IT innovator SciSys has secured a €2m (£1.59m) order to develop software for the next Mars rover as part of the European Space Agency’s 2018 mission to the red planet. The Chippenham-based firm, which has its roots in the space industry, will work on the vehicle visual localisation flight software (VISLOC) responsible for self-localising...
Peter Blair, the QC from Bath who helped bring tax-avoiding celebrities such as Gary Barlow to book, has been appointed by the Queen as a circuit judge. Mr Blair, pictured, the head of Bristol’s Guildhall Chambers for the past eight years, will try civil and criminal cases at Swindon law courts from October 1....
With the outcome of Thursday’s Scottish independence referendum on a knife edge, commentators have started to ask what impact an independent Scotland would have on business here in the West of England. James Durie, executive director of Business West, peers into the unknown . . . Read every pundit’s verdict on the potential fall-out...
Monday 15 September Interims: Bond International Software, MP Evans, Quixant, SimiGon, Sphere Medical, Telit Communications Finals: Avanti Communications, Monitise, Mysale Group AGMs: Fastnet Oil & Gas, Rockhopper Exploration EGM: Action Hotels Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 16 September Interims: Christie Group, IQE, Lidco, Porta Communications, Silence Therapeutics, TLA Worldwide Finals: Craneware, Galliford Try, Pan...
Access-to-Time, the Midsomer Norton-based company that helped revolutionise the way that businesses monitor and pay their staff, has rebranded as part of an expansion programme. The firm, whose sales have doubled in the past, has relaunched itself under the name Chronologic following a move into a range of new product and service areas. Established...
Helen Witcombe, a personal assistant at Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management, is preparing to scale Africa’s highest mountain in support of children with life-limiting conditions. Helen, pictured, will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise much-needed funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). Her epic adventure will involve travelling to Tanzania next month where she will spend...
Innovative waste management firm Advetec has joined 10 other fast-growing UK businesses on an international trade mission to Abu Dhabi and Dubai to showcase their products and services. Radstock-based Advetec’s pioneering equipment transforms waste into soil or fuel for energy production and is already used across Europe, the US, India, Africa, South America and...
Brewer and pub operator Bath Ales’ flagship beer, Gem, has won one of the most prestigious international brewing awards. The International Beer Challenge considers more than 500 brews from 30-plus countries. As well as receiving a Gold Medal, Gem also scooped the highly-coveted trophy for its category – the Best Ale up to 5% abv – in the view of...
Bristol Airport continued to break its own passenger number records in August by achieving another best-ever monthly total and recording the busiest day in its history. Some 723,000 people used the airport last month as the holiday getaway season reached its peak. On one day alone – August 14 – 25,390 passed through the...
Simon Walshe, an independent financial adviser based in Chase de Vere’s Bath office, has secured a double accolade in his professional examinations for the second consecutive year. Simon gained the highest scores of all South West entrants in the AF3 paper on pension planning and the Best Completion award in Advanced Diploma in Financial...
