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Airport lands car park award as passengers benefit from £0.5m improvements

August 6, 2012
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Airport lands car park award as passengers benefit from £0.5m improvements

Bristol Airport has won an award from web portal Essential Travel for its Silver Zone car park – the first on-site parking space to receive the monthly accolade. The car park award, presented every month since May 2011, is based on customer reviews of their own experiences. Thousands of responses were received by Essential...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

August 6, 2012
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Monday August 06 INTERIMS Catlin Group Ltd., Morgan Sindall Group, PostNL NV, Puricore, Share Plc, Telecity Group Q2 PostNL NV AGMS Geopark Holdings Ltd., Speymill UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS New Car Registrations (09:30) Tuesday August 07 INTERIMS BBA Aviation, Clarke (T.), Corio NV, Greggs, InterContinental Hotels Group, Meggitt, Mondi, Premier Foods, Rio Tinto, Xstrata, Zotefoams...

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Bath’s GW Railway heritage fast-tracked to protected status

August 1, 2012
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Brunel’s iron footbridge in Bath’s Sydney Gardens, Box Tunnel near Corsham and the stone Pixash Lane Bridge near Saltford, are among more than 40 historic railway buildings and structures on the Great Western main line to be safeguarded by the Government. The Sydney Gardens footbridge has been upgraded to Grade II*, the second-highest level...

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Good causes benefit from Bath Building Society’s £5,000 charitable fund

August 1, 2012
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Good causes benefit from Bath Building Society’s £5,000 charitable fund

Seven Bath charities and community groups are sharing £5,000 from Bath Building Society’s annual charity awards scheme with a further four receiving hot-air balloon tickets which can be used to raise funds. The winning good causes were chosen from a record number of 53 applicants by a panel of judges. The successful groups received...

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Bath Ales brews exclusive Balloon Fiesta beer – with a head for heights

August 1, 2012
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Bath Ales brews exclusive Balloon Fiesta beer – with a head for heights

Independent brewer Bath Ales has launched its latest special beer – the aptly-named Night Glow – which celebrates its involvement in the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. The brewery, based between Bath and Bristol at Warmley, is sponsoring the Thursday Night Glow, the traditional curtain-raiser for the ever-popular Fiesta, which this year takes place on...

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Further fall in house prices as recession hits home, Nationwide survey reveals

August 1, 2012
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House prices fell at their fastest annual rate for nearly three years last month, the latest survey from Nationwide building society showed this morning. Prices have now declined in four of the past five months, the Swindon-based lender said. The fall of 0.7% in July means prices are now 2.6% lower than they were...

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Tablets bring some relief to struggling Future as title sales for iPads soar

July 31, 2012
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Digital revenue has shot up by 30% at Future, the Bath-based magazine and digital publishers, as consumers increasingly used their iPads and other tablets to read its products. The group said today it sold more than 1.7m copies of its titles through Apple’s Newsstand since its launch last October. However, the third-quarter rise in...

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Global reach helps Bath group Rotork engineer record results

July 31, 2012
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Global reach helps Bath group Rotork engineer record results

Specialist Bath engineering group Rotork today defied the global gloom by unveiling a sparkling set of financial results with each of its divisions achieving record order intake, revenue and profit. The figures for the half-year to June 30 show Rotork’s order book was 13% higher than last December at £177.7m. Order intake was up...

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Accountants Old Mill recruit first tax specialist for Melksham office

July 30, 2012
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Accountants Old Mill recruit first tax specialist for Melksham office

Chartered tax adviser Laura MacDonald has joined accountants Old Mill’s Melksham office as assistant tax manager. The 30-year-old is the first dedicated tax specialist at the Wiltshire office and will work with the rest of the firm’s tax specialists from its four other offices under new head of tax Victoria Studley. Laura, pictured, is...

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Green electricity supplier Good Energy begins trading on AIM

July 30, 2012
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Good Energy, the Chippenham-based green electricity supplier, has listed its shares on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market following eight years on the lightly-regulated PLUS market. The firm, the UK’s leading 100% renewable electricity supplier, said trading in its shares and interest from institutional shareholders had been low on PLUS and directors now believe...

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