Octopus Films, the Bath video production company, has partnered with the University of Bath for the second year running to make a hard-hitting documentary to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference. ActNowFilm2 – like last year’s ActNowFilm – pulls no punches in showing the rapid escalation of climate impacts on people and...
The roll-out of ultrafast full fibre networks in the area is continuing with community internet service provider (ISP) Lit Fibre the latest to promise further expansion. The firm is to launch its ultrafast full fibre network into Warminster early next year, providing the town with a faster, more reliable and affordable broadband service. Installation of...
An online marketplace that connects talented home-cooks with food lovers in their neighbourhoods has launched in Bath following successful trials in Bristol. Likened to the Etsy of home cooking, All About The Cooks empowers trained chefs and passionate cooks to share their authentic food with local people. Cooks taking part in a pilot scheme in...
Humanitarian charity People against Poverty has appointed a new CEO as it looks to grow its operations to help more people experiencing poverty in the UK and abroad. Belinda Wadsworth, pictured, brings extensive third sector expertise to the Wiltshire-based organisation gained through leadership roles in a variety of national and international charities over the past...
Plans to redevelop part of central Bath as a destination for fashion and culture, including providing a new home for the city’s world-leading Fashion Museum, have won approval from the public. An informal consultation on the Milsom Quarter Masterplan held from May to July found strong support for the scheme, particularly for new homes...
Bath’s hospitality and tourism venues are being urged to take part in the city’s first official wellbeing festival next February which will underpin its global reputation as a centre for wellness. ReBalance Bath will take place in venues across the city for three weeks between 7and 23 February and will include a number of...
Taste of Bath, the online store that connects those wanting to shop local with local food producers, has launched a major campaign to support its official charity partner Bath Foodbank by donating £1 for every hamper it sells. The firm’s biggest ever charity initiative, it is already making an enormous difference. In the first...
James Durie, an executive director of Business West – the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce – is to step down from his role after 21 years at the end of this year. James, pictured, who is also chief executive of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Initiative, is widely acknowledged as playing a significant role in the...
Truespeed, the Bath-based full fibre broadband provider, is to invest a further £22m in its network, extending it to new 12 areas in the West of England, including parts of Bath. The firm said the rollout was set to bring guaranteed speed, ultrafast and ultra-reliable broadband to a potential further 43,000 properties. Truespeed has...
Shares in Inspecs, the Bath-based spectacles designer and manufacturer, lost more than half their value in one day after it warned that sales would continue to be hit by the cost of living crisis into next year. The departure of Inspecs chairman, the former Tesco boss and City grandee Lord MacLaurin, on 1 December...
