Bristol’s role as a centre of excellence for advanced engineering has been boosted by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the University of Bristol and aero-engineering group GKN Aerospace. The agreement will support the Faculty of Engineering’s research and engineering students through new types of student internship, by...
An 80-bedroom landmark hotel designed by Bristol firm Key Architecture has been given the go-ahead by planners in a move that will kick-start regeneration of a rundown part of Bridgwater. Sedgemoor District Council approved the scheme (pictured below) after clarifying car parking on the site in the town’s Eastover...
More than a quarter of South West law firms are at risk of going out of business over the next year as they face the combined challenges of the impact of the recession and the introduction of far-reaching reforms. The warning comes from R3, the trade body for insolvency...
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Bristol City Council has won £50,000 funding from the Government-backed Technology Strategy Board to look at ways of boosting the local economy and is now in with a chance of securing £24m to set up a large-scale ‘Future City Demonstrator’. As more and more people live in cities there...
Laura Ketland has joined the Bristol office of accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton as marketing and business development executive. A former project manager at event management company In Any Event UK, Laura (pictured) holds a wedding and event management diploma. She has also worked as a PA and...
The shortlist for the region’s top public relations awards has been revealed with some of the West’s top PR agencies competing for the 2012 West of England CIPR PRide Awards. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony and dinner on November 9 at the Grand Hotel, Bristol....
Bristol is to bid once again for the title of Europe’s Greenest City. After making it to the finals of the European Green Capital Award 2014 and being pipped at the post by Copenhagen, Bristol has voted overwhelmingly in favour of going for the title for 2015. Chair of...
The annual survey for UK entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship UK: 2012/13, has been launched by accountants and business advisory firm Deloitte. Now in its fifth year, the survey is an authoritative report on the sector, reflecting the attitudes, performance and objectives of entrepreneurs and their businesses. Last year’s survey results in...
Bristol inventor Lorna Perks has won top prize worth £200,000 in the Orange Different Business competition with her idea for Pillpod – a device that only dispenses the right medication at the right time and will advise patients in a simple language how to take it correctly. With Pillpod,...
From Bristol 24-7 Controversial plans to turn Clifton’s derelict Whiteladies Picture House into flats and a gym have been thrown out. All six councillors on the Bristol City Council planning committee last night voted against the plan – with one describing the state of the Grade-II listed building as...
Earlier client deliveries, operating efficiencies and deferred costs helped SciSys, the specialist IT and software firm, finish its first half of 2012 finished more strongly than had been initially expected. The group, which also has an operation in Bristol and its head office inn Chippenham, also said it had...
Profits have risen by 7% at aero engine maker Rolls-Royce as airlines buy more fuel-efficient engines for their fleets. The global group, which has its main UK defence aerospace plant at Patchway, Bristol, achieved the £637m pre-tax profits increase on revenues up 5% up at £5.8bn for the six...
