Bristol Zoo Gardens has appointed a new head of guest services. Chris Page will be responsible for overseeing admissions, guest experience, membership, the gift shop, the 12-acre grounds and the general presentation of the zoo. Chris, originally from Yorkshire, joins the zoo’s senior management group and has responsibility for around...
More than 1,100 letters backing Bristol Rovers' proposed £40m stadium at Frenchay have been received by South Gloucestershire Council. The 20,000-seater stadium, which would also include a club shop, conference and teaching space as well as a jogging track and gym, would be a joint venture with the University...
Bristol Water has no plans to restrict supplies to businesses in the city, even though the Environment Agency today declared a drought across the whole of the South West. However, the company said its reservoirs are only 80% full at a time when it would expect them to be 97%...
Barclays has appointed Steve Gamlin as a new relationship director for its corporate banking division in Bristol. Steve, 47, has spent the past eight years at Clydesdale Bank’s Bristol office where he was responsible for providing finance and invoice discounting solutions working with clients in the mid-larger corporate market...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol’s standing as a filmmaking hub has been further strengthened by the launch of a postgraduate degree to help budding wildlife film makers follow in the footsteps of Sir David Attenborough and the BBC’s city-based Natural History Unit. The MA in wildlife film-making has been...
Advanced manufacturer Hexcel, a pioneer in developing adhesives and composite materials for the aerospace and defence industries, has become the latest UK firm to join Bristol’s National Composites Centre (NCC). The Cambridge-based firm joins innovative West companies such as Airbus, GKN Aerospace, Rolls-Royce and AgustaWestland in supporting the NCC...
The Bristol office of international architects Aedas has drawn up plansto revitalise Keynsham's town centre and an application has been submitted to Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) Council following a year of consultations with the local community. The £34m project to redevelop the existing Town Hall site includes a...
Aldermore, the bank set up two years ago by a group of investment funds, is to open an invoice finance office in Bristol as part of its ambitious expansion plans. The base, which will provide a range of financial services to small and medium-sized businesses across the South West,...
Interest rates have been pegged at 0.5% by the Bank of England for another month. The Bank also said there would be no change to its quantitative easing (QE) programme which aims to get money into the economy. Rates have been at 0.5% since March 2009 as the long...
Jelf, the independent consultancy which provides a broad range of insurance, financial services and employee benefits to corporates and individuals, says it "has enjoyed a positive start to the year" and is trading in line with expectations. The Yate-based consultancy has more than 30 branches throughout England and South Wales, mainly...
Some of Britain’s top-rated Scrabble players will be minding their Ps and Qs at the Doubletree by Hilton Cadbury House hotel in Congresbury for a four-day contest starting on Good Friday. It is the first time the venue has been asked to host the prestigious 2012 Easter Scrabble Weekend....
Work is set to start this month on the first commercial offices to be built on the £400m Locking Parklands scheme – the site of the former RAF Locking just outside Weston-super-Mare. The 6,000 sq ft of office space, due for completion this autumn, will comprise three individual units and...
The University of Bristol has been made an Academic Centre for Excellence in Cyber Security Research. It is one of eight universities to be recruited by intelligence agency GCHQ to help improve government and industry cyber security. The university will receive a £50,000 capital investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
