HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) introduced the Let Property Campaign over three years ago. At that time, it was expected to last 18 months. However, no end date has been set, writes Pearson May partner Nick Oliver. Campaigns such as the Let Property Campaign generate revenue quickly and ensure future tax for HMRC...
Specialist learning and development agency RTS Group has helped more than 170 volunteers get to know the vehicles they will use to drive athletes around at the IAAF World Championships in London. Japanese car giant Toyota, which has supplied the cars for the Championships, called in the firm, based at Notton, near Chippenham, to...
Facilities management firm Almeda has appointed four new members of staff as it gears up for a record 2017. Lyndsay Scriven and Matt Coombs have joined the Keynsham-based firm as junior facilities engineers, delivering hard services of mechanical and engineering maintenance to sites across the South West, while James Wilcox arrives as resident handyman...
Future, the Bath-based media group, has completed its £32m acquisition of rival Centaur Media’s home interest division in a move that brings three key brands to its portfolio – Homebuilding & Renovating, Period Living and Real Homes. The division’s magazines have a circulation of more than 870,000, although around half of its revenue comes...
South West accountancy firm Old Mill has been praised for its “strong client-centric culture and positive ethos” as it gained a top industry standard for the third year in a row. The firm, with offices in Melksham, Wells, Exeter and Yeovil, has completed the certification programme for BS 8577 – the only best-practice standard...
Firms should urgently review their human resources processes in light of last week’s Supreme Court decision on employment tribunal charges, according to regional law firm Mogers Drewett. Emily Eccles, pictured, an associate solicitor in its Bath office, said the judgment endorsing the fundamental importance of access to justice would be better news for employees...
Up to 3,000 people across the West of England will get help to increase their skills and opportunities as a result of £3.9m government devolution funding. The investment, from the Department of Work and Pensions, will pay for a two-and-a-half-year Innovation Pilot starting next January which aims to support tenants in social housing into...
The former fire station in Keynsham has been sold for redevelopment at more than twice the asking price – an indication, according to agents Alder King, of the strength of the market and lack of freehold properties. Alder King said it was “inundated” with potential buyers after it put the disused building and yard,...
An internationally-renowned vocal jazz group from Oxford University is heading to this month’s Edinburgh Fringe festival, thanks to the support of Bath online publisher SelectScience. The Corston-based firm, which works with scientists across the world, stepped in with a donation to the tune of £1,000 to help The Oxford Gargoyles, pictured, return for their...
Legal costs specialist Burcher Jennings has increased its footprint in the South West with the opening of an office in Bath. The base in Northumberland Buildings will enable law firms in the city and along the M4 Corridor to access the firm’s costs, pricing and funding expertise. It will be led by practice manager...
