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A Bristol hotel has unveiled its glittering new ballroom following a £100,000 refurbishment and extension.
A new state-of-the-art fertility and IVF clinic serving the South West is set to open soon at Aztec West, Bristol.
After marrying in 2018 retirees Colin and Sue Sowden recognised the “the fulfilment of their dreams” when they saw their home-to-be in Upavon, Wiltshire, and now they are settling down to a new life after downsizing from a three-bed house in Camberley, Surrey.
A beautiful woodland location in Alveston, near Thornbury, is being offered up to schools and other play groups as a setting for outdoor exploration, forest schools and nature play sessions.
A brand new purpose-built nursery is coming soon to Charlton Hayes, providing a much-needed childcare setting for the local community.
Westerleigh Group’s first Head of Memorialisation, Matthew Brook, says he wants the business to become the industry-leader when it comes to providing uniquely personal memorials.
As the dust settles in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s third budget, hoteliers in Bristol say the Chancellor has given them nothing but cold comfort for the winter.
A ground-breaking new at-home test has been developed by UK scientists to help couples struggling to conceive to improve their chances of having a baby.
From creating dedicated memorial gardens for babies to illuminating a chapel in blue and pink lights, Westerleigh Group’s crematoria marked Baby Loss Awareness Week in a variety of ways.
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.
