Low-cost airline easyJet is to launch two new domestic flights from Bristol Airport next month as more holidaymakers opt for staycations this summer to avoid quarantining when they return home. The airline, the airport’s largest operator, is to begin flights to Aberdeen on July 9 and Jersey the following day. Both will put it...
Bath-based alternative financial services group Time Finance is aiming to more than double lending over the next four years as part of a major expansion of the business. The group, which appointed a CEO earlier this month, also plans to fund more of its loans rather than act as a broker to other lenders...
Bath’s hugely popular Christmas Market could be reinstated this year after falling foul of Covid restrictions in 2020. Recommendations to bring it back in a Covid-secure way with a reduced number of stalls are set to be considered by Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) councillors next week. A report to the council’s committee...
A hub offering support to Bath’s high street traders and businesses as they recover from the effects of the pandemic has been launched in the city centre. Set up in an empty shop on Cheap St and using primarily recycled and reclaimed furniture, the temporary High Street Hub will provide quick access to business...
The University of Bath’s soon-to-open £70m motor industry global centre of excellence is to collaborate with the world’s largest automotive testing firm to help put the low-carbon car of the future on the road. The pioneering Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), now under construction on the Bristol & Bath Science Park, has...
Bath firms that have imported goods from countries in the EU this year are being urged to complete their full declarations or face a possible fine or prosecution as the final deadline approaches. Regional business group Business West, which is authorised by HMRC to process supplementary customs declarations, said companies needed to submit their...
