Bristol PR agency JBP has been appointed by the Bristol Music Trust, which runs the city’s iconic music venue Colston Hall, to provide media and political communications support for its £45m transformation appeal. The agency will manage the communications campaign Thank You for the Music which aims to make...
Bristol City Council has appointed an experienced EU affairs professional to give the city a direct representative in Brussels for the first time. Paul Davies’ appointment will build on Bristol’s longstanding relationship with Europe and is ideally timed as the city prepares to embark on its year as European...
Jennifer Angus, a graduate planner in the Bristol office of property adviser GVA, has received a highly-prestigious national award from the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) for her MSc Urban Planning Dissertation project. Jennifer’s thesis was selected as the winning entry in the Excellence in Spatial Planning Research student...
Bristol Airport has opened a £950,000 fire-fighting training facility to help it maintain its position as having one of the UK’s best-performing airport fire teams. The state-of-the-art facility will enable the airport’s dedicated Rescue and Fire-Fighting Service (RFFS) to simulate a range of emergencies involving a Boeing 737, an...
Bristol’s small and medium-sized manufacturers were today urged to take advantage of a new scheme which could help them win contracts from the UK’s rapidly-developing £60bn civil nuclear new build programme. The link-up between the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) will...
The economic recovery may not be as strong as anticipated despite the latest fall in unemployment, Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, has warned. While welcoming the 1.6% year-on-year drop in the number of people out of work in the South...
The Bristol office of accountancy firm Smith & Williamson, has hosted an exhibition of art shortlisted for the 27th annual Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014 – the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK. A private viewing of 93 original works by 73 artists included four from Somerset...
Thatchers Gold has swept the board at the Australian Cider Awards despite being available in the country for less than a year. The cider, made by family-owned Thatchers in Sandford, near Weston-super-Mare, scooped the awards for Best Cider and Best International Cider, before going on to receive the top...
Warmley brewer Bath Ales, best known for its range of award-winning beers, has produced its first spirit – in a limited edition of just 100 bottles. Gem Aqua Vitae, a 42% vol single malt spirit, has been made using wort from Bath Ales’ brewery. Wort is the liquid produced...
National law firm Clarke Willmott is expanding its social housing team following a number of high-profile client wins. Jonathan Stokes, pictured, has been appointed as head of plot sales in the firm’s commercial property team based in the Bristol office. The move means a return to Clarke Willmott for...
Shares in luxury goods brand Mulberry fell sharply after it warned its annual profits will be “significantly” lower than expected. The group, based at Chilcompton, Somerset, and best known for its upmarket handbags, is undergoing a major restructuring after several years of dwindling profits. But chairman Godfrey Davis, who...
International accountancy firm PwC is to relocate its Bristol office to the showpiece 2 Glass Wharf scheme at Temple Quay in a move that reinforces the recovery of the city’s commercial property sector. PwC is taking just over 37,000 sq ft in the 100,000 sq ft office building, pictured...
The benefits of floating on the London Stock Exchange will be spelled out to financial directors this week at the next meeting of the accountants Grant Thornton’s quarterly FD Club. Lucy Tarleton, the LSE’s representative for London and the South of England, will join Tim Lincoln, head of Grant...
