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Webinar: Understanding the media with Bristol Business News and Distinctive Communications

March 18, 2024
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Webinar: Understanding the media with Bristol Business News and Distinctive Communications

Bristol Business News has teamed up with city-based specialist communications consultancy Distinctive Communications to discuss how to engage with journalists to promote your business at an event tomorrow. Hosted by Distinctive founder Ben Lowndes, the free webinar will hear from Bristol Business News editor Robert Buckland on why some stories get coverage and...

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More funding for Bristol firm plugging into the power of graphene to drive down EV battery costs

March 15, 2024
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More funding for Bristol firm plugging into the power of graphene to drive down EV battery costs

The Bristol company behind pioneering technology that aims to reduce electric vehicle (EV) battery charging times while also cutting manufacturing costs has received more funding to further develop the system. Anaphite’s latest £1.6m round, which has come from a range of backers and Innovate UK, follows an injection of...

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Bristol academics get millions in funding to lead research in areas such as AI, digital health and cyber

March 15, 2024
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Bristol academics get millions in funding to lead research in areas such as AI, digital health and cyber

Bristol’s status as a leading centre for cutting-edge academic research was boosted this week as it joined a new innovative digital health hub while also receiving £57m to train a new generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers. The University of Bristol and UWE Bristol have become part of the...

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Webinar: Understanding the media with Bristol Business News and Distinctive Communications

March 15, 2024
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Webinar: Understanding the media with Bristol Business News and Distinctive Communications

Bristol Business News has teamed up with city-based specialist communications consultancy Distinctive Communications to discuss how to engage with journalists to promote your business at an event next week. Hosted by Distinctive founder Ben Lowndes, the free webinar will hear from Bristol Business News editor Robert Buckland on why some...

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Pulling power of Bristol’s film and TV locations boosts city’s tourism sector’s post-Covid recovery

March 15, 2024
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Pulling power of Bristol’s film and TV locations boosts city’s tourism sector’s post-Covid recovery

Nearly a third of tourists visiting Bristol and the West of England have been influenced by seeing the region on screen in shows such as Doctor Who and Skins, according to new research. Visit West, the region’s destination marketing organisation, said 30% of visitors were attracted by films or...

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Another accolade for SETsquared as FT-backed report ranks it UK’s top start-up hub and third in Europe

March 14, 2024
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Another accolade for SETsquared as FT-backed report ranks it UK’s top start-up hub and third in Europe

The SETsquared Partnership, the pioneering tech incubator backed by the University of Bristol, has been named as the UK’s leading start-up hub and third best in Europe. No stranger to awards – it has been ranked best in the world by the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index three times...

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TLT strengthens its future energy team with project finance specialist appointment

March 13, 2024
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TLT strengthens its future energy team with project finance specialist appointment

Experienced project finance specialist Victoria Quek has joined Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT as a partner in its future energy team. Victoria, pictured, who focuses on the financing of renewable energy transition projects, previously worked at Eversheds Sutherland for more than 21 years, most recently as a legal director. ...

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Bristol Business Blog: Lucy Haynes, financial planning consultant, Albert Goodman. Celebrating International Women’s Day

March 8, 2024
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Bristol Business Blog: Lucy Haynes, financial planning consultant, Albert Goodman. Celebrating International Women’s Day

To mark International Women’s Day today, Lucy Haynes, a financial planning consultant at accountants Albert Goodman, talks about her experience at the firm. Tell us about the start of your career  I joined Albert Goodman Chartered Financial Planners as a secretary in 2015. Shortly after, I became an administrator...

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Spring Budget 2024: Personal finance experts’ reaction

March 7, 2024
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Spring Budget 2024: Personal finance experts’ reaction

The Budget contained a range of personal taxation, childcare and residential property measures. On child benefit, Tracey Watts, tax partner at Albert Goodman accountants, pictured, said while the immediate increase in the threshold from £50,000 to £60,000, over which child benefit claims are withdrawn, was welcomed, the proposed consultation...

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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol business reaction

March 6, 2024
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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol business reaction

Phil Smith, managing director of Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, said while the Budget offered a number of initiatives that were likely to benefit the region’s businesses it lacked any measure that would tackle big issues such as transport, housing and infrastructure. “The creative and...

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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol political reaction

March 6, 2024
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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol political reaction

West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, pictured, said “hard-pressed” West of England residents and businesses were still struggling with 70-year high levels of tax under the Conservatives, “despite today’s desperate attempts from the Chancellor to pretend otherwise”. The Labour leader of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA),...

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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol experts’ reaction

March 6, 2024
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Spring Budget 2024: Bristol experts’ reaction

Despite being pitched as a Budget for long-term growth, there was very little for business, according to Paul Falvey, partner at national accountants BDO in the South West. Paul, pictured, said the Chancellor was under pressure to deliver tax cuts and while this wasn’t forthcoming for businesses – with some...

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Spring Budget 2024: The key points . . .

March 6, 2024
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Spring Budget 2024: The key points . . .

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his Spring Budget. The main points were: The Chancellor said growth had been higher in the UK since 2010 than every other European economy. But future growth would not come from mass immigration. He promised a Budget for future growth. Inflation had been halved to...

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