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Staff from the Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre have launched a Crowdfunding campaign to illuminate the bridge with a special light show as part of the Museums Association’s #SupportOurMuseums campaign, a new UK-wide initiative to support museums as they face the huge challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
With millions of the new rapid Covid-19 test kits due to be rolled out across the UK before Christmas, Wellington care home Camelot House and Lodge is among the first to receive its supply and today resumed close-to-normal meetings between residents and loved ones for the first time in months.
There’s a new passion, in the Covid era, for researching past residents of your own home. It’s been generated by the popular TV history programme ‘A House Through Time’. Peter Cullimore and his wife Sue are among fans of the BBC2 series, presented by David Olusoga, who’ve been inspired to become amateur house historians themselves.
The latest set of Coronavirus restrictions have been announced including the much-anticipated guidelines for the Christmas period, meaning families can now plan their festive breaks.
Bristol Zoological Society has unveiled plans to relocate Bristol Zoo to its Wild Place Project site to create a world-class zoo and to safeguard the future of the organisation.
Hoteliers in Bristol say they are heartbroken at news that the city is being placed in Tier 3 at the end of the current Coronavirus lockdown.
A Taunton law firm has renewed its support of the Somerset County Cricket Club (SCCC) Pathway Programme which supports young people in developing their cricket skills.
A new Government scheme which aims to help people experiencing difficulties with debt is due to come into force in May 2021.
A Taunton woman is celebrating the arrival of twins – who were born two years apart.
Hundreds of people across the south west benefited from over sixty presentations on digital technology at the recent three-day Festival of the Future which took place on line.
Business turnaround specialist Claire Burden has joined financial and professional services firm Smith & Williamson as a partner in its national advisory consultancy business, offering profit and operational enhancement and turnaround services.
Nominations are open for people to secure recognition for the outstanding community work of Bristol’s unsung local heroes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Road Safety Week 2020 has unveiled some shocking statistics leading to legal experts calling for tighter road safety measures.
Leading academics from the University of Exeter have been recognised as being amongst the world’s most influential researchers, according to a prestigious new ranking.
Mayor Marvin Rees has written an open letter to the people of Bristol.
Westerleigh Crematorium, near Bristol, is giving six local charities a total of £17,000 in donations, which it raised as part of its metal recycling scheme.
Keeping track of pensions can be difficult - and knowing how much you are being charged and whether you should keep them is even harder.
Children at Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-Schools across Bristol have had to get creative with their Children in Need fundraising efforts this year in order to abide by coronavirus rules.
A major research project is underway which will map Bristol and Bath’s burgeoning links with China for the first time.
