Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin.
This week Christina Robino, co-owner of Bristol communications agency Bud UK, answers our 10 questions. 
What was the LAST:
Film you watched? The Imitation Game
Book you read? A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
Music you bought/downloaded? John Mclaughlin To The One
Concert or play you went to? Pink Mist at Bristol Old Vic
Sporting event you attended? Climbing in Pembrokeshire
Holiday you went on? Pembrokeshire
Restaurant you ate in? Bristol’s Mercure Holland House Hotel on its re-launch night
Thing that annoyed you? Being pushed out of the way and into the road by a pavement cyclist
Thing that made you laugh out loud? My granddaughter telling me she was sick with an’ Itis’ (tonsillitis)
Piece of good advice you were given? Always check the brake cables on your bike, don’t stand on the rope when preparing for a climb, and savour each moment of the day.
Christina Robino, pictured above with Bud UK co-owner Nigel Locker, arrived in Bristol in the 1960s via Canada and Manchester and has been promoting business and community ever since. Christina has directed appeals and media campaigns for Bristol Cancer Help Centre (now Penny Brohn Cancer Care), the Rainbow Centre, the Southmead Project and many grass roots local organisations. She is co-owner of Bud UK, a full service communications agency, and a director of BCfm Community Radio. Her work and that of Bud in the city in bringing business and community together is well documented and in 2006 she was awarded the Sieff Award by Business in the Community for her ongoing commitment to the city’s charities. Christina and Nigel are also working with doctors across the globe on new forms of cancer testing and diagnosis and are the PR company behind the launch of many local restaurants.
