Peter Cleasby is Exeter Observer’s transport correspondent.
After reading French and German at New College, Oxford he entered the civil service where he worked largely in policy development and business management across several departments, ending up as a deputy director in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
On leaving the civil service, he freelanced as a policy, management and governance consultant and became a trustee of several national and local charities.
He is also a long-standing member of Exeter Green Party.