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Innovative projects ranging from the world’s first solar-powered balloon to a major festival looking at the future shape of cities across the globe will thrust Bristol into the international spotlight as 2015 European Green Capital. The first initiatives that will make up Bristol’s year as green capital were announced...
Bristol’s media landscape has undergone its biggest changes in decades this week with the launch of a major new magazine, website and app and a new TV channel dedicated to the city. B24/7 has emerged from the successful, independent websites Bristol24/7, Bristol Culture and Bristol Listings. It includes a...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has won the Law Society Excellence Award for Excellence in Equality & Diversity. The firm was also shortlisted in the junior lawyer of the year category. Winners were selected by a panel of senior industry experts and represent the brightest and best talent the legal...
Learning disability charity Brandon Trust is celebrating after their one-day pop-up market in Bristol’s Cabot Circus raised nearly £3,000 to help fund its work in the region. In the week leading up to market day, 100 staff from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon volunteered alongside people with learning disabilities...
Global engineering, network and operations group Cyient has relocated its UK office from Almondsbury to Portishead to meet its expansion plans. The firm, whose global headquarters are in Hyderabad, India, set up the Bristol division in 2007 to service clients in the UK and Scandinavia. It has now leased...
Accountancy firm Grant Thornton is predicting further growth in the South West in tandem with its national practice, which this week recorded its fifth successive year of strong results. Revenue across the UK was up 9% to £512m for the financial year ended June 30, hitting its turnover target...
The best photos showing Bristol at work, rest and play will be unveiled this evening as the city’s pioneering 24 Hours in Bristol photographic competition reaches its conclusion. More than 10,000 photographs are estimated to have been taken by 200-plus amateur and professional photographers from across the UK and...
Bristol’s economy is in line for a multi-million pound boost and thousands of new jobs after the European Commission finally gave the go-ahead for the £24.5bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. The controversial plant, on the Somerset coast near Bridgwater, will be Britain’s first new nuclear reactor for...
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed a new lead partner for the South West as it prepares to grow its staff by a fifth and expand its regional head office. Andrea Bishop, an experienced audit partner who has been at the firm for 10 years, has taken over from Graham...
Bristol-based healthy fast food group Friska has secured an investment of £1.25m towards its long-term goal of becoming a national chain. The money, raised through two angel investors and Santander, will allow Friska to open 10 new sites in Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. It forms the first stage of...
Bristol’s burgeoning links with China have been strengthened following the visit of a high-powered delegation from Shenzhen – the city often described as the country’s silicon valley. The event, staged by the West of England China Bureau and supported by inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath and HSBC,...
