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Milsted Langdon staff take to the water to help with Bristol Harbour spring clean

March 25, 2022
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Milsted Langdon staff take to the water to help with Bristol Harbour spring clean

The restructuring and insolvency team from the Bristol office of accountancy firm Milsted Langdon joined the clean-up the city’s harbour as part of an ongoing charity campaign. The six specialists took to the water despite overcast conditions and the odd downpour as part of the Clean up Bristol Harbour...

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Foot Anstey spearheads scheme to stamp out abuse of retail staff after shock rise in incidents

March 24, 2022
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Foot Anstey spearheads scheme to stamp out abuse of retail staff after shock rise in incidents

A national campaign to create safer working environments for shop workers has been launched by law firm Foot Anstey and industry charity the Retail Trust. The certification scheme is aimed at protecting and reassuring shop workers as they face rising levels of abuse and inappropriate behaviour. Several well-known retailers...

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Experienced private client adviser joins TLT to boost its trust and estate offering

March 24, 2022
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Experienced private client adviser joins TLT to boost its trust and estate offering

Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has strengthened its trust and estate team with the appointment of Claire Johnson as legal director. Claire’s appointment follows a growth in demand for the firm’s tax and succession planning expertise in the domestic and international sphere from private and corporate clients.  Claire, pictured,...

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GL Law’s corporate & commercial team appoints new associate director

March 21, 2022
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GL Law’s corporate & commercial team appoints new associate director

Specialist corporate lawyer Nic Barker has joined GL Law to build on the Bristol firm’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisition services to small and medium-sized businesses across the South West. Nic, pictured, has experience across a range of sectors, including development finance, healthcare and owner-managed businesses.  Having spent...

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Developers say new retirement community will be Bristol’s first net zero carbon later-living scheme

March 21, 2022
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Developers say new retirement community will be Bristol’s first net zero carbon later-living scheme

Plans to create Bristol’s first net zero integrated retirement community – which will also include a new leisure and activity hub open to the public – have been submitted to Bristol City Council. The £85m proposal for St Christopher’s Square in Westbury Park have been drawn up following extensive community...

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Osborne Clarke strengthens its energy and utilities sector offering with three new partners

March 20, 2022
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Osborne Clarke strengthens its energy and utilities sector offering with three new partners

Three specialist energy and infrastructure lawyers are joining international legal practice Osborne Clarke as partners from the London office of US specialist firm Orrick. Partners John Deacon, Dominic O’Brien and Hannah Roscoe will significantly boost the Osborne Clarke’s energy and utility sector offering, particularly in the sub-sectors of renewables...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

March 19, 2022
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Monday March 21 Finals: Spectral MD Holdings, Photo-Me International, VH Global Sustainable Energy Tuesday March 22 Finals: Alliance Pharma, The Pebble Group, Diaceutics, Kape Technologies, Staffline Group, Fintel, Sabre Insurance Group, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Luceco, Zotefoams, Longboat Energy, Yu Group Interims: YouGov, SCS Group, Softcat, Diurnal Group Wednesday March 23 Finals: Henry...

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Bristol tops UK league table for successful university spin-out businesses

March 18, 2022
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Bristol tops UK league table for successful university spin-out businesses

University of Bristol spin-out companies generate higher average returns on investment than those of any other UK university, a new study has found. The University Spin-out Report revealed that over 20 years the average UK spin-out generates around double the original capital raised.  But Bristol’s spin-outs average 285%, putting the...

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Tech pioneer returns to Bristol to launch state-of-the-art lab for ground-breaking microchips

March 18, 2022
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Tech pioneer returns to Bristol to launch state-of-the-art lab for ground-breaking microchips

Bristol tech start-up Zero Point Motion has raised £2.58m in a seed funding round to build a state-of-the-art lab in the city as it develops a new kind of navigation and motion-sensing microchip. The investment also means that Zero Point Motion founder and CEO Dr Ying Lia Li, pictured,...

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Tilney Smith & Williamson webinar to highlight benefits of automation using software robotics

March 18, 2022
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Tilney Smith & Williamson webinar to highlight benefits of automation using software robotics

Acquisition-hungry Bristol businesses can find out how software robotics could help revolutionise their financial reporting at an online event hosted by accountancy group Tilney Smith & Williamson next week. The webinar on Wednesday, March 23, will explain the benefits of robotic process automation (RPA) and Tilney Smith & Williamson’s...

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Funding boost for Long Covid research backed by National Friendly and Bristol Hippodrome

March 18, 2022
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Funding boost for Long Covid research backed by National Friendly and Bristol Hippodrome

More than £15,000 has been raised for research into the impact of Long Covid in a unique link-up between The Bristol Hippodrome, city-based specialist finance firm National Friendly and the Southmead Hospital Charity. The three organisations teamed up last November to launch the appeal to support pioneering work into...

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Taxi Studio hails new staff arrivals, including non-exec chair, as it gears up for new phase of growth

March 17, 2022
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Taxi Studio hails new staff arrivals, including non-exec chair, as it gears up for new phase of growth

Bristol branding agency Taxi Studio has made a series of appointments, including hiring the Post Office group’s chief retail officer as chairman, to fuel its expansion in the UK and overseas markets such as North America. The move follows a succession of major new business wins over the past year,...

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Bristol businesses to benefit from council’s free electric vehicle trials in run-up to Clean Air Zone launch

March 17, 2022
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Bristol businesses to benefit from council’s free electric vehicle trials in run-up to Clean Air Zone launch

Free trials of electric vehicles (EVs) are being offered to Bristol firms by the city council to encourage them to switch to cleaner ways of travelling ahead of the launch of the city’s Clean Air Zone later this summer. The council is offering businesses the chance to trial electric...

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