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- Protecting your business in the age of cyber-crime
- ICO view on Virgin’s release of Jeremy Corbyn train footage
- Playing fair in the ‘gig’ economy – advice for employers
- Requirements for reporting on payment practices for large companies and LLPs
- The GDPR is coming – guidance to date
- New regulations surrounding changes to PSC registers
- Value of inheritance tax receipts has reached a record level
- Willans have raised over £10,000 for The Nelson Trust
- New partner for our commercial property team
- Prescriptive rights – whose land is it anyway?
- What kind of ‘endeavours’ should one agree to?
- Pitfalls of ‘agreements to agree’ – why it pays to be specific
- Lessons to be learned from charity commission inquiry
- A night to remember?
- An overview of current issues surrounding data protection
- Why LPAs are a valuable insurance for business owners
- Weigh up risks before suing for damages – a cautionary tale
- Corporate governance reform to ‘restore trust in British business’
- Employee or not employee? That is the question
- Business rates revaluation 2017 – what does it all mean?
- Probate fees hike shelved ahead of election
- Supporting the next generation of lawyers
- Willans supports the 20th Gloucestershire Business Awards
- Selling a business? Don’t ignore these legal considerations
- 5 important changes to the law happening today
- Celebrating 70 years of providing top-notch legal advice
- County business brains tested their wits at our charity quiz
- Avoid employment law pitfalls with our 2017 seminar series
- Landmark Supreme Court ruling on disputed will case announced today
- Keeping it in the family: Changes to inheritance tax with the new residence nil rate band
- Zero hours contracts may be at a “record high”, but have they already reached their peak?
- Probate fees hike expected from this May
- Immigration skills charge increases cost of sponsorship
- What employers need to know about the General Data Protection Regulation and employee data
- Sell out performance of live trial prepares employers for handling tribunal claims
- Willans are with you for the journey
- Legal changes businesses can expect in 2017
- We’ve pledged our support to help make Gloucestershire a great place to do business
- From High Court to high notes, our candlelit carols in aid of charity
- Pre-employment checks and the Data Protection Act
- Confidential information – if you have a policy, use it!
- Share purchase agreements – when is a warranty a representation?
- Trade secrets directive
- Willans advises one of the UK’s leading marketing service providers on share sale
- Without prejudice – legal jargon buster
- Private vs common land – use it or lose it
- Take care when varying a lease
- ‘Twas the Night Before the Christmas Party – preventing problems
- Protection for tenants from forfeiture despite non-payment of rent
- Focus on large companies that don’t pay their suppliers on time
- Another tax on death (by a different name)
- It’s not working out
- Staff effort rewarded by Local Business Charity Awards
- Brexit – how will it affect your intellectual property?
- 100 years combined experience in the corporate team with a new recruit
- Gloucestershire business scoops up our award for best digital company
- Best results yet for Willans in the latest national legal guide
- Top tips for drafting good business contracts
- We combine expertise to share one of the best kept secrets in business strategy
- Lawyers support national Air Ambulance Week
- Supporting younger talent
- We are delighted to announce our new charity of the year
- Inheritance tax and the family home
- Trespassers beware
- Lips are sealed
- Willans supports prestigious business awards
- Pokemon Go trespassers beware
- Extending the powers of telecom providers
- Lincing together to raise close to £11,000 to help beat cancer
- Monitoring employee emails
- Are Uber drivers ‘workers’ or ‘self-employed’?
- I predict a riot
- Boosting British enterprise
- Insolvency update
- Handling grievances & conflict management event in September
- Mediation – our new service
- Business immigration rules
- High calibre appointment for our rural department
- Directors beware of intellectual property infringement
- What does Brexit mean for your European workers?
- Coffee, cake and advice morning in Winchcombe this month
- What does Brexit mean for employment law?
