A three-boat flotilla carrying a selection of colourful, life-sized gorilla sculptures toured Bristol’s Floating Harbour today to launch Bristol Zoo’s Wow! Gorillas – a mass public art trail across the city. Some 60 unique gorilla sculptures are being placed around Bristol’s streets and parks over the next few days...
Brandon Hire, the Bristol-based tool hire firm, has appointed property adviser GVA to provide property portfolio management services for its national network of 170 branches. GVA, which has an office in Bristol, will be responsible for property data management, maintaining all property and lease records, dilapidations advice with landlords,...
Investors are being sought to help kick start a mixed-use development scheme on brownfield land with nearly 200 apartments and commercial space. The development makes imaginative use of a freehold site once occupied by the Pring & St Hill steel fabrication factory in Malago Road, Bedminster, which closed in 2003...
North Somerset Council appears to have caved in to public pressure and submitted a funding bid to re-open the Portishead rail link to passenger trains. But while the bid is earlier than planned the timeline for getting the line operational remains unchanged. Last month the Transport for Greater Bristol Alliance...
New fears were cast over the strength of the economic recovery today as the latest manufacturing survey showed growth fell to its lowest rate for 21 months in June. A decline in new orders was sparked by weakening domestic demand while the much-heralded increase in exports appeared to waning....
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club has scaled back its plans for redevelopment of the County Ground in Bihsopston, Bristol. Planning permission to expand the ground was secured last year but the club has decided that for the foreseeable future it will not build stands adjacent to Kennington Avenue, thus reducing capacity...
Firms are being warned they could risk unlimited fines or even jail if they don’t take action over the new Bribery Act, which comes into force today. The Act makes it illegal to offer or receive bribes and to fail to prevent bribery. Individuals convicted under the Act can...
Independent news and information website Bristol24-7 is celebrating its second birthday by unveiling a complete revamp of its site and enhancing its digital marketing services. The site, winner of the website of the year award in the recent EDF Energy South West Media Awards, now has around 50,000 unique...
Bristol-based factoring specialist Ultimate has linked up with the Finance South East (FSE) Group to give more funding options to ambitious SMEs seeking finance to grow their business. The tie-up will combine cashflow lending products such as factoring and invoice discounting with the provision of complementary loan products currently...
Rob Law, director of Magmatic and designer of Trunki, the children's ride-on suitcase, is hosting an exclusive event at Bristol’s Harvey Nichols to raise money for The Prince’s Trust. The Bristol-based entrepreneur, who won backing for his business on BBC1’s Dragon’s Den, will tell guests about his experiences in...
Colliers International has been appointed joint agents alongside DTZ for the refurbished Pithay building – one of Bristol city centre's biggest office blocks offering some of the largest open-plan floor spaces. The eight-storey building has around 52,000 sq ft of accommodation on offer over five floors including the third...
The £29m seafront improvements at Weston-super-Mare have won another award – this time from The Institute of Civil Engineers which has identified the improvements as the best major scheme in the South West. It follows hot on the heels of a commendation for the scheme from the Concrete Society and also...
More than 250 volunteers across the South West are trading their usual Friday at work for a day of voluntary work as part of Give & Gain Day, the UK’s only national day of employee volunteering run by business charity Business in the Community. Working in teams, they are contributing...
