If you’ve been anywhere near a school playground recently, you’ll have seen kids playing with what look like mini-propellers. Fidget spinners are the latest, greatest craze and are (a) entertaining and calming or (b) distracting and annoying, depending which side of the teacher’s desk you’re sitting. Plenty of press...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios, where scenes for Poldark, Broadchurch and Wolf Hall have been filmed recently, has a new, more unusual starring role – as the base for the latest reboot of cult game show The Crystal Maze. Devoted fans were delighted to see the return of the iconic...
UWE Bristol is to play the lead role in the first major research project into the UK’s booming feature documentary film industry. The research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will be led by Dr Steve Presence and Prof Andrew Spicer from the university’s Digital Cultures...
Bristol’s successful CARGO indie retail hub at Harbourside could be expanded again with the addition of eight more converted shipping containers. Developer Umberslade announced the plan just weeks after officially opening CARGO 2, the second phase of the scheme at its Wapping Wharf mixed-use neighbourhood that is now home...
The UK’s first chat-based virtual assistant that can organise the busiest of modern families has won the ‘best elevator pitch’ at incubator SETsquared’s annual Tech-Xpo. The annual event pitches start-ups and scale-ups based at SETsquared’s Bristol hub against each other in a fast-paced battle. Kairo was one of 11...
Targeted campaigns aimed at attracting UK and foreign-owned firms to the West of England helped create a record 1,600 jobs last year. The figures, released by inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB), were announced by recently elected Metro Mayor Tim Bowles. IBB said more than half of...
Portbury-based Plasterboard manufacturer Siniat has used humour in its latest marketing campaign to increase awareness of its product range among homeowners and builders. The firm, formerly Lafarge Plasterboard, called in Bath-based brand, creative and digital agency Mr B & Friends for what it admitted it knew was “tricky brief...
Businesses are being given the chance to shape to design of the University of Bristol’s new £300m campus next to Bristol Temple Meads station as part of a major consultation on the scheme. The university this week revealed its initial vision for the project – one of the city’s largest...
Firms across the South West have taken advantage of the slump in sterling to go on an exporting spree, with the value of goods from the region sold overseas soaring by 30%. New figures from HMRC, which collates information on exports, shows exports from South West-based companies hit £6.3bn in the first three months...
By Joanna Randall, founder and managing director of Bristol PR consultancy Purple Fish You know the phrase and doesn’t it ring true the morning after the night before? Thankfully we live in a democratic society, and despite criticisms of the current electoral system in the UK, the principles of...
Business organisations in Bristol and across the West of England today warned of damaging uncertainty following the shock General Election result and the impact of a hung Parliament on key issues for the city, particularly on the imminent Brexit negotiations. Business West, the region’s largest business group, said there would...
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park has paid tribute to Peter Sallis, the actor who provided the unmistakable voice of Wallace and who died earlier this week aged 96. Nick Park and Peter Sallis first worked together on Aardman Animation’s short A Grand Day Out in 1983. Bristol-based Nick...
Staff at communications agency McCann’s Bristol offices have become the first in a regional agency to work on a major election campaign. A volunteer team from the office teamed up with colleagues from McCann in Birmingham to create the poster campaign for the Liberal Democrats. The series of McCann executions used...