- The death of annual returns
- Supporting women in business
- Commercial contracts and Brexit
- Investing in the future
- Business brains ‘linc’ together to raise funds for charity at our quiz night
- Recognise the importance of intellectual property to your business and protect it
- Top tips for protecting your business legally
- Willans supports Dementia Awareness Week
- How to play Monopoly and win; using intellectual property to make money for your business
- Help combat property fraud
- Significant changes to business immigration rules
- Willans handles high-profile deal for Space Catering (UK) Ltd
- National Living Wage
- The complexities of implied easements unravelled
- 34% rise in divorce court fees in England and Wales
- Opening the floodgates on water pumping claims
- M&A due diligence – is it necessary?
- Stressed in the City
- Budget 2016 introduces new stamp duty rates for commercial property
- Be careful what you give away
- Are you ready for the PSC register? New rules from 6 April
- Trustee oversight
- Courting trouble?
- New rate of stamp duty land tax for second homes
- A burning issue – vaping in the workplace
- Willans supports ‘Growing Gloucestershire’ initiative
- Taking bookings for April’s Make a Will Month in aid of medical charity Cobalt
- Holiday pay should include commission
- Willans helps national charity acquire new out-of-town ‘superstore’ in Cheltenham’s Tewkesbury Road
- New tax year, new employment laws – bookings now being taken for March briefings
- Three top tips for charity trustees this spring
- Lawyers back Pate’s Grammar
- Willans host charity concert at Pitville Pump Room
- The routes through court for intellectual property rights
- Local event to highlight the risks of cyber-attack to Gloucestershire businesses
- People news
- 12 tips of Christmas
- An unwanted gift?
- Beware of indemnities
- Hundreds head to our candlelit concert for Christmas cheer
- The national living wage is on the horizon
- Data subject access requests
- Is your business ready for the Consumer Rights Act 2015?
- Should you be following in Google’s footsteps?
- Scheme document published for Flood Re regulations
- Green Deal in trouble
- Recovering debt?
- Lease drafting – a cautionary tale
- New powers against illegal grazing
- Agricultural occupancy conditions – your options
- Open air festivals
- How well do you know your constitution?
- We grow in number and in rank
- Family feud over farm fortune
- Charity will scheme flying high
- New rights for working grandparents
- Roll on auto-enrolment – are you prepared?
- Is it the end of large-scale wind farm subsidies?
- New Countryside Stewardship scheme announced
- An update on agricultural tenancy reform
- Strongest ranking to date in the South West
- Rural lawyer reveals the county’s best farmers
- Land and farming partnership agreements
- From Padstow to Cheltenham – we welcome a UK celebrity chef to our offices
- Gloucester Cathedral will week
- Are you ready for the Consumer Rights Act 2015?
- Free will writing service to residents aged 55 and over
- Disclosure and e-disclosure in litigation – the key issues
- We are recruiting! Come and work for us
- Business professionals learn how to safeguard their intellectual property
- Willans works on high-profile deal for Autoclenz Group Limited
- Achievements of staff recognised at Local Business Charity Awards
- We have taken on a new charity challenge for LINC
- Pop-up shops: temporary salvation or long-term headache for landlords?
- Bank of England, the jobs market and the knock-on effect for employers
- Firm finalist of Business Awards
- Clarification of share buyback rules
- Can HMRC take an axe to your woodland business?
- The Deregulation Act 2015 – changes for residential landlords
- Creating company marketing material? Don’t be Innocent
- Fit for purpose? The new Fit for Work scheme
- Three top tips for charity trustees
- General election results and their employment law implications
- Enter your favourite food & drink businesses for local awards
- Got an idea? Starting a new business? Free start-up guide filled with legal tips now available
- A year of fun and games has raised almost £11,000 for National Star
- Information and advice evening at Cheltenham’s first dementia-only nursing home is a success
- Exclusive interview with our managing partner
- We have advised on the multi-million pound sale of Gloucestershire businesses
- Future legislative changes for companies to be aware of
- Popstar Rhianna says no to passing off
- Do something new for Dementia Awareness Week
- Record number of business brains compete at our annual charity quiz night
- Experts provide insights into dementia issues
- Dementia Awareness Week 2015: a good time to check your affairs are in order
- Private client lawyer for the vulnerable and elderly takes new role with us
- Inheritance tax and solar development
- Business leaders learn how to guard against the pitfalls of employees using social media
- Marketing calls – fines imposed
- Employing an ex-offender – retribution or rehabilitation
- Business immigration – how we can help
- Agricultual buildings and permitted development rights
- Amending a contract? Remember the law against penalties
- Top tips for charity trustees
- Is the succession of your farm at risk!?
