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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.
Peter and Sue Cullimore’s Georgian home in the Montpelier area of Bristol was shortlisted for the TV history programme ‘A House Through Time’. The BBC eventually chose a rival property near the city centre for its new four-part series in Bristol.
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.
Coach tour operator Bakers Dolphin has moved all its vehicles to a new indoor facility due to its former parking area being re-developed for housing.
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.
North Somerset MP Dr Liam Fox has had so many angry emails from constituents about the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser Dominic Cummings that he is unable to reply to them personally.
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.
With lockdown looking set to continue for many more weeks for those over 70, a Taunton care home supporting people with dementia has been providing a virtual getaway with a Spanish flavour for its residents.
Following this week’s decision by the fertility regulator, the HFEA, allowing fertility clinics to apply to recommence routine treatments, the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) has been named as one of the first clinics nationwide permitted to resume operations.
A new quarterly magazine is being launched in the South West to support the region’s building, construction and plant industry.
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.
