As more than 9,000 runners prepare for Bristol’s Half Marathon this Sunday, high in the Italian Alps Travel Editor ANNE GORRINGE is hiking across a mountain pass to watch the start of the WORLD’s LONGEST ENDURANCE ULTRA-TRAIL…. Anyone about to take part in Bristol’s 23rd event should spare a thought for the 500 competitors currently making...
Freelancers are to get a chance to pitch their skills to some of Bath’s most exciting companies at an event later this month staged by Creative Bath. The companies will meet freelancers in 10-minute slots from 5pm onwards at the Freelancer Fair on September 26 at Jika Jika in Princes Buildings. Among the jobs...
Friska, the healthy fast-food restaurant set up by two University of Bath graduates, has been chosen as the caterer for the first phase of SPark, the Bristol and Bath Science Park now under construction. The firm, which specialises in healthy, tasty, locally-sourced food, will open in the park's 11,000 sq ft Forum building later this...
Simon Moore, one of the region’s leading bankers, has joined accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton as a senior consultant, one of two top-level appointments made by the firm as it embarks on a new phase of growth in the South West. Simon joins from Barclays Corporate where he was chairman and managing director...
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has again pegged interest rates at 0.5% – maintaining them at the same historic low rate since March 2009. Some economists predict the Bank may be forced to keep rates at this level until 2013 to avoid derailing any recovery in the economy. The Bank is...
An innovative application that will help medical practices save time and money on mail outs has been developed by Radstock-based print and post specialist CFH Docmail with EMIS, the UK’s leading supplier of clinical software and related services to GPs. Called EMIS Mail, it is an easy-to-use application that allows practices to create mail...
Securing a mortgage is not impossible if you look beyond the high street. That’s the message from Dick Jenkins, chief executive of the Bath Building Society which in recent months has increased its lending book and launched a series of new mortgage products designed to help new entrants get on the housing ladder. According...
Alliance Pharma, the Chippenham-based speciality pharmaceutical group, has expanded its portfolio by paying £2.4m to acquire the UK marketing rights to six products from Beacon Pharmaceuticals. In the year to April 30 the products had total sales of approximately £2m and gross margin of £900,000, mainly from severe acne treatment Rizuderm (isotretinoin) which fits...
South West manufacturers have achieved healthy growth figures despite the increasingly fragile nature of the wider economic recovery. The upbeat picture emerges from a major survey by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, and accountants BDO. It shows 45% of the region’s manufacturing firms taking part in the survey reporting higher output and 41% saying they achieved...
Would-be West of England music business entrepreneurs and musicians can find out how to break into the international music industry at a masterclass being held on Thursday. The event in Bristol is part of a roadshow staged by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the Government’s international trade arm, and supported by leading music industry...
