The LAST WORD: Hannah Francis, family solicitor, Goughs

June 11, 2024
The LAST WORD: Hannah Francis, family solicitor, Goughs

Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Goughs family solicitor Hannah Francis answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST:   Film you watched: Leave the World Behind with Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali. A dystopian but believable thriller which really made me think...

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Event: Goughs free divorce and family law clinic

June 11, 2024
Event: Goughs free divorce and family law clinic

Law firm Goughs Solicitors is offering the chance to gain invaluable insights from its experienced family law experts at a special event next week. Taking place between 8am and 6pm at Hotel Indigo Bath, South Parade, the free divorce and family law clinic is aimed at anyone going through a relationship breakdown or unsure...

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City centre benches become seats of learning under Bath BID’s urban wildlife appreciation scheme

June 10, 2024
City centre benches become seats of learning under Bath BID’s urban wildlife appreciation scheme

The Bath Business Improvement District (BID) has launched a scheme to celebrate the city’s wildlife by illustrating it on the recently restored public benches near the Abbey. The Biodiversity Bench Project includes 21 images of creatures ranging from butterflies and frogs to birds painted onto the seats in Kingston Parade, the square between Abbey...

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More funding for Bath-launched biotech firm using seaweed to turn the tide on plastic packaging

June 10, 2024
More funding for Bath-launched biotech firm using seaweed to turn the tide on plastic packaging

Kelpi, the Bath-founded biotech company developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed, has secured a £4.35m investment to take it to market. The funding round, which includes further finance from a group of West of England investors who previously backed the firm, will enable the firm to expand its operations, grow its team and...

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Regional building award goes to recently opened hub that takes recycling to a whole new level

June 10, 2024
Regional building award goes to recently opened hub that takes recycling to a whole new level

A state-of-the-art waste recycling centre has been named as one of the most impressive recent building projects in the South West in a prestigious building awards scheme. Bath & North East Council’s £41.8m Keynsham recycling hub, which was officially opened in February, is among the regional winners in the RICS (Royal Institution of chartered...

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Batteries that can harvest green electricity from the soil developed by University of Bath start-up

June 10, 2024
Batteries that can harvest green electricity from the soil developed by University of Bath start-up

A spin-out company from the University of Bath is looking to plug into a new form of sustainable power by creating a battery that recharges itself when placed in soil. Start-up Bactery has developed bacteria-powered batteries – or ‘Bacteries’ – which harvest green energy by taking advantage of natural processes that occur in soil-based microorganisms.  As...

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