Bristol-based aero-engineers working on Rolls-Royce's innovative short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) technology are expected to benefit from a politically-embarrassing U-turn by David Cameron over the UK's next-generation fighter aircraft. The Prime Minister is widely-tipped to announce the Government will buy the F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter...
Bristol City Council’s Site Allocations Document has identified 89 brownfield sites in Bristol for building nearly 8,000 new homes. The sites include parcels of land at Hengrove Park and Knowle West. The council is now consulting the public on its ‘preferred approach’ on these sites. Meanwhile Matthew Hiles, of Flax Bourton-based CJH Land is calling...
Bristol Zoo Gardens has appointed a new head of guest services. Chris Page will be responsible for overseeing admissions, guest experience, membership, the gift shop, the 12-acre grounds and the general presentation of the zoo. Chris, originally from Yorkshire, joins the zoo’s senior management group and has responsibility for around...
More than 1,100 letters backing Bristol Rovers' proposed £40m stadium at Frenchay have been received by South Gloucestershire Council. The 20,000-seater stadium, which would also include a club shop, conference and teaching space as well as a jogging track and gym, would be a joint venture with the University...
Bristol Water has no plans to restrict supplies to businesses in the city, even though the Environment Agency today declared a drought across the whole of the South West. However, the company said its reservoirs are only 80% full at a time when it would expect them to be 97%...
Barclays has appointed Steve Gamlin as a new relationship director for its corporate banking division in Bristol. Steve, 47, has spent the past eight years at Clydesdale Bank’s Bristol office where he was responsible for providing finance and invoice discounting solutions working with clients in the mid-larger corporate market...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol’s standing as a filmmaking hub has been further strengthened by the launch of a postgraduate degree to help budding wildlife film makers follow in the footsteps of Sir David Attenborough and the BBC’s city-based Natural History Unit. The MA in wildlife film-making has been...
Advanced manufacturer Hexcel, a pioneer in developing adhesives and composite materials for the aerospace and defence industries, has become the latest UK firm to join Bristol’s National Composites Centre (NCC). The Cambridge-based firm joins innovative West companies such as Airbus, GKN Aerospace, Rolls-Royce and AgustaWestland in supporting the NCC...
The Bristol office of international architects Aedas has drawn up plansto revitalise Keynsham's town centre and an application has been submitted to Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) Council following a year of consultations with the local community. The £34m project to redevelop the existing Town Hall site includes a...
Aldermore, the bank set up two years ago by a group of investment funds, is to open an invoice finance office in Bristol as part of its ambitious expansion plans. The base, which will provide a range of financial services to small and medium-sized businesses across the South West,...
Interest rates have been pegged at 0.5% by the Bank of England for another month. The Bank also said there would be no change to its quantitative easing (QE) programme which aims to get money into the economy. Rates have been at 0.5% since March 2009 as the long...
Jelf, the independent consultancy which provides a broad range of insurance, financial services and employee benefits to corporates and individuals, says it "has enjoyed a positive start to the year" and is trading in line with expectations. The Yate-based consultancy has more than 30 branches throughout England and South Wales, mainly...
Some of Britain’s top-rated Scrabble players will be minding their Ps and Qs at the Doubletree by Hilton Cadbury House hotel in Congresbury for a four-day contest starting on Good Friday. It is the first time the venue has been asked to host the prestigious 2012 Easter Scrabble Weekend....