- CAP reform – Basic Payment Scheme
- Should you settle a claim early to restrict costs?
- Thomas Pink wins trademark court battle against Victoria’s secret
- Restrictions on the title to registered land
- Abolition of milk quota
- Careful lotting of farmland is required to save SDLT
- New company name and trading disclosure regulations cut red tape for businesses
- Wide machinery and rights of way
- Shareholders’ agreements – Why do you need one?
- More changes to consumer law
- Changes to company law in the UK to be implemented
- Don’t delay on mobile phone mast lease renewals
- Trustees of charities – is CIO status for you?
- Budget proposal threatens use of deeds of variation to avoid inheritance tax
- Make your choices count and plan for the future
- Facing up to Facebook
- Linking into LinkedIn
- To tweet or not to tweet?
- Social Media and HR – dismissal by tweet?
- Ground breaking new HR legal compliance software and helpline unveiled
- Willans supports Cobalt’s Make a Will Month
- Companies House and their expensive typo
- New Consumer Rights Bill to come in to force soon
- Are you dealing with your digital legacy?
- Announcing 2015 employment law seminar dates and topics
- Will week raises funds for National Star
- Beware the holiday car insurance traps
- Fracking – myths and the truth
- Caution required when buying a listed building
- Our commercial and charity teams bolstered by arrival of new lawyer
- Chambers 2015 – leaders in their field
- Shadow and de facto directors – are you at risk?
- Farmers solar farm subsidies to be cut
- Bear traps for the unwary employer
- Cream of the crop – Taste Awards winners announced
- Legal rankings retained in South West
- New intestacy rules favouring surviving spouse/partner take effect today
- Silver anniversary for ‘Diamond’ lawyer
- Thinking of making a will? Consider taking part in Gloucester Cathedral’s ‘Make a will fortnight’
- Single Payment Scheme, Basic Payment Scheme and the transfer window
- Staff fundraising efforts recognised by local community
- No copyright, no cry: The court rules on Bob Marley copyright ownership
- Lawyers host first private view of Crucible2 exhibition
- Exhibition can attract visitors from around the world – managing partner speaks about Crucible2
- Too much monkey business
- Significant benefits to be had when voluntarily registering your land
- Residential tenancies – is a section 21 notice effective if served before the deposit is protected?
- Website blocking injunctions & ISPs
- Check for intellectual property provisions in your employment contracts
- Implied rights of way – not to be relied upon
- The Companies (Striking Off) (Electronic Communications) Order 2014
- Annual tax on enveloped dwellings – a pitfall for the farming community?
- No apportionment of rents permitted unless the lease allows it
- Selling to customers? Be aware of the new regulations
- Nominate your favourite farming, food & drink businesses for local awards
- Restrictive covenants in employment contracts – the tide is turning
- Restoring a company to the register
- Raising funds for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice
- Flexible working – a new dawn?
- Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has teamed up with us to offer a free will writing service
- Environment Secretary announces more detail about the greening element of the CAP changes
- Senior appointment to our wills, probate & trusts team
- YouView TV infringes our client’s trade mark, High Court rules
- Two new additions to our residential property team
- Agricultural buildings to residential dwellings
- Landlords – beware of the risk of releasing guarantors
- Willans appoints new female managing partner to share the top job
- Rural department gets a second pair of muddy boots
- Willans plays vital role in biggest UK exhibition of contemporary sculpture
- New employment law seminar dates announced
- Mis-selling case identifies the importance of accurate descriptions when selling horses
- Transfer of existing agri-environment schemes
- Beware of contractual deterrents in share purchase agreements
- 2014 property industry update – what will happen this year?
