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Jaya Chakrabarti MBE, founder of the award-winning social enterprise TISCreport, has been announced as the new President of Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative.
Gloucestershire business, in my view, will welcome Boris Johnson’s idea of creating more directly elected Mayors. In Gloucestershire, particularly, where we have six district councils with the need...
Two years after he entered Downing Street and introduced his much-heralded levelling up plan for the country, Boris Johnson today gave us a half term report on how it was going. What we got, in my...
Mark Hawthorne has been leader of the Conservative controlled Gloucestershire County Council for 11 years, and at 46 has been a councillor for more than 20 years. In a wide-ranging interview, I spoke...
The intimidating heavyweight boxer, Mike Tyson, once famously replied to a reporter who asked whether he was worried about his opponent’s fight plan with the response: “Everyone has a plan until they...
Despite welcome news of a rebound in business activity, confidence and cashflow, albeit from an historically low base, the speed and extent of the South West’s economic recovery is threatened by...
Bristol and West of England Chamber & Initiative President Richard Bonner opened and chaired what is set to be one of many climate change themed Initiative meetings in the coming months and years...
Figures from the aerospace and tech sector from across the South West took part in a future of flight business breakfast organised by Bristol Airport and Business West on Friday 25th June. Taking...
Universities Minister and MP for Chippenham, Michelle Donelan, MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, and Leader of Wiltshire Council, Richard Clewer, recently took part in a virtual roundtable discussion...
