West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris is calling on employers to help increase the number of apprenticeships in the region. With an estimated £4m to £8m of unused Apprenticeship Levy funds returned to the Treasury each year, Mayor Norris is calling for apprentice levy-paying employers to give their unused funds to a new...
Two sewage and food waste-powered trucks bought by utility group Wessex Water will hit Bristol’s roads this summer, ushering in a transport revolution that could potentially slash greenhouse gas emissions and improve the city’s air quality. The vehicles, pictured, which follow in the tyre tracks of the firm’s pioneering ‘poo...
Payaca, a Bristol software business revolutionising the way home improvement firms manage their workloads, has clinched £400,000 in funding, enabling it to create seven jobs over the next six months. The firm has developed job management software that is successfully being used by more than 260 businesses to manage everything from creating interactive proposals with multiple payment options through to integrations...
Boxpark, the trendy London street food outlet, has selected Bristol for its first venture outside the capital, with a scheme that will regenerate the city’s last remaining undeveloped Harbourside buildings. Called BoxHall, it will open next year in the O&M Sheds on Welsh Back, transforming buildings that at one...
Bristol’s Old Vic theatre has appointed the Mayor of London’s Ambassador for Culture Bernard Donoghue as the new chair of its board of trustees, with Black South West Network director Sado Jirde as vice-chair. They take over this month from out-going chair Dame Liz Forgan, who is to step down from...
The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bristol Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to...
The BBC has confirmed it is to relocate a large part of its Bristol operation from Whiteladies Road in Clifton to a modern city centre office building. Staff from BBC Studios, which includes its globally renown Natural History Unit, will move to Bridgewater House, pictured, part of the Finzels...
Bristol independent animation studio A Productions has scooped a national TV industry award for an iconic series that has broken new ground in pre-school programming. JoJo and Gran Gran: It’s Time to Go to the Hairdresser’s, pictured, won the Best Pre-School Programme category at the Broadcast Awards, which celebrate the best in British...
Bristol’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England...
Global architecture and engineering design practice BDP has appointed Bristol-based Nick Fairham as its next chief executive, a role that will involve him leading more than 1,000 staff working in studios around the world. Nick, pictured right, who is currently responsible for BDP’s bases in Bristol, Cardiff, the Middle East...
The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back to Bristol and Bath this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and...
Robot football players met newly elected Metro Mayor Dan Norris as they took part in a futuristic soccer tournament at Bristol’s We The Curious science centre. Ahead of the bank holiday weekend and half term the Metro Mayor visited the educational tourism attraction and personalised his own robot ahead of...
Specialist laboratory facilities, services and support for Bristol’s expanding science and engineering ecosystem have come a step closer as construction of the city’s £6m deep tech incubator passes the half-way mark. The 30,000 sq ft incubator in Old Market will house up to 250 highly skilled workers in the...