- Residential landlords and section 21 notices – which type should you serve?
- Think twice before you sell part of your property
- Dissolution of companies – beware of the pitfalls
- Preserving commercial relationships – an advantage of mediation
- Considerations when buying land with possessory title
- A time for employers to lift their eyes to the horizon
- Please Sir can I have my fixtures back?!
- Agricultural property relief – Will your farmhouse qualify?
- Work commences to build new Macmillan Cancer Support Centre
- Appointments are now been taken for charity Make-a-Will Month
- Quiz raises cash for county’s hospice
- It’s good to talk - early conciliation scheme
- Tenancy deposit advice for residential landlords
- New business partnership shares common environmental ground
- New face of the litigation team at Willans
- LinkedIn contacts – who owns them?
- Ending distress - introducing the new Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery or ‘CRAR’ process
- Charitable incorporated organisations: the way forward?
- Protect the value of your brand
- “12 Lawful Days of Christmas”
- Thinking of popping the question this Christmas? Or might Santa bring you a ring this year?
- Directors’ duties – a brief reminder
- Empty property rate relief scheme
- Avoiding a completion headache
- Zero-hours contracts Q&A
- A warning for directors when signing documents
- Do you know about Family Dispute Resolution Week?
- Protection from village green applications
- Family Q & A – helping answer some commonly asked questions
- Common Agricultural Policy – new scheme announced
- Biodiversity off-setting consultation
- Record year in Chambers’ legal rankings
- Strong success in South West legal rankings
- Taste food & farming awards – And the winner is….
- Farm buildings for housing?
- Managing partner recognised for work in the county
- Our lawyers join the line-up of speakers at Cheltenham Literature Festival
- Make the most of employment law reforms
- New opportunities for developers
- Client introduces new sushi restaurant to Cheltenham
- Should a charity enter into an authorised guarantee agreement?
- Celebrating the best of Gloucestershire
- Don’t click now and think later
- Invoicing Q&A
- New share buyback scheme
- Have you checked your air-conditioning lately?
- Obesity in the workplace
- Late payment of commercial debts
- Employee shareholder status
- Charity business rates relief
- Family and divorce Q&A
- It is time to improve building efficiency
- Volunteers are not protected against discrimination
- Shoot VAT
- Are company assets safe during a divorce?
- Lawyers ‘bang on’ fundraising target
- Easements – interference and remedies
- Employment tribunal supports fixed retirement ages in professional firms
- Tribunal fees update
- Management buyouts back in fashion
- SRA issues bogus solicitor warning
- Purrfect will helps local animal shelter
- Willans teams up with Cheltenham Chamber to offer legal clinic to businesses
- Will it be a legal ‘red card’ for Blackburn Rovers?
- Willans host ‘Meet the New Partners’ event in Cheltenham
- Breach of contract – or not?
- 2013 Budget – care home fees threshold drop leaves more for elderly
- A new kind of employee ownership
- Are you liable for fire damage to your neighbour’s property?
- New cap on unfair dismissals
- It may prove costly to change your service provider
- Share purchase agreements – enforceability of onerous clauses
- What is a contractor’s right to rectify defects?
- Green leases – time to take notice
- Leading employment lawyer joins Willans
- What is the Green Deal?
- Top commercial property lawyer joins Willans
- Cheltenham businesses battle it out for charity
- How enforceable are your ADR clauses?
