A half-day training seminar next month will guide business owners through the complex legal area of poor performance and sickness absence. Staged by Paul Archer, pictured, of Paul Archer Training, the event on September 22 will help attendees appreciate their legal options while avoiding the pitfalls by focusing on practical steps to reduce absence...
Fast-growing bicycle manufacturer and retailer Mango Bikes has attracted investment from two serial entrepreneurs to further strengthen the business. David Hanney and Toby Baxendale – previously chief executive and chairman of UK performance bike firm Planet X – have joined the board of South Cerney-based Mango as non-executive directors to help steer the business...
Rebecca Stevens, a family solicitor based in law firm Withy King’s Swindon office, has been shortlisted for a major legal award for a third time this year in recognition of her pro bono work. Her latest nomination is in the Legal Personality of the Year category of the Law Society Excellence Awards, having been...
Wiltshire law firm Bevirs Solicitors has joined Certainty – the National Will Register. Certainty, which is endorsed by the Law Society, provides an online space where people, charities, legal professionals and financial bodies can search for registered wills at low cost. Many people die intestate, or appear to be as wills can become lost...
Commercial law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, is advising the trade association for bookshops in its legal battle against what it sees as market abuse by online retail giant Amazon. The EU’s Competition Directorate (DGC) has launched a competition law investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements. But the Bookseller's Association...
Law firm Bower & Bailey is supporting Swindon Guide Dogs calendar for the third successive year following an excellent take-up of the 2014 and 2015 editions. The charity supports 20 guide dog partnerships across the town at a cost of around £5 each a day – £36,500 annually. Funds raised from the calendar’s sponsorship...
Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, which will be one of the UK’s largest solar farms when it starts generating next year, has been sold by a company owned by Swindon Council and the Science Museum in a multi-million pound deal. The 165-acre project on the former Second World War RAF airfield near Swindon has been...
Commercial law firm Thrings, which has its larget office in Swindon, has been reappointed to the National Farmers Union (NFU) legal panel for the South East of England. The firm will continue to provide specialist legal advice to NFU members across the seven counties making up the region for a further three years in...
Regional law firm Withy King, which has offices in Swindon and Marlborough, has been appointed to the Government’s panel of professionals that protects people who may not have the mental capacity to make decisions about their finances. Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) Panel of Professional Deputies is made up of court-approved professionals with...
Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Anna Cole, a partner at specialist personal injury law firm Novum Law, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Gone Girl, a psychological thriller that keeps you...
