John Savage, the Bristol businessman, campaigner and driving force behind the city’s Chamber of Commerce & Initiative, has become Labour's candidate in the Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner election. Dr Savage, who chairs the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, took over the candidacy today after the party’s...
Bristol remains the UK’s hub for creativity and digital innovation with a world-class talent pool and productivity levels outpacing those achieved by most London firms, new research shows. But despite this leading edge, many of the city’s creative firms still face the twin challenges of tough market conditions and...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The former Lord Mayor of Bristol Cllr Geoff Gollop has been selected as the Conservative candidate for Bristol elected mayor ballot later this year. Party members chose the accountant and Westbury-on-Trym councillor at a hustings in the ward last night. Cllr Gollop beat Tory group...
UWE Bristol expects to build on its 11th-place ranking in the ‘green league’ of UK universities with a major drive to cut carbon emissions and slash energy costs. Solar panel arrays installed at its Frenchay Campus are already paying off through cheaper bills and in future will begin to...
The Bristol Office of property agents Christie + Co has sold a care home in Midsomer Norton to a businessman making his first venture into the sector. Previous owners the Thomas Family sold the detached property, which is one a large plot with attractive residents' gardens, to Paul Nery...
Bristol communications consultancy JBP PR & Parliamentary Affairs has made a number of senior appointments as part of its growth plan, including taking on former Northcliffe South West regional managing director Steve Anderson-Dixon as a non-executive director. The agency’s founder Jennifer Bryant-Pearson, pictured, becomes group chief executive while directors...
The Co-operative Group has appointed Adrian Buxton as general manager at its new £20m regional food distribution depot in Avonmouth, which is due to open later this year. Adrian, pictured, joined The Co-operative in an administrative role in 1979 and worked his way up to managing food stores before...
Bristol-based A-Gas International, one of the world’s largest independent suppliers of refrigerants, associated environmental services, and speciality gases and chemicals, has completed the acquisition of US firm RemTec International, a specialist in the controlled halocarbon management and sustainability industry. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal...
Bristol Airport has become the first in the world to give passengers the chance to order food and drink in its bars and lounges via their smartphones. Customers can download a free app called QikServe in seconds, place their order and then have their food served at their table...
West accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has been named as the UK’s fastest-growing firm in Accountancy Age magazine’s annual Top 50 league table. The firm, which has an office in Bristol and recently expanded into Bath, achieved an annual growth rate of 28%, according to Accountancy Age. The analysis also...
Bristol’s latest independent pizza delivery firm, The Red Pizza Company, has opened today with a promise to shake up the city’s fast-food sector. Key to its success, claims owner Oliver South, will be head chef Piotr Wroblowski (pictured below), recent holder of the title of the UK’s fastest pizza...
Railway tunnels in and around Bristol are among more than 40 historic buildings and structures on the Great Western main line to be safeguarded by the Government. Brunel’s iconic entrance to Box Tunnel in Wiltshire and the entry portals of the Chipping Sodbury tunnel near Badminton and its six...
A West accountant is warning the region’s motor traders and restaurant owners that they are to be targeted by new taskforces created by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to check and collect tax payments. And even if they have nothing to hide these visits could still cost them dearly...
