Bristol Airport is gearing up for its busiest Christmas period for two years as it continues to rapidly recover from the impact of the pandemic. Up to 350,000 passengers are expected to use the airport between today and 3 January, with one of the busiest times being Boxing Day, when around 20,000 people traveling...
Octopus Films, the Bath video production company, has teamed up with the creators of much-loved TV bear Sooty to produce a special Christmas charity music video. The film, the firm’s first music production, accompanies Sooty’s new single, a reworking of the Christmas classic The Most Magical Time Of The Year. All proceeds from sales of the...
The University of Bath is partnering with a Norwegian health tech company to improve its ground-breaking sensor technology used by people with diabetes. Lifecare AS, which has just opened a UK head office in Bath, has developed the smallest glucose sensor in the world for continuous monitoring. The size of a grain of rice,...
Bath-headquartered national law firm Stone King is showing its commitment to older workers by becoming one of the first businesses to sign up to a new nationwide programme. The Age-Friendly Employer Pledge is run by the Centre for Ageing Better, which supports organisations to improve the recruitment, retention and development of workers aged 50 and...
Bath Business School has become the first higher education provider in the South West to offer its undergraduates the opportunity to receive an internationally recognised digital marketing accreditation. Students on BA Marketing and BA Sports Management courses at the school, pictured, part of Bath Spa University, will be able to obtain an Associate Digital Marketing Professional...
New occupiers for a shopping centre that changed hands this summer in a multi-million pound deal are being sought by its recently appointed property agency – with an emphasis on restaurant, leisure and health operators. National property consultancy Carter Jonas was taken as the sole leasing agents for the Emery Gate centre in Chippenham,...
Bath Spa University is celebrating the success of former student Veronica Ryan OBE in winning this year’s Turner Prize. Having studied for a BA in Fine Art at the Corsham Court campus-based Bath Academy of Art (now Bath Spa University’s Bath School of Art, Film and Media) from 1975-1978, Veronica Ryan, pictured, went on...
Manufacturers in the South West face a tough year ahead with the sector expected to contract in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook at home and abroad, according to a new survey. The region’s manufacturing businesses are ending 2022 on a low, having suffered falling orders and a cutback in recruitment. But results...
Monday December 12 Interim: Coral Products Economic announcements: Index of Services, Industrial Production, Balance of Trade, Gross Domestic Product Tuesday December 13 Finals: Chemring, Hyve Group, Image Scan Holdings Interim: Sosandar Trading announcement: Ocado Economic announcements: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate Wednesday December 14 Finals: Tui AG, IntegraFin Holdings Interims: Cyanconnode Holdings Economic announcements: Retail price index, Consumer price index, Producer price index...
Bristol Airport is on course to return to its pre-Covid passenger levels next year after its two biggest low-cost airlines Ryanair and easyJet this week announced they are to base more aircraft there and introduce new destinations. Ryanair is to increase its Bristol-based fleet from four to five planes next summer, which will allow...
