Business innovation and creativity along with major regeneration schemes such as Bath Quays and the Milsom Quarter will help secure a strong future for Bath and North East Somerset, according to a new vision for the area. The new ‘place prospectus’ shows how better places and a carbon neutral economy can be created in...
Bath is the one of the world’s top destinations for a dirty weekend despite its genteel reputation, according to an international adult website. The city was judged as the UK’s second best place for an illicit break behind London and ranked 16th across the globe by Bedbible, which describes itself as the “go-to source...
An IT parts supplier has become the first – and so far only – firm in the UK to receive the highest possible certification for the way it securely handles and disposes of customer’s redundant data. Warminster-based Blackmore, one of more than 100 registered secure IT asset disposal companies in the UK, has been...
Bath digital marketing agency Fueld Media has been appointed by a Bristol-based hospital charity to help increase its presence on social media. Southmead Hospital Charity, the official charity of North Bristol NHS Trust, starts working with Fueld this month with a remit to increase its brand recognition and reach. Fueld’s team of experts will...
A portfolio manager from a major European asset management group has been appointed to the board of Bath-based advanced analytics firm Actual Experience less than a month after its founding chief executive quit with immediate effect. Harmesh Suniara, who works at Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe), has joined Actual Experience as a non-executive director....
The full speaker line-up has been announced for the biggest TEDxBath so far. Taking place in The Forum tomorrow, Saturday 15 October, the event is expected to attract up to 1,600 attendees to hear speakers ranging in age from 12 to 82 deliver changing perspectives through mind-opening talks. Organisers say the aim is to...
The University of Bath has powered up its research and innovation capability by becoming the first UK university to move all possible high performance computing workloads into the cloud. Named ‘Nimbus’, the switch to Microsoft Azure Cloud will rapidly speed up scientific discovery processes and allow researchers to carry out more advanced computationally intensive...
Conservative MPs are going to make life for Prime Minister Liz Truss as difficult as their Labour counterparts did for Jeremy Corbyn when he was their leader, political columnist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika has told the region’s business leaders. Speaking at the South West CBI’s annual dinner, she predicted the political waters would get...
Bath workplace design company Interaction has unveiled its latest cutting-edge project – a flexible office that promotes collaborative working at intellectual property law firm Withers & Rogers. The 4,866 sq ft workspace in Bristol’s Castlemead office complex has been designed around the firm’s new hybrid business model and features a mix of collaborative meeting...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has carried out a rebranding exercise in collaboration with Bath-based design agency Design for Digital. At the heart of the project is a new website for the firm - www.templebright.com – which includes two new short films aimed at clients and lawyers. Temple Bright was founded in Bristol in...
