Bristol-based video marketing agency Hurricane has won a third award for its animation for charity Together for Short Lives. The team picked up a regional Media Innovation Award last night for its short film We’re Having a Baby in the animation category. The accolade follows a Digital Entrepreneur Award...
Bristol-based exhibition stand design and build firm Clip has invested £120,000 in new machinery as the final stage in an ambitious two-year project to replace of all of its printing devices and position the company at the cutting edge of digital technology. Its new Durst Omega 2 digital printing...
Bristol-based structural engineers Clarkebond have been appointed to help design a student accommodation development which will be the tallest building in Wales. A planning application for the 42-storey building in Cardiff’s new city centre enterprise zone has just been submitted. Called Custom House, it will also be the tallest...
Marguarita Tyne, a personal injury partner in law firm Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office, has been appointed to the AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) specialist clinical negligence panel. AvMA works with patients injured as a result of medical mistakes and its panel is made up of highly experienced specialists who...
The Bristol office of property adviser Bilfinger GVA has made five appointments across its building, planning, lease consultancy and business development teams. Two of the new starters are part of Bilfinger GVA’s highly sought after graduate programme. Ed O’Grady has joined the lease consultancy team as senior surveyor, specialising...
Firms and their staff are being urged to help shape a blueprint for the future provision of housing and transport across the West of England. The major consultation is being led by the area’s four local authorities and follows estimates that 85,000 new and affordable homes will be needed...
The body tasked with driving up innovation in the West of England’s growing healthcare sector has generated more than £12m to support collaborative projects between health service providers, industry and universities. The West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) plays a critical role in improving healthcare delivery throughout...
SETsquared, the University of Bristol-backed innovation partnership, has been named as the best in the world after creating 9,000 jobs and contributing £3.8bn to the UK economy. From its launch 13 years ago, SETsquared – which has its Bristol base at the city’s Engine Shed innovation hub – has...
The CBI welcomed the spending review’s commitment to longer-term investment in the economy but said there was a sting in the tail in the size and scope of the £3m apprenticeship levy. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “Businesses will be pleased to see the Chancellor staying the course on deficit...
The Chancellor’s pledge to build 400,000 homes over the next five years was warmly welcomed by property firm Bilfinger GVA Bristol-based regional senior director Jo Davis. But she added: “In the South West the ability to deliver these targets will depend on the availability of suitable land. The location...
Bristol business experts have given a broadly upbeat reaction to this week’s Autumn Statement and Spending Review. James Durie, pictured below, chief executive of Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative – part of Business West – said it contained some positive news for the city-region. “Once again the ‘builder’...
Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone is to be made bigger to help pay for the much-needed upgrade of Temple Meads station. The extension of the 70-hectare (173-acre) zone, which has already attracted around 2,000 jobs to the area, was included in the announcement of 26 new enterprise zones by...
Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his Autumn Statement and Spending Review. These are the main points: Chancellor says five years ago UK economy was in crisis. Debt will fall this year. £12bn of welfare savings will be delivered in full. Britain has grown faster than any other G7 countries...
