Latest News (March 2026) - Visit West

CUPP will open a brand new flagship concept store in Bristol this spring, replacing the brand’s much-loved Cabot Circus shipping container and marking the next chapter for the Bristol-born drinks brand.

Bristol’s creative community will come together on 15 May 2026 for a night of music, conversation and solidarity. 

Bristol’s hospitality heroes have been honoured in a glittering gala to celebrate those whose professionalism and hard work has brought such benefit to the city.

FORWARDS returns this August for its fifth year, bringing the biggest names in international music for an electrifying two-days where genres collide and creative talent takes centre stage.

Volunteers invited to join the Big Broadmead Spring Clean from 23-29 March as part of a new programme of events celebrating and showing love to the city centre.

Bristol Improv Theatre is fundraising to create a new ‘Yes And’ Bursary fund
allowing people struggling with their mental health to access self-confidence boosting improv classes. 

The third and final term of comedy-drama Boarders arrives on BBC iPlayer, BBC One and BBC Three on Sunday 15th March.

Badminton Estate is seeking a full time Assistant Estate Surveyor to support the Head of Rural & Property in managing a diverse rural estate spanning over 60,000 acres across Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Wales.

Iford Manor Estate has recently been featured in More4’s series ‘Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith’, in which Penelope follows the passionate owners of Britain’s country houses as they do whatever it takes to keep their historic homes in one piece.

Bristol Poetry Festival Returns in 2026 with an Expansive 10-Day Celebration of Wonder & Wanderers.

Set within a local British woodland, the spectacular African Forest will open at Bristol Zoo Project on 1 April.

We take a look at press and media coverage for Bristol, from February 2026.