Swindon’s recently-opened UTC, which is equipping young people with the modern skills needed by its advanced engineering firms, epitomises the town’s ‘can-do’ attitude, MP Robert Buckland told its first business partnership event yesterday. The £10m UTC (university technical college) welcomed the first students to its state-of-the-art building in September and last night it took...
Swindon-based business travellers heading to the US will from next year be able to fast-track through customs and border security to more cities by flying from Bristol Airport via Dublin. Irish airline Aer Lingus Regional, which has been operating the pre-clearance service to New York for more than a year, is to extend it...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to introduce direct flights from Bristol Airport to four destinations including Gibraltar next year, taking the number of destinations it serves from the airport to 50. The new destinations follow a five-year agreement between easyJet and Bristol Airport signed last winter to continue the airline’s growth at the airport. As...
A refurbished office building on Swindon’s outskirts is half let having attracted Capita Travel and Events as an occupier. The firm has taken just over 10,500 sq ft on the first floor of Stirling House at South Marston, leaving just the ground floor of 10,520 sq ft available. It was previously based at the...
Law firms across Wiltshire are offering will-writing services throughout November in exchange for a donation to Swindon’s Prospect Hospice. The Make a Will Month scheme has raised many thousands of pounds towards the charity’s care for patients and their families over recent years and has been supported by solicitors in a number of firms....
Family solicitor Rebecca Stevens from Withy King’s Swindon office has been praised by a senior judge for providing more than 100 hours of free legal support to a father with learning disabilities battling to prevent Swindon Borough Council from having his young son adopted. Head of Family Justice Sir James Munby said Rebecca, pictured,...
