bicycle. He is pictured alongside his wife's Toyota, which he occasionally borrows...
Q. You obviously don't drive a company car, so what made you swap the motor for a bike? How many miles do you cycle a week?A. A combination of reasons including exercise, consideration for the environment and convenience. I don't have any parking problems. I can go faster in Peterborough and London, where I also have a bike, than car, bus or tube. Apart from the odd repair and maintenance, it doesn't cost me anything. I travel between 70 and 100 miles a week.
Q. The Eco Innovation Centre is being launched in Peterborough to great fanfare this week? Is this the start of the transformation of Peterborough?A. It is absolutely great. The centre is a milestone in the regeneration of Peterborough. It is the first thing we can physically see taking place, and we have been waiting some years for this. It is great we can combine the expectations of the Eco Innovation Centre with the city's green cluster. I think this is just the start of whole lot of really exciting projects that will start to roll out.
Q. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is taking haute cuisine to the French with the opening of his latest restaurant in Paris. Does the foul-mouthed Chef Ramsay really have anything to offer hungry Parisians?A. Gordon Ramsay does uphold high standards. I'm sure Paris will have its culprits behind poor standards and while some may not like Gordon's methods he is on the side of quality and sometimes you have to be quite brutal to get decent quality.
Q.Sir Alan Sugar is back with his fourth series of The Apprentice but isn't it time the multi-millionaire entrepreneur was himself fired for this pointless show that merely allows celebrity wannabes to show off on prime time TV?A. I am not a fan of Sir Alan's methods. His methods are not the way to encourage or treat people. I suppose you have to say he is good for TV because he attracts a big audience, but his ways are not my experience of what happens or should happen in industry. I am not a supporter.
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