Latest News (December 2025) - Visit West

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On 8 December 2025, The Bottle Yard Studios were honoured to welcome Her Majesty The Queen for a very special visit to the set of Disney+’s Emmy and BAFTA award-winning drama series Rivals, at their premium TBY2 facility. 

Olivier Award-winner Guy Masterson is set to return to the Theatre Royal Bath with his internationally acclaimed, sell-out, solo performance of Charles Dickens’ festive favourite A Christmas Carol. 

Lambrini Girls, Fcukers, and NewDad lead the line-up of the first 30 acts announced. 

Bath International Music Festival has announced a series of five world-class concerts ahead of its 2026 festival, providing music lovers with a taste of what’s to come in the summer. 

Bristol's iconic ferry service is opening up its hugely popular education and history tours to the city's community groups - for free this winter. 

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School held a naming celebration in Dame Patricia Routledge’s honour.

This Christmas, stage and screen star Tristan Gemmill will don the infamous hook and sail to Neverland as the fearsome Captain Hook in this year’s pantomime spectacular, The Further Adventures of Peter Pan: The Return of Captain Hook.

Rehearsals are underway for a fantastic new re-telling of Charles Dickens’ beloved story at the Theatre Royal Bath, as an inclusive company of more than 100 people come together to stage David Copperfield: A Life. 

A new partnership to improve access to Longleat for those with disabilities has been announced today by the Wiltshire estate.

Mendip Activity Centre has received full planning permission to construct a new purpose-built accessible watersports lake on its 250 acre site.