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A leading provider of direct cremations says the Oscar-winning success of the short film “An Irish Goodbye” is prompting conversations across the UK on how people would like to see their lives celebrated when they die.
Bristol-based author Martin J. Powell will be talking about his new historical novel Maid of the Haystack at Heron Books in The Clifton Arcade, Bristol on Saturday May 20.
Men are increasingly making an event of getting their wedding haircut just right – taking their cue from how women have prepared for weddings for centuries!
International law firm Osborne Clarke has advised the University of Bristol as work begins on its new Temple Quarter Campus at a total investment of around £500 million. Work will commence this month after the University signed contracts with construction company Sir Robert McAlpine.
Yeovil’s Mayor, Councillor Evie Potts-Jones, will be carrying out the official opening of the town’s newest care home, Chestnut Lodge, at 11am on Wednesday 12 April.
Bristol Stanza Group and Lyra Festival present 'Walking Words'. Both a book and a digital walking trail, accessible through a mobile app where spoken versions of the poems are triggered on your mobile phone as a participant walks past the specific poem sites. The book, published by Bristol Books is based on the poems and is on sale throughout the Lyra annual Bristol Poetry Festival, which this year runs from April 22 to May 1.
Residents from a St Budeaux care home had a great time at a special dementia-friendly fun day at The Anchorage pub in Plymstock.
Capital gains tax rules are changing to make it easier for divorcing couples to divide their assets after separating without incurring a tax charge, says a leading tax lawyer.
The new manager of Avalon Nursing Home in Bridgwater says her personal experience of having a grandmother with dementia is what inspires her to ensure all residents in her care are treated like members of her own family.
The co-founder of a mobile barbering service has revealed how the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the USA sent shock waves that have affected many UK businesses.
A woman who used to work as a cleaner at a Wellington care home has returned to visit the residents of Camelot House and Lodge accompanied by some special woolly visitors.
National law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has advised Gloucester City Homes (GCH) on the purchase of a property that offers accommodation to homeless people and their dogs.
A city centre hotel in Bristol has invested around £50,000 to ensure its gym facilities are fit for purpose.
The stated priority of the chancellor’s Spring Budget last week was to grow the economy.
Bristol hoteliers claim the Government has left them out in the cold again after the budget offered nothing to ease concerns over soaring energy costs.
New-build homes due to go on sale next month (April) in Milborne Port near Sherborne have sparked high levels of interest both from local people and further afield, according to agents Greenslade Taylor Hunt.
After the birth of Carly and Steve Gibbens’ second IVF baby, they had the chance to introduce their first IVF baby – by then two years old – to the BCRM consultant responsible for his creation, and they told him her name was “Dr Magic.”
Lawyers at national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP have advised on the sale of food manufacturer Proper Cornish to a private equity-backed French group.
Design and construction specialist Dan Grimshaw from Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, has welcomed the news that bricklayers and carpenters are to be added to the list of trades with shortages and that rules governing migrant workers are to be loosened.
