Award-winning journalist Felicity Green OBE, who first championed the Laura Ashley look more than 40 years ago, is to officially open the first major retrospective of the designer at Bath’s Fashion Museum. Ms Green, the Daily Mirror’s fashion editor as well as associate in 1970, described the Laura Ashley style as ‘soft-core femininity’ and ‘Victorian-type...
Seven Bath area charities and community groups are today sharing £5,500 from Bath Building Society’s annual charity awards scheme. A further three have have received pairs of Bath Building Society hot-air balloon tickets to use to raise funds. The awards, now in their seventh year, were established to support as many local initiatives as...
Ambitious plans aimed at safeguarding equestrian charity and visitor attraction HorseWorld have been drawn up by Bath architecture practice Stubbs Rich. The scheme would allow HorseWorld, the UK’s leading horse charity, to sell off part of its site, including its out-dated visitor centre, for housing – bringing in much-needed funds to secure its future...
The region’s economy has made further progress, but that there are still some risks at home and abroad that could derail the recovery, according to the latest Business West Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) released today. This survey, made up of responses from more than 400 businesses across the West, shows that most key indicators...
Business West’s Quarterly Economic Survey for the second quarter of this year suggests that the economy will continue to strengthen gradually over the next year, with growth slowly improving. Business confidence remains positive with 73% of respondents confident about their business prospects. Figures for exporting show a dramatic improvement on the first quarter with...
Business links between the West and the German city of Hamburg are taking off following the launch of direct flights from Bristol Airport. So what can the business traveller do between meetings or to fill a few hours before flying home? Bath Business News travel editor ANNE GORRINGE went to find out . ....
Bristol Airport had its busiest ever June last month with more than 625,000 passengers travelling through the terminal. The figure is 15,000 higher than the previous record set in 2008 and represents a 3.4% increase on the same month last year. This was despite the 2012 figure being boosted by a late Whitsun bank...
A lack of funding is holding back West firms as they struggle to overcome tough market conditions, according to a new study. Improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is is high on the Government’s agenda as it tries to stimulate economic recovery. But according to research carried out for Bibby...
We thought BrandSoup was alone in having opinions about the advisability or otherwise of government agencies getting “creative” with logos (see our recent blog – Bonfire of the Quango Logos). But following revelations of the US NSA’s acquisitive attitude to everyone’s emails and Facebook postings, this thorny topic is now global headline news. The...
Somerset-based Centaur Veterinary Services missed out on landing the region’s most coveted business accolade at an awards ceremony that resulted in Cornish firms winning the double. The Castle Cary veterinary products distributor was up against five other expanding firms in the prestigious West of England Business of the Year Awards, sponsored by accountants PwC....
