From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The owners of land at Ashton Vale where Bristol City want to build their new stadium have described the delay to a public inquiry into the town green application as “ludicrous”. Vence LLP said they backed mayor George Ferguson and cabinet member for culture Simon...
Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – the key part of the city’s economic growth over the next 25 years – plays host to an unusual live art event this evening when 30 local artists will be set a unique challenge. The writers, musicians, visual artists, designers and photographers will...
Businesses that go the extra mile to support the arts in the South West are being recognised today at a reception staged by Arts & Business (A&B), the organisation that brings together the cultural and corporate worlds. The Business Cultural Champions programme – a sister initiative of A&B’s successful Cultural Champions...
Millions of passengers going through Bristol Airport are to get a larger-than-life view of some of the individuals who are helping to make Airbus’s Filton plant a world centre for aerospace engineering. A 43-metre long poster stretching the length of the corridor leading to the departure gates features 25...
Recently-elected Bristol Mayor George Ferguson made the case for further devolved powers to the city when he held talks with ministers in Westminster yesterday – his first meeting with Government since his election nearly two weeks ago. In a series of meetings the Mayor met the financial secretary to...
Property agents CBRE Bristol has promoted associate director Guy Mansfield to head its growing residential property services team in the South West and South Wales. Previously focusing on agency and development within the office and industrial sector since joining CBRE in 2004, Guy, pictured, will now lead a range...
Chancellor George Osborne needs to bring in measures to boost housebuilding, halt spiralling transport costs and simplify taxes for small firms if he wants the region’s businesses to help deliver the economic recovery. The plea has come from tax and business experts at Bishop Fleming, the South West accountancy...
Bristol-based builders’ merchant group Burdens has gone into administration less than a month after selling off nearly half its branches to a rival. Administrators from Duff & Phelps, who were appointed last Friday to the Emersons Green-based group, are now selling off the remaining branches while continuing to run...
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO’s Bristol office has raised £10,250 for local charity Penny Brohn Cancer Care – surpassing its 2012 target of £10,000. The money will fund visits by 300 people with cancer to the charity’s new weekly treatment support clinic, which helps those preparing for, undergoing...
Serviced office firm Citibase is offering free space for a year to young entrepreneurs at its three Bristol centres to help them set up in business. The Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) initiative, launched across all 36 UK Citibase sites, aims to support the next generation of business owners by...
West firms should look beyond the much talked about BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) when developing their export plans by also considering the rapidly -growing economies of the Middle East and North Africa. The message comes from HSBC following its latest Global Connections Trade Forecast research which...
New rules affecting expatriate workers will come under the spotlight at a seminar in Bristol next week staged by accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton. The breakfast event on December 6 will also act as the regional launch of the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) the international organisation that...
Bristol law firm TLT has advised management at Rileys, Britain’s biggest chain of snooker and pool clubs, on the sale of the business out of administration to a group of private investors. The move saves more than 625 out of around 760 jobs and means that 78 of the...
