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Live webinar: Power to Your Business – Solar from Start to Finish

February 28, 2024
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Live webinar: Power to Your Business – Solar from Start to Finish

Thousands of UK businesses have already switched to solar PV to reduce their carbon emissions and cut costs – are you missing out? For the third webinar in its Power to Your Business series, Solarsense will next week bring together a panel of industry leaders and sustainability experts to answer all your questions on solar –...

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Conveyancer joins Goughs as senior associate to strengthen its residential property offering

February 28, 2024
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Conveyancer joins Goughs as senior associate to strengthen its residential property offering

Regional law firm Goughs Solicitors has boosted its residential property team with the appointment of Elmira Moore as a senior associate. Elmira, pictured, has joined Goughs’ Chippenham office from South Wales law firm Twomlows Solicitors and Advocates, where she has spent the past year as its head of conveyancing. Prior to that she worked...

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Wincanton facing bidding war as US business mulls rival bid to approved offer from French group

February 26, 2024
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Wincanton facing bidding war as US business mulls rival bid to approved offer from French group

Logistics group Wincanton could find itself at the centre of a takeover battle as US-owned global operator GXO Logistics considers tabling a counter offer to one made last month by French-owned shipping giant CMA CGM. GXO, which owns Clipper Logistics in the UK, surprised directors at Chippenham-headquartered yesterday by demanding access to due diligence...

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Truck driver’s idea drives home mental health charity’s message to construction industry workers

February 26, 2024
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Truck driver’s idea drives home mental health charity’s message to construction industry workers

A national construction materials supply firm has built up its support for mental health charity Mates in Mind, thanks to a suggestion by one of its drivers. Mark Byers, who is based at Civils & Lintels’ Westbury depot, came up with the idea of using sigs on its fleet of 95 vehicles to promote...

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UK’s first master’s degree in applying AI tools to engineering and design launched by Bath Uni

February 26, 2024
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UK’s first master’s degree in applying AI tools to engineering and design launched by Bath Uni

The University of Bath is to introduce the UK’s first master’s degree course focused on applying skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to engineering and design. The MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Design at the university, pictured, will equip students with skills in applying AI tools responsibly and ethically, combining engineering and design knowledge...

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Pearson May financial round up

February 26, 2024
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Pearson May financial round up

Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. HMRC estimates cost to implement Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax self-assessment Sole traders and landlords face £350 setup costs. Click here to find out more Government finances show biggest surplus in 30 years A £16.7bn surplus has...

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Bath architects ‘embrace nature’ for their redevelopment work on high-profile site on London’s South Bank

February 26, 2024
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Bath architects ‘embrace nature’ for their redevelopment work on high-profile site on London’s South Bank

Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates is to help redevelop the site of a landmark building on London’s South Bank into a scheme that aims to prioritise wellbeing and sustainability. The environmentally-driven firm, which has completed major projects across the globe, is working with the architects and developers on 72 Upper Ground, better known as...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

February 25, 2024
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Monday February 26 Finals: Bunzl, Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz Interims: Renishaw, Tristel, Made Tech Group, Ensilica Tuesday February 27 Finals: Abrdn, Jyske Bank, Croda International, Unite, Smith & Nephew, Uniphar, Synectics Interims: Mcbride, Pci-pal Economic announcement: BRC shop price index Wednesday February 28 Finals: Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holding, AB Ignitis Grupe, Taylor Wimpey, St James’s Place, London Stock Exchange,...

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New appointment boosts Mogers Drewett’s commercial property offering

February 23, 2024
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New appointment boosts Mogers Drewett’s commercial property offering

Bath law firm Mogers Drewett has strengthened its commercial property team with the appointment of experienced lawyer Helen Gate as an associate legal executive. In her new role Helen, pictured, will advise clients on a range of issues, predominantly landlord and tenant matters, with a view to expanding her caseload to acquisitions, disposals and...

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Green hydrogen plant opened to power West of England ahead in harnessing ‘fuel of the future’

February 22, 2024
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Green hydrogen plant opened to power West of England ahead in harnessing ‘fuel of the future’

The West of England’s first green hydrogen production and storage plant has been officially opened, underpining the region’s status as a leader in research into what is widely regarded as the fuel of the future. The plant, at the state-of-the-art Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) on the Bristol and Bath Science Park,...

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