Staff at law firm Withy King in Bath have raised more than £13,000 for the Royal United Hospital’s Forever Friends Appeal through their ‘summer of sport’ Since March they have been walking, cycling and climbing to raise funds to help the appeal to build a pioneering centre for the hospital. Their fund-raising activities started...
The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed Barbara Davies as its new chief executive. The LEP’s former head of place and infrastructure, Barbara Davies, pictured, has been acting as interim director since former chief executive Paul Wilson quit six weeks ago. Barbara has worked at the LEP, which is tasked with...
Bristol Airport has announced a £8.6m extension of its terminal – the first major expansion of the building since it opened in 14 years ago. The scheme forms the latest stage of a large-scale, phased development at the airport which will lift capacity from 6m to 10m passengers a year. Bosses also hope it...
Further evidence of an impending skills shortage among West firms that could threaten to derail the economic recovery has emerged from a report predicting the strongest jobs growth since 1998. The national survey by accountants BDO shows businesses’ hiring intentions rose sharply last month to surpass their pre-recession figure and reach their highest level...
Bath firms are facing a looming skills crisis – yet there are thousands of young people desperate to work, new research warned this week. The study by the Prince’s Trust and HSBC reveals that 69% of businesses across the South West believe a significant skills crisis will hit their organisations within the next three...
Bristol & Bath Science Park, with its state-of-the-art innovation centre, has again been used as the setting for a film promoting advanced technology. The Science Park, based between the two cities at Emersons Green and backed by the University of Bath, stars in a promotional film for the new Samsung Galaxy S5, which tells...
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Fast-growing Bath-based creative agency Mr B & Friends has launched a sister business CXCo to meet spiraling demand for customer experience (CX) consultancy services. CXCo specialises in helping clients measure, develop and manage their CX. According to the team behind CXCo, in the age of the consumer when the fortune and financial wellbeing of...
Bath Rugby has extended its contract with CircleBath Hospital, taking the partnership into its fourth year. Under the agreement, the club has use of the hospital’s radiology department for sports injury treatment. The players also have access to the expertise of CircleBath’s world-class consultants, including Dr Julian Widdowson, its lead practitioner for sports medicine...
Northern Lights Fireworks, the Trowbridge-based pyrotechnic display company, is hoping its name will go up in lights next week when it competes in the British Firework Championships. Staged over two evenings next Tuesday and Wednesday, the event will involve six of the UK’s leading firework display teams battling it out over the seafront area...
