Bath law firm Stone King has set up a specialist health and safety team to help local businesses comply with fast-changing workplace legislation. To mark the launch the firm is holding a special workshop on May 22 which will offer essential legal advice on this vital area of law. All businesses are welcome to...
Bath Rugby hosts a family festival at The Rec this Saturday ahead of its last game of the Aviva Premiership season. While the game against Wasps, which kicks off at 2.15pm, is sold out, entry to the family festival is free and open to all, whether they have tickets for the match or not....
Work expert Acas has today launched its first guide tackling the last taboo in business – mental illness at work. It is a fast-growing problem, particularly with workers becoming increasingly concerned about their futures in the economic downturn, and costs employers in the South West an estimated £2.5bn a year in lost production and...
Protestors gathered last night to demonstrate against the closure of Bath and Bristol listings magazine Venue and swingeing job cuts at its sister publication Bristol Evening Post. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and supporters were outside the Galleries shopping centre in central Bristol where a low-key exhibition is taking place marking...
A rare glimpse of economic growth this summer has been signalled by a leap in the region’s businesses’ output expectations, according to the latest business trends report by accountants and business advisors BDO. But the recovery will still be long and slow. The firm’s Output Index, which points to business conditions three months ahead,...
Higher food prices pushed up inflation in March to 3.5% from 3.4% the previous month, according to figures today from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It said the price of fruit, bread, cereals and meat had increased slightly while this time last year they were falling, triggering the slight rise in annual inflation....
Venue, the long-running listings magazine for Bristol and Bath is to be axed – just over a year after its owner, London-based newspaper group Northcliffe, claimed to have ‘saved’ it. The magazine, first published in 1982, is to become a ‘digital-only’ product. Hundreds of readers protested in February last year when Northcliffe, which also...
Most medium-sized West technology companies have no plans to invest in new overseas markets over the next year, despite major opportunities in the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies. New research from accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton shows domestic investment continues to be the number one priority for ICT businesses with...
The Roman Baths have been given the Royal Mail seal of approval as the heritage attraction features in a new collection of postage stamps. Bath is the only World Heritage Site to be featured in the second part of the Royal Mail’s A-Z of Great Britain stamp set; with a breath-taking image of early...
Net lending to businesses across the South West by its wholesale banking and markets division rose 18% last year, Lloyds Bank has said. Clive Hetherington, the bank’s area director, said the figure was encouraging news for the region’s larger firms. “After another challenging year, this result is a clear indication that South West businesses...
