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RBS announces 300 more job cuts for Bristol workforce

Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced yet another round of job cuts in Bristol. 

The bank, which is 83 per cent owned by the tax payer, revealed it is closing one of its offices in the city as part of a nationwide cost cutting drive which will see 3,500 posts...

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Children's shop opens

Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Early Learning Centre has opened a new store in Bath – three months after shutting its previous shop. The firm, which sells toys, books and...

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Profit flow doubles at watercooler business

Phil Langley founder of Premier Water Coolers, Swindon

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

South West-based Premier Watercoolers has seen its profits increase by 45 per cent for the first six months of the year.

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Fox not sold on base for troops

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has played down the chances of the West’s biggest RAF base being occupied by thousands of soldiers after its expected...

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Here's to new coffee venture

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

AFTER spending two years working for Starbucks, Victoria Mylod was keen to set out on her own. So when the 26-year-old noticed there wasn't a coffee...

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Anger over 'secrecy' as plans for economic alliance slated

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Business leaders have attacked plans to form an economic alliance between Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire. The South West Regional Development...

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Make sure electric blankets are safe

Monday, August 30, 2010

People across the West are being warned to get their electric blankets checked for safety. Bristol City Council and Avon Fire and Rescue Services...

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Sir Winston Churchill biography found in Bath book store

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A signed copy of part of an epic biography by wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill has turned up in a specialist Bath store. Rooke Books in Northumber...

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Historic pub is ready to greet drinkers again

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A TEWKESBURY pub that closed suddenly earlier this summer is due to reopen on Saturday. Wadworth, the Wiltshire-based brewery that owns the Berkeley...

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Training hopes to get skills on the increase

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

An autumn schedule of practical on-farm training courses for sheep farmers and their stockmen has been announced as part of the XLVets' FarmSkills...

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Today's blog: Louise Garcia, of Withy King Solicitors

Louise Garcia, Withy King

PFI schemes misrepresented

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Round Table Debate - June 29

Alan Qualtrough, editorial director South West Media. Round Table Debate

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