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The pioneer of an online “webcam wills” service says the Covid-19 pandemic should prompt an overhaul of the Victorian legislation which currently governs the making of a valid will in England and Wales.
This week’s Government announcement that hotels can re-open their doors to guests from July 4 has been welcomed by the Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA).
After an absence of 14 years the Osmond Tricks name has returned to Bristol, formed by four directors (two from the original company) together with a group of highly experienced and talented property professionals.
The Bright Sparks pre-schools in Downend and Stoke Lodge have changed hands and plans to make the settings more flexible for local families have been revealed
Bristol residents are being urged to make time to check in with one another following the launch of a new Are you OK? campaign in the city.
Researchers from the University of Bristol studying fossils from the Severn Estuary have uncovered the feeding habits or reptiles that lived in the area 200-million years ago.
A silent disco kit is helping transform the lives of people with dementia at a care home in Somerset.
Lawyers at international legal practice Osborne Clarke have acted for the management team of Clevedon-based Glide Group on its sale by Inflexion Private Equity Partners to Alinda Capital Partners.
Babies, toddlers and pre-school children across Bristol have enjoyed their first week back in early education after the lockdown was lifted for nursery settings on 1 June.
Two Bristol hotels are offering complimentary rooms to NHS staff in the city as a way of thanking them for their heroic efforts during the Coronavirus crisis.
Employers will need to understand and carefully manage their role in the test and trace process, and the potential impact on their business, taking on board the government guidance on how it will work and the accompanying workplace guidance.
Bristol’s second virtual Death Café is being planned for later this month following the sell-out success of the first in May.
Memorial gardens are to be created at several crematoria in the South West as tranquil places where people can come to remember loved ones who died during the Covid-19 pandemic and pay tribute to those who sacrificed so much to help others who were sick, isolated or vulnerable.
A Weston-super-Mare couple who thought they had lost their dream of being married this year WILL be exchanging vows after all – thanks to a top tourist attraction.
A community choir run by the New Room in Bristol has secured a £900 grant from Arts Council England to enable it to expand its community outreach and offer opportunities to improve wellbeing for new audiences in central Bristol.
Bristol Memorial Woodlands is now able to offer larger scale funeral services depending on the number of households involved.
Bristol’s shady links with the historic slave trade will be under the spotlight when the BBC’s popular series ‘A House Through Time’ restarts on Tuesday 26 May (BBC2 9pm), launching its third series by unearthing previously unknown stories of life at number 10 Guinea Street, an 18th-century sea captain’s house situated near the city’s docks.
Financial and professional services group Smith& Williamson has announced a number of strategic management changes in its Bristol office.
A Bristol firm responsible for the UK’s first “webcam wills” service has launched another first – helping to provide “cryptocurrency wills.”
Menthol cigarettes have been banned in the UK from May 20 with West Country smokers looking for alternatives to the flavoured cigarettes.
