Owners of a Bristol airfield which had to be shut said there is new hope for jobs. Thousands of posts could be created at Filton airfield, which BAE Systems had originally announced closed due to the upheaval at the firm and it was found to be no longer viable.
The Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, David Laws, has asked for a meeting with chief executive of BAE Systems Ian King to discuss the scale of job losses in the town.
Bristol Hospital is one the nearly two-dozen NHS trusts in danger of financial meltdown due to a finance agreement. The trust is one of 100 involved in similar privately-financed building schemes in the NHS.
Police have been warning businesses and depots to remain extra vigilant as over the weekend thieves struck at two locations. Vans were broken into which were parked in the yard of an industrial estate in Eastbrook Road in Gloucester plus a van in Stoke Road in the Bishop’s Cleeve area.
About 270 jobs at North Somerset Council are under future threat due to a programme of cuts amounting to £47 million. Conservative leader, Nigel Ashton, said the cause was further reductions in government funding and predicted jobs and services would be affected.
There is the possibility of up to 150 jobs disappearing in Swindon. Nokia Siemens is getting rid of about a third of its 400 research staff at Kembrey Park. The news follows the announcement in May that Virgin Media would be closing its call centre in Trowbridge which puts 450 people out of work.
Anyone who can identify the people in footage issued of the Bristol riots is being asked to contact police. Violent unrest began in the Stokes Croft and St Pauls area of the city on Monday, August 8 and there was smaller scale disorder in the city the following day.
The Orchard pub in Bristol Road, Quedgeley, was destroyed as flames ripped through its two floors. Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service had 14 vehicles tackling the fire. It had broken out in the early hours of the morning.
A £20 million plant is being built at Northacre in Westbury which will treat up to 60,000 tonnes of the South-West’s household waste per annum. The proportion of the county’s refuse being diverted away from landfill will increase from about 63 per cent to more than 80 per cent.
There could be more deaths after the closure of two coastguard stations – this was the verdict of a man whose nephew drowned in Devon. John Smith’s nephew, Mark Woodward, drowned at Rapparee Cove in Ilfracombe in 1989.