Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. Government urged to boost economic growth The CBI says the UK will lose 10 years of growth if no action is taken. Click here to read more Upturn in retail sales from Black Friday Spending data shows...
Small firms or freelancers working on projects that use technology in innovative and creative ways are being encouraged to apply for funding of up to £5,000 under a new scheme. Launched by The Studio at Palace Yard Mews, Bath Spa University’s city-centre research and innovation hub, The Studio Innovation Fund aims to support freelancers,...
Bath’s Christmas Market, which returned this year for the first time since 2019, has been described as a “resounding success” by business and tourism chiefs, while Google has revealed it was the second most searched for festive market in the UK. Visitor numbers were up on some days compared to three years ago, while...
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...
