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The Doubletree by Hilton, Bristol City, near Temple Meads Station was reopened this week for key workers only by Focus Management Ltd, the leading hospitality group that manages the hotel. It is among a small number of the group's hotels providing accommodation for workers from the NHS, pharmaceutical industry, distribution and construction sectors.
Please stay away – is the message from North Somerset Council following the relaxing in lockdown restrictions.
Bristol’s Reuse and Recycling centres will reopen to the public from Monday, 18 May with strict new measures being put in place at both the Avonmouth and St Philips sites so everyone can follow guidelines around social distancing.
With Britain’s housing market due to re-open as the lockdown is eased, the first release of shared ownership homes at The Chocolate Factory in Greenbank has been announced.
Bristol-based partner Michelle McGurl is the new head of the projects, real estate and finance (PREF) practice group at international legal practice Osborne Clarke.
Bristol Memorial Woodlands has reopened to the public, following a change to the rules signed by the Secretary of State for Health. Families are once again visiting the resting places of their loved ones and others to enjoy the woodlands, providing they adhere to social distancing rules.
North Somerset Council has purchased its own supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in an effort to support local care workers – and the first instalment has now arrived.
Bristolians are being encouraged to hang up the bunting and celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe while staying home.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has promoted two partners and one legal director from its Bristol office as part of a wider UK promotions round.
SME manufacturers are calling for greater and faster financial support from the Government as they confront plummeting sales, profits and production volumes amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
People in the Bristol area have the chance to go online and discuss everything to do with death and dying in the area’s first-ever Virtual Death Café next month.
A legal firm in Bristol has adapted to the social distancing restrictions and surging use of technology brought about by the Covid-19 crisis - by launching the UK’s first “webcam wills” service.
The night sky above Weston-super-Mare’s seafront now has a distinctive blue tint to it as the Grand Pier pays its own tribute to the NHS and other essential workers during the current pandemic.
Many people in the South West who were on the receiving end of fertility treatment have had their lives put on hold because the UK’s official regulators and advisory bodies have unanimously called for a halt to all fertility treatments during the current Covid-19 crisis.
Expert lawyers are reporting an increase in parents using the coronavirus pandemic to avoid paying their monthly maintenance payments.
A Bristol business that is developing a reusable manufacturing satellite that will enable materials to be built in space has secured £250,000 worth of funding, including backing from a dozen of Bristol’s established entrepreneurs.
In response to one of the toughest Coronavirus challenges - the need to keep life as normal as possible for care home residents living with dementia – a local activities organiser has revised plans for spring with a programme of entertaining and healthy new coronavirus activities that can take place wholly within the care home.
North Somerset Council says it is working hard to get payments out to businesses under the support schemes announced by the Government due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bristol office of national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has expanded its private capital team with the appointment of two new solicitors.
