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A storyline on BBC soap The Archers has highlighted the importance of succession planning for owners of family businesses, particularly farming businesses.
Residents of a specialist dementia care home in Wellington, Somerset, have been thoroughly enjoying themselves in the company of Captain, an Irish Cob horse, who was brought to visit them in the garden of the home.
Local funeral venue, Bristol Memorial Woodlands, has sponsored this year’s Good Grief Bristol Festival, which is taking place on 30 and 31 October.
With a rapid rise in cases of parental alienation in the UK, a recent Judgement has shown that Courts are not taking the matter lightly and are unafraid to take action against offenders.
Bristol's business and cultural links with China were celebrated when a delegation from the West Country visited the award-winning "Guangzhou Garden" at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The gold medal-winning garden, designed by Bath-based landscape architecture practice Grant Associates for the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which is the sister city of Bristol, aims to highlight how planners must work in harmony with nature.
An eighteenth-century pioneer of jabs against smallpox; a great reformer in the often-brutal treatment of mental illness; an amateur GP who gave away free pills to the poor. They were all prominent doctors in Bristol 200 years ago - and all were Quakers.
Hoteliers in Bristol have warmly welcomed news of the relaunch of the West of England Branch of the Institute of Hospitality.
A Bristol neighbourhood, which grew up around a chocolate factory 100 years ago, is now being hailed as a perfect example of the latest 21st Century concept being used worldwide to design places to live.
The relaxing of pandemic restrictions resulted in a strong staycation summer which was warmly welcomed by hoteliers in Bristol.
A series of self-guided walks around London written by a Bristolian are proving a big hit with visitors to the capital this summer.
Dale Edwards, a Green Energy Strategic Consultant with national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP, comments on the UK Government’s eagerly awaited launch of its hydrogen plan.
Residents at a local dementia care home are being treated to a staycation with a difference, thanks to a beach environment that has been created especially for them at their landlocked home in Wellington, Somerset.
On the anniversary of the birth of the world’s first IVF baby, World Embryologist Day - 25 July - senior scientists in Bristol are aiming to raise awareness of advances in fertility medicine by revealing a glimpse of their daily behind-the-scenes activities.
Care for the environment is leading to a growing number of people in the South West choosing to be buried rather than cremated.
Hoteliers in Bristol welcomed the announcement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson that ‘Freedom Day’ is set to happen on 19 July.
West Country drinkers mostly associate Scotland with whisky – but now there is a new sprit available online from the North – rum.
Clarkson’s Farm has been praised for bringing farming issues to light but family lawyer Chris Longbottom, of national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP, says Jeremy’s own relationship status also brings an important talking point to the fore.
Marine Lake in Weston-super-Mare will reopen for the summer on Saturday 3 July after completion of the first stage of a £300,000 project to improve the popular community facility.
