Latest News (October 2025) - Visit West

The South West’s best-tasting festival returns 31 July - 2 August 2026 to Chew Valley Lake with a celebration of music, feasting, fields… and cows

Andean bears, otters and meerkats foraging inside treat-filled cubes - all thanks to decommissioned fire hoses from Bristol Airport.

BillyChip and Big Issue team up with local artists to unveil 19-metre public artwork - ahead of major Bristol fundraiser with global DJ James Hype

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and passionate instructor to take on this role at Mendip Activity Centre working on our Accelerated Instructor Training scheme and help us on our mission, the Mendip Way.

Bristol is the only UK city to be named by Lonely Planet as one of the top destinations in the world to visit in 2026, thanks to its incredible street art.

As the guide says: “No city in Britain uses its urban landscape as a canvas quite like Bristol,” with “some of the best street art anywhere in Europe”.

The Administrator post will run the administrative systems that will enable The Natural Theatre Company to maintain its high standards, and go about its business.

This Autumn marks five years since The Wave Project brought its life-changing Surf Therapy programme inland for the first time - and 2025 will be the biggest year to date.

Cosy Club, the restaurant and bar group with 37 locations across the UK, has announced a new partnership with TV personality Jeremy Clarkson to serve his acclaimed Hawkstone Premium Lager on tap nationwide.

People are being encouraged to look out for ‘the van with a plan’ when it stops off at more than 50 locations over the coming weeks as part of a significant public consultation on growth plans, which could reshape Bath & North East Somerset over the next 20 years.

Tickets still available across Bristol for special events, new releases and hidden gems

The Forsytes, the major new reimagining of John Galsworthy’s Nobel Prize-winning Forsyte novels, begins on 5 on 20 October after filming predominantly at The Bottle Yard Studios and on location in Bristol with Film Office support last year.