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Memories of dancing in the heyday of the 1940s—60s seaside music scene are the focus of a new oral history project and community event that has been launched with government funding.
The raft of employment law changes being introduced by the government will have a major effect in the arena of professional sport.
Residents at a dementia care home in Wellington really entered into the spirit of the season at Halloween, creating decorations galore, donning spooky fancy dress items and enjoying traditional games.
An outing to the Museum of Somerset by residents of a Taunton dementia care home included a tour of Somerset Military Museum which delighted them just ahead of Remembrance Sunday.
The South West offices of national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP have achieved top-tier rankings once again in the 2025 edition of the Chambers and Partners Guide.
Never mind 10,000 steps a day, a team of hoteliers made more than £10,000 in a day by stepping out on a fund-raising walk for the Hospitality Action charity.
Evelyn Partners, the professional services and wealth management group, is hosting a special event in Bristol to empower women to take control of their financial futures.
Businesses looking to refinance or buy commercial property and hoping to take advantage of any potential upcoming interest rate cuts are being urged to ensure their business records are up to date.
Bespoke property developer and architect StudioHIVE celebrated its tenth anniversary with a colourful party at Bristol’s Royal West of England Academy (RWA).
When Alex Halsey and his child therapy team came close to running out of vital sensory bears, he knew exactly who to turn to.
Independent accountancy practice Corrigan, which specialises in advising growing businesses across Bristol and the South West, has strengthened its team with several new hires.
Following the revelation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) earlier this year that at least one so-called ‘three parent baby’ had been born in the UK, the debate about ‘designer babies’ rumbles on, and a specialist fertility consultant at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) has said she is concerned by public perception about the difference between the contentious practice of gene editing and the relatively uncontroversial process of healthy embryo selection.
A singer whose performance was described as ‘worldclass’ and ‘breathtaking’ by judges who named her as winner of Germany’s version of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ will be doing a five-hour singathon at The Dolphin in Plymouth on 1 November as a fundraiser for the local dementia care home where she now works.
A month on from the Prime Minister’s warning that the first budget of the new Labour government on 30th October would be “painful”, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, signalled at the party conference that it would be a budget with ambition and for growth.
Sir Keir Starmer also reiterated last month that the government's number one priority is economic growth and that “all decisions will be made against that objective.”
An annual event to mark World Suicide Prevention Day has been called ‘poignant and beautiful’ by its charity organisers.
Dorset History Centre (DHC), the county’s archive service has received a substantial grant to work on the archives of Wessex Water and its predecessor organisations.
Hoteliers in Bristol hope this month’s budget – coming the day before Halloween – is not the stuff of nightmares for struggling hospitality businesses.
The relentless pace of technological change is making it easier for entrepreneurs to spot and exploit gaps in the market, a business audience in Bristol was told.
