The award-winning Green Park Brasserie in Bath is celebrating 20 years in business by launching its own wine range. The wines include a Monastrell Tinto (red), a Macabeo Blanco (white) and a Monastrell Rosada (rosé) and have been selected by Paul Scaife of Chalkstream Wines to compliment the flavour-filled menus for which the Brasserie...
Bath has been voted the best destination for health tourism by the UK’s older generation, beating Spain and Cyprus to win gold at the annual 50+ Awards. Bath Tourism Plus collected the award at a gala reception at London’s Olympia. The 50+ Awards, which are organised and presented by the 50+ Show and exhibition,...
Accountants Bishop Fleming held a party to welcome guests to their new office in Bath – Minerva House on Lower Bristol Road. The firm moved into the city earlier this year when it acquired part of rival Target based in the next door building and his since moved to 9,500 sq ft of office...
VIP guests enjoyed a look around Bath’s iconic Francis Hotel, which has reopened following a £6m refurbishment. The Queen Square hotel, now one of the UK’s best high-end hotels, is now a part of the 50-strong MGallery global collection of unique hotels – the group’s second in the UK and first outside London. Guests...
A top Government adviser is the latest senior Whitehall official to tour the Bristol & Bath Science Park. Professor John Perkins, chief scientific advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, joined 30 guests from the advanced manufacturing sector for a broad-ranging discussion over lunch at the park with the theme of encouraging...
A rare opportunity to buy a large office building with plenty of parking on Bath's outskirts has come about due to relocation by two major firms in the city. Lawrence House, a prominent 1970s building on Lower Bristol Road, has come on the market following accountants Bishop Fleming’s move next door to Minerva House...
Bath entrepreneurs Poppy and Mark Powell have launched their third specialist cafe in the city. Knickerbockerglory, at 15-16 Pulteney Bridge, offers an array of sweet treats from traditional British desserts such as Eton mess to banana splits and, of course, knickerbocker glories. Other favourites include giant waffles served with West Country ice cream and fresh...
UKTI, the Government’s export help and advice organisation, has appointed Antoaneta Becker as its new China trade adviser for the South West. Antoaneta, pictured below, who spent 20 years studying and working in mainland China, will bring a fresh perspective to the region’s long-standing trade relationship with one of the world’s biggest markets and...
Bath Ales, the independent brewer and pub operator, is to increase its brewing capacity by almost 40% following delivery of two new fermenting vessels. Each can produce around 30,000 extra pints of Bath Ales’ cask beers a year – taking overall output to just over 25,000 barrels. The investment is part of the continued...
1pm, the Bath-based specialist lender to small firms, today revealed a 116% increase in annual pre-tax profits as it continues to exploit the gap in the market caused by the high-street banks reining in their lending. Revenues at 1pm were up 21% to £2.31m in the year to May 31 with Pre-tax profits coming...
