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Help us tackle gull menace, council tells Bath businesses

June 19, 2013
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Help us tackle gull menace, council tells Bath businesses

Businesses are being urged to do their bit to help combat Bath’s urban gull problem. Bath & North East Somerset Council has reaffirmed the measures it is taking to deal with the issue – including deterring the birds by making building smell as if they are on fire. Businesses can help by only putting...

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Bath’s ‘feastival’ puts it at the top table for UK food and drink

June 19, 2013
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Bath’s ‘feastival’ puts it at the top table for UK food and drink

The table is being set to welcome some of the country’s top chefs to Bath this autumn for a month-long food festival. The Great Bath Feast in October will put Bath firmly on the UK’s culinary map with a celebrity line up that reads like a who’s who of gastronomy. Events during the festival...

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Gallery opens in Bath with pledge to showcase city’s artistic talent

June 19, 2013
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Gallery opens in Bath with pledge to showcase city’s artistic talent

Lane House Arts has opened its first permanent gallery in Bath, with a commitment to encourage and support local artistic endeavour. The gallery, in Nelson Place East at the top of Walcot Street, specialises in contemporary art, ceramics, sculpture and prints selected by director Jenny Pollitt for their quality and originality. Lane House Arts...

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£2.5m R&D project funded by University of Bath and Wessex Water

June 19, 2013
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£2.5m R&D project funded by University of Bath and Wessex Water

Wessex Water and the University of Bath have teamed up in a new research and development collaboration worth more than £2.5m. The link up will fund research into five areas such as sustainable water and sewage treatment, keeping bills affordable and reducing carbon footprint – all of which will be explored by a multi-disciplinary...

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Changes in legal market put 28% of West law firms on danger list

June 19, 2013
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More than a quarter of West law firms are at risk of failure in the next 12 months, according to an alarming new report. But the research by R3, the insolvency trade body, shows that the West’s expected failure rate of 28% over the next year is lower than the national average of 31%....

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Airbus draws first blood in fight for sales at Paris Air Show

June 18, 2013
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Airbus draws first blood in fight for sales at Paris Air Show

The world’s biggest air industry get-together – the bi-annual Paris Air Show – has got underway with Airbus landing the first blows in the time-honoured dog fight for aircraft sales. But as the week-long show progresses it could be Boeing, European-owned Airbus’s US rival, that emerges triumphant in the battle for orders, analysts believe....

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New account wins spark record financial results for Bath’s The Agency

June 18, 2013
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New account wins spark record financial results for Bath’s The Agency

Bath-based creative firm The Agency has completed a 12-month period of unprecedented growth, with its latest set of filed accounts showing turnover rose by 30% and gross profit by 36% in the period ending January 2013. Since then The Agency has continued its rapid expansion with record-breaking first quarter results, and three further account...

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Pioneering Bath commercial law firm Rubric recruits legal high-flyer

June 17, 2013
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Pioneering Bath commercial law firm Rubric recruits legal high-flyer

Bath commercial solicitors’ chambers Rubric has taken on commercial lawyer Candace Kendall. Candace, pictured, brings heavyweight commercial expertise and substantial experience to the fast-growing firm having advised a wide range of commercial clients. She worked at City firms DJ Freeman and DLA before spending 14 years in senior in-house counsel roles at international financial...

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Global writing talent heads to Bath for major literature festival

June 17, 2013
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Global writing talent heads to Bath for major literature festival

Businesses are being invited to support a festival that will bring an impressive array of international writing talent to Bath and Bristol later this month.  A dozen of the best writers and performance poets from across the African Diaspora will take part in the Yardstick Festival from June 27 to 30. Prestigious authors at the...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

June 17, 2013
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Monday June 17 INTERIMS Sorbic International FINALS Majestic Wine AGMS African Mining & Exploration, Condor Gold, CPP Group, Energetix Group, Mission Marketing Group, Networkers International, Oxus Gold, Reach4Entertainment Enterprises TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS SThree Q1 OSJC Center for Cargo Container Traffic Transcontainer GDR (Reg S) Tuesday June 18 INTERIMS Crest Nicholson Holdings, One Media IP Group...

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