An office block in central Bristol has been named as one of the world’s healthiest workplaces in an international awards scheme that showcases the role working environments play in employee wellbeing. The Paragon, pictured, a 75,000 sq ft, six-storey building on the corner of Victoria Street and Counterslip, is...
Bristol’s property industry is being urged to make unoccupied or vacant buildings and car parks available for use by the NHS as it leads the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. The highest demand is for car parking spaces, overnight beds and storage facilities within a 15-minute walk of an NHS...
Food poverty charity FareShare South West is to receive a £5,000 donation from global real estate advisory firm Colliers International – the amount its Bristol office had expected to raise from its annual TRYathlon, which has been cancelled. The office has staged the popular event since 2013 – with...
The corporate team in the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke has advised long-standing client and Dragons’ Den panellist Peter Jones CBE on his latest investments. Serial entrepreneur Mr Jones, pictured, has joined forces with investment group BGF to support two high-growth tech businesses with plans for...
National business organisations have welcomed the government’s drastic measures putting the country into virtual lockdown in a bid to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus. The CBI said the action presented “great challenges” while the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said it made it even more vital that support...
Two paralegals at the Bristol law firm Meade King are celebrating becoming qualified solicitors. Portia Garrett-Swift is now a solicitor in the firm’s company and commercial team while colleague Katie Lane has begun work as a solicitor in its commercial property department. Portia, pictured right, who has a law...
The South West TUC and Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, have jointly welcomed the latest government measures to tackle the economic and jobs crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. But in a joint statement they slammed the regional response as “too slow . . . fragmented and...
Monday March 23 Finals: Dunedin Entertainment, MD Medical, Medica Group, Pennant International, Acron Regs, Seplat Petroleum Development Interims: Gfinity, Orchard Funding Tuesday March 24 Finals: 888 Holdings, Alliance Pharma, Barr (AG), Cambridge Cognition, Eve Sleep, Fevertree Drinks, Kingfisher, Learning Technologies Group, Mears, Pelatro, Personal Group, S & U, STM...
EasyJet, the largest operator at Bristol Airport, today said it will ground the majority of its aircraft fleet from Tuesday. It will conclude rescue flights to repatriate customers by Monday and will, at most, continue to run “a minimal schedule” of essential, mainly domestic routes. The airline urged customers...
