Mr Electric franchise owner Steve Price and his electrician brother Phillip are taking part in an abseil at Old Trafford.

The pair are descending from the North Stand, one of the highest football stands in Europe, on Sunday 28 March to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

The free-air abseil will give 150 daredevil fundraisers the opportunity to get a bird’s eye view of the pitch.

The brothers are taking the plunge because Phillip’s son Owen Walker-Price was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when he was only four weeks old. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK’s most common, life-threatening inherited diseases and claims three lives a week in the UK. 

“Owen is doing fine at the moment,” says Price, “but he has to be isolated from other sufferers of CF for the first two years. His parents have to be careful with him due to his immune system.”

Sponsor Steve and Phillip to help raise money to support the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust

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The leader gas and electrical safety services and home maintenance franchise has taken to the streets with a vehicle branding campaign to advertise its economical energy-saving solution, the g3.

The g3 is a three-pronged product bundle that not only saves money on heating bills, but also reduces carbon emissions.

John Davidson, gas-elec managing director, says: “Gas-elec’s award-winning g-save smart boiler economiser and comparison website, gas-elec Compare, and the e-save Electricity Monitor tackle the combined issue of saving money and energy.”

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Electrical franchise Mr Electric signed three new franchisees at the recent National Franchise Exhibition.

The show, which took place at the NEC in Birmingham, is attended by thousands of budding entrepreneurs each year looking for the right franchise.

Having already welcomed 15 new franchisees so far this year, Mr Electric has now also sold the Durham and north-east regions.

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From The Birmingham Post: Franchising could be the answer for potential business owners made wary by the credit crunch, a successful local firm has said.

Bromsgrove-based Mr Electric has seen a large influx of new franchisees joining the electrical services group since the start of the year, despite the difficult financial conditions.

And it said more and more people were starting to see the advantage of running a franchise business under a parent company.

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