Shares in Bath-based specialist media group Future soared by nearly 16% this morning after it revealed a 107% increase in pre-tax profits on the back of a strong performance in the US and a string of takeovers. It also forecast further solid growth next year as its reaps the rewards of these deals. ...
Renewable power supplier Good Energy is to put all its wind and solar farms up for sale as it prepares to switch from being a utility to providing energy and electric vehicles services. The Chippenham-headquartered firm, which has around 250,000 domestic and business customers, plans to use some of the proceeds to invest...
Some of Bath’s most historic buildings are to get fresh investment to attract more visitors under a government heritage scheme. Bath Preservation Trust, which operates four visitor attractions including No.1 Royal Crescent, pictured, has received just under £445,000 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage to help it face the ongoing challenges...
Bath chartered financial planning firm Unividual has launched a wellbeing programme to help combat the lasting effects of Covid-19 on the health of its employees. Unividual, which also has an office in London, said it had listened to feedback from staff over the impact Covid-19 had on their health. As a result it...
A scheme set up to bridge the digital divide by getting laptops to schools, charities and individuals who do not have access to technology has celebrated sending out 1,000 devices. Wiltshire Digital Drive was born from the success of a laptop recycling project started by Westbury-based Priority IT during lockdown. The scheme recycled...
Bath landscape architecture practice Grant Associates is to help turn the Tower of London’s moat into a vibrant sea of more than 20m flowers to help celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year. The ‘Superbloom’ project, one of scores across the country to mark 70 years since the Queen came to the throne, will transform the moat...
