Highly experienced tax specialist Chris Watts has appointed as an associate director in regional accountancy firm Old Mill’s capital tax advisory team. A qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Chris, pictured, has 26 years’ experience in the industry, with particular expertise in...
Law firm Thrings has appointed four new partners and promoted five other lawyers as it continues its commitment to nurturing talent across the firm. Three senior associates are among those promoted to partner – Kathryn Bew and Charlotte Dooling, who are both based in its Bath office and work in the family and real estate teamsrespectively,...
Monday September 26 Final: Finsbury Food Group Interims: Likewise Group, CPP Group, Devolver Digital, Immotion Group, Lunglife, Concurrent Technologies, Microlise Group, Next Fifteen Communications, Xpediator, Spaceandpeople Tuesday September 27 Final: Transense Technologies Interims: Tinybuild, The Mission Group, Personal Group Holdings, Diaceutics, Animalcare Group, Mortgage Advice Bureau, Nahl Group, Digitalbox, ECSC Group, Ergomed, Barr (A.G.), Yu Group, Serica Energy,...
Business groups covering Bath and the West of England this afternoon largely approved of many of the measures in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget – but the political reaction was less favourable. Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, said the announcements would go some way to easing...
Areas in the West of England could become investment zones aimed at driving economic growth and unlocking land for housing under a scheme announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini-Budget. Businesses in the zones would benefit from lowering taxes and ‘liberalised’ planning frameworks, according to the Treasury. Mr Kwarteng, pictured, said firms in...
The £9.3m restoration of Bath’s Cleveland Pools, the oldest surviving public lido in the UK, has been completed following a 15-month project that included bringing all machinery, building materials and equipment to the site by barge. The meticulous work on the 207-year-old Georgian site was overseen by main contractor Swindon-headquartered Beard Construction, lead designers...
Goughs Solicitors’ series of free online seminars for business owners continues next week with a session on re-organising a business and running a risk-free redundancy process. The monthly Wednesday Wisdom Webinars, which give up-to-date, relevant and pragmatic employment advice, are led by the firm’s head of employment Rebecca Dennis, pictured. They allow employers the opportunity to tune in to a...
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his mini-Budget in the House of Commons this morning against a backdrop of high inflation, soaring energy bills and an economy which, according to the Bank of England, could already be in recession. Key points announced by Mr Kwarteng, pictured, were: Chancellor says a new approach for a new era is required...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. £1.1bn of Covid-19 loans flagged as fraud The government has published a bounce-back loan scheme performance update. Click here for more information Advisory fuel rates update There has been an increase in advisory fuel rates this month....
Bath’s vibrant food and drink sector will be championed this weekend as the Great Bath Feast returns to the city. The free festival, which celebrates the best food and drink from Bath and across the wider region, takes place in the Milsom Quarter from today until Sunday. Staged in association with acclaimed Bath baking...
