A popular Bath city centre pub is to be refurbished after coming under new management. The Trinity on James Street West will close this Sunday for just over a month while the £185,000 upgrade takes place. Owner Star Pubs & Bars, part of the Heineken UK group, said The Trinity, which has been open...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Industry calls for pause of R&D reforms The House of Lords has expressed concern over some new measures. Click here to find out more UK sets out plans to regulate cryptocurrency HMRC aims to provide clarity for businesses and...
Former Bath and England rugby player John Hall has joined city-based property company Rengen as strategic investment advisor to assist with its continued growth. John, pictured, who won 21 caps with England between 1984 and 1994, is an experienced business leader having run his own sports consultancy and more recently acted as consultant to...
Cohabitation is the fastest-growing family type in the UK. However, many couples do not realise that if they split up there is not an automatic right to financial support. Here I answer some of the most common questions relating to cohabitation agreements. What is a cohabitation agreement? If you and your partner are planning...
Renewable electricity provider Good Energy has launched a new scheme for its customers on Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) which could earn them more from the power they generate. The Chippenham-headquartered group, the UK’s largest voluntary FiT administrator with more than 180,000 generation customers, piloted the new FiT smart export service in December, with plans to...
Bath businesses can benefit from free soft skills training following new research showing their importance in the modern workplace. Business West, the regional business group that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has worked with the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) to launch a new soft skills certificate with modules including digital skills for...
A new associate director and senior surveyor have been appointed to global real estate advisor CBRE’s South West property management team along with a new graduate trainee. Matthew Maxwell joins as associate director after 15 years with property management and building consultancy Workman in Bristol, while Angus McPhail arrives as a senior surveyor having previously...
Monday February 13 Nothing listed Tuesday February 14 Finals: Coca-Cola HBC, Plus500, Carr’s Group Q1 result: TUI Economic announcements: Claimant count rate, Unemployment rate Wednesday February 15 Final: Barclays Interims: Dunelm, Hargreaves Lansdown, Pan African Resources Economic announcements: Producer price index, Consumer price index, Retail price index Thursday February 16 Finals: HarbourVest Global Private Equity, Moneysupermarket.com Group, Relx, Centrica, Riverstone Credit Opportunities...
Bath has the potential to boost its economy by being a ‘fun’ city with a strong emphasis on wellbeing and health built on its spa heritage, the launch of its first wellness festival heard. It could take lessons from places as diverse as Iceland, with its tradition for thermal bathing, and Singapore’s emphasis on trees...
A Bath firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed has secured more than £3m to take its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years to decompose. The seed round, led by Bristol-based specialist...
