Musician Jools Holland, actress Joanna Lumley, Britain’s foremost hat designer Philip Treacy and Bristol graffiti artist Inkie have today been named among the final line-up of top-flight artists and celebrities taking part in the city’s ground-breaking charity initiative Gromit Unleashed. With less than two weeks to go before 80...
Bristol-based chartered accountants Whyatt Pakeman Partners are urging hauliers and transport firms to take advantage of new enhanced capital allowances. The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA), introduced in 2008, enables businesses to claim 100% tax relief on qualifying expenditure on plant and machinery in the year of purchase. From January...
The work of new and emerging artists from refugee backgrounds is to be showcased to West organisations and businesses to explore ways they can be employed on creative projects. The groundbreaking initiative, the result of a link-up between St George’s Bristol and Platforma South West, the arts and refugees...
The former head of broadcast at Bristol-based Aardman Animations, Miles Bullough, and former BBC creative executive Jesse Cleverly have teamed up to launch an entertainment content incubator to help creatives looking for funding and expertise. The pair are calling on emerging and established creators to get in touch with...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol Mayor George Ferguson was last night described as “arrogant” and “undemocratic” in attempting to force his residents’ parking zones (RPZ) plans onto communities that did not want them. Mr Ferguson faced the combined opposition of an angry public and all parties on Bristol City...
More than a quarter of West law firms are at risk of failure in the next 12 months, according to an alarming new report. But the research by R3, the insolvency trade body, shows that the West’s expected failure rate of 28% over the next year is lower than...
Bristol’s award-winning farmers’ market today celebrates its 15th anniversary – for the second time in just over a week. The double celebration ensures visitors and shoppers have plenty of opportunity to join the weekly and fortnightly traders in the anniversary celebrations. As part of the celebrations the Lord Mayor...
Bristol architectural practice Stride Treglown is celebrating double success for its ambitious £35m Heartlands regeneration project in Cornwall in the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) awards. As a result of winning the RIBA South West & Wessex Client of the Year Award 2013 and RIBA National Award 2013,...
The world’s biggest air industry get-together – the bi-annual Paris Air Show – has got underway with Airbus landing the first blows in the time-honoured dog fight for aircraft sales. But as the week-long show progresses it could be Boeing, European-owned Airbus’s US rival, that emerges triumphant in the...
Bristol’s M Shed museum has celebrated the second anniversary of its opening by revealing it has received more than 1.3m visitors over that period – well over twice as many as anticipated. Since opening in the landmark 1950s transit sheds on Bristol’s historic waterfront, M Shed has been longlisted...
Business turnaround and insolvency specialist Wilson Field has opened an office in Bristol as part of an expansion that takes it into the South West and Wales markets for the first time. The firm, formed in Sheffield in 2001, has opened its South West base at Broad Quay House...
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Bristol will stage a programme of events based around the idea of the city as a ‘laboratory for change’ now it has become the European Green Capital 2015. Building on Bristol’s long history of experimenting, innovating and learning, the city will showcase the results of innovations and experiments that...
