More than £100m is to be spent on ambitious plans that use the West of England’s creativity and diversity to protect and secure jobs while building back greener and creating opportunities for all residents. The plan has been drawn up by the region’s Recovery Taskforce, which brings together businesses, universities and the West of...
A Bath pub has reopened following a £500,000 refurbishment designed with social distancing in mind. The Moorfields, pictured, in Oldfield Park was taken over by The Bath Pub Company in March just as the country went into lockdown. The re-opening comes as many pubs in Bath continue to struggle as social distancing measures and...
Independent menswear retailer Suave Owl has opened its first Bath store, relocating to the city from Keynsham. The firm has used a £40,000 funding package from NatWest, alongside personal investment, to lease the Grade-II listed unit on Milsom Street – which is more than 10 times the size of its former Keynsham shop –...
Eight of Bath’s cultural venues have received vital funding under a £1.57bn government scheme to help them survive the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure their future. The diverse list – which spans music, visual art, theatre, comedy and literature – ranges from The Theatre Royal to Moles Club. They are among 1,385...
A scheme to connect Bath’s food and drink producers with Chinese consumers with an appetite for high-quality British produce has been launched by Business West. The Great British Food Programme, in which Business West is partnering with Regroup China, a digital marketing agency which specialises in driving Chinese cross-border eCommerce sales, will also allow...
Sports and classic cars will combine with street food in the latest event to be staged by the developers behind a major town centre regeneration scheme. Innox Mills, a 10-acre brownfield site in the centre of Trowbridge, has already been transformed into a street market and drive-in cinema ahead of 300 homes being built...
Bath’s iconic Roman Baths has attracted more than 100,000 visitors since reopening from lockdown at the beginning of July – an achievement described as “a milestone on the city’s road to recovery”. The Baths was among the first major UK attractions to re-admit the public following the closedown of the cultural sector in March as...
New support for firms forced to close by law because of coronavirus restrictions by Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. The scheme, under which the government will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff working for these firms, was announced on Friday. It begins...
More than 150 jobs are to be created by Future, the Bath-based media group, as it continues to sidestep the economic impact of Covid-19. The rapidly expanding group, which last week hit the takeover trail again in the US and has also launched a number of new titles, said the majority of the new...
Some of Bath’s top lawyers and the firms they work for have earning top billing in The Legal 500, the leading annual guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. While the directory’s South West section is dominated, as in previous years, by Bristol’s large national and international firms, a number of lawyers...
