Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed has started rolling out its ultrafast network in its home city for the first time after nearly seven years providing rural areas and market towns with full fibre connectivity. The firm, based on Lower Bristol Road, was launched in 2014 by three investors fed up with poor broadband in their homes...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to launch two more flights from Bristol Airport to Greek holiday hotspots from late May despite ongoing political wrangling over whether people should be able to book summer breaks. The announcement by the airline, the airport’s largest operator, that it is adding the islands of Mykonos and Santorini to its...
Bath businesses still have time to take part in a major exercise on the shape of the city’s transport system over the next decade. More than 400 individuals and businesses have already taken part in a six-week consultation period on Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Transport Delivery Action Plan. The plan aims to identify...
Bath accountants OCL and Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright have acted for the shareholders of healthcare project management and facilities support business Capitec on its sale to Imagile Professional Services Limited (IPSL). IPSL, established in 2005 and, like Capitec, based in Bristol, is a leading asset management consultancy providing professional services across a broad range of infrastructure sectors...
Bath media firms looking at ways of engaging with emerging tech can apply for funding under a scheme designed to explore future content creation and distribution. The Amplified Publishing Pathfinder project offers funding ranging from £5,000 each for six industry partners to £12,000 each for six fellowships to give organisations the time, space and...
A 250% increase in online sales last year has earned Bath craft brewery Electric Bear Brewing a coveted award based on votes by satisfied customers. The Brassmill Lane brewery, whose brands include Zorbing pale ale and Mixtape lager, collected the Feefo Gold Trusted after making and distributing 120,000 cans of beer during what has...
Bath’s pandemic-hit meetings and events industry is to get free access to a pioneering scheme that allows events staged in different cities to link up through live-streaming technology. Nationwide initiative Hybrid Event Solutions UK (HESUK) has been launched by the convention bureaus covering England’s main cities – including the recently-launched regional body that promotes...
Bath residents are being urged to show their love for the city’s independent businesses this Valentine's Day by spending locally. Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) – the organisation representing nearly 500 firms in the city centre – is encouraging people to support city businesses this Sunday by taking part in Love Local Day. Over...
A development of nine energy-efficient family homes which will help provide affordable housing have reached the ‘topping out’ stage with the installation of solar panels. St Joseph’s Court on Sladebrook Road, Southdown, is being built by Aequus, the Bath & North East Somerset Council’s construction and development company, which was set up to help...
The Institute of Directors in the South West has appointed experienced tech sector independent director James Savage and Steve Hill, the former managing director of defence contractor SEA, as ambassadors. James, pictured, who has spent 30-plus years in the sector, will be the IoD’s regional ambassador for high-tech industry and tech ventures, having been an independent director on the boards...