- Agricultural occupancy restrictions and the need to test the market
- Equality Act 2010 update
- Farmers and ash tree die back disease
- Million dollar case rested on small print
- The paperless trail – document management in the digital age
- Willans helps Total Ltd. sue YouView for trade mark infringement
- Interest rate swaps
- Unfair dismissal claim by deceased employee’s estate
- The case of the dodgy banister
- Wheel clamping – the new picture
- The madness of boundary disputes
- Social media – be careful what you post!
- Live/work use for planning purposes
- Maximising empty rates relief
- New dawn for data protection
- Enforcing restrictive covenants
- Plans to boost UK house building, jobs and the economy
- PCC members and chancel repair liability
- Livestock on public rights of way
- YouView loses High Court appeal against Trade Mark Registry finding over brand name owned by Total
- Willans rankings announced in Chambers 2013
- Squatting is now a criminal offence
- Horses and the UK planning system
- Take part in Will Aid during November
- Promotion agreement; unlocking the potential for developers
- Willans supports ‘Make A Will Fortnight’
- Limit risk of discrimination claims
- Farming vital to Gloucestershire
- Investment opportunities in agri-business
- Break notice traps
- Fixed-term contracts
- Staff can get back holidays if they fall sick
- Compulsory retirement – an age old problem
- Mediations on the increase
- The way the cookie crumbles …
- Are you using images on your website illegally?
- Mind your manors!
- Difficulties of enforcing restrictive covenants in employment contracts
- Review of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
- Online bookmaker lost out on small print
- Charity begins at home
- Defamation – new law may put an end to online anonymity
- Bringing a claim for commercial fraud
- Charles Middleton steps down
- Economic duress: ‘illegitimate pressure’ requirement may include threats of lawful action
- Planning enforcement changes – deliberate concealment
- When can a director claim joint privilege?
- Cross-border debt recovery (EAPO)
- Severe penalties for asbestos offences
- Planning consent doesn’t trump a restrictive covenant
- Recouping the cost of troublesome tenants
- A warning on settlement negotiations
- The uncertainty of ‘reasonableness’
- Business common sense rules
- Bringing an action against an individual in a company
- Duty of confidentiality may be ‘implied’
- Pin down LLP agreements
- Common European Sales Law
- Clawing back bonuses – is it legal?
- Time off for the Olympics
- Employment law update
- Change to county court procedures
- A disputed boundary – what’s it worth?
- Significant reform to court procedure
- New compensation limits
- ‘Rural’ Gloucestershire
- Alternative dispute resolution annual conference
- Appeal court decision could put estate agents’ commission at risk
- Moustache for Movember
- Willans appointed to Clydesdale Bank’s regional legal panel
- Say no to ‘cookies’ cold-callers
- Is your side letter legally binding?
- Decoder cards get the thumbs up
- Late Payment Interest- Advice for Creditors
- Copyright infringement claim in ‘Star Wars’ case
- Chink in the armour: the High Court highlights a flaw in franchise agreements
- More rights for agency workers
- Cloud computing – how safe is it from a legal perspective?
- Landlords must comply with laws on service charges
- Selling land for development
- Security for costs: a strategic consideration in litigation
- Damages debate clarified
- ‘Considerations’ – terms that crop in the courts
- Varying a contract of employment
- Unfair dismissal – proposed changes
- Chambers 2012 – leaders in their field
- Out with the old: unfair dismissal claims and the elderly
- Hire purchase agreements
- New rule on ‘offers to settle’
- Willans celebrates strong showing in latest edition of Legal 500
- Referral fee ban welcomed
- JCT contracts – Main changes to the design and build form of contract
- Alternative resolution conferences (ARCs) – a new option for divorcing couples
- Willans are first solicitors in Cheltenham to win new Law Society quality mark
- Accurate record-keeping can help businesses get paid
- Luxury house disguised as barn breached planning law
- Contracts can sometimes be implied by the courts
- Restrictive covenants that can be relied on
- ‘Endeavours’ clauses in contracts
- Business property relief and inheritance tax
- The Dilnot report: care funding
- Are your retention of title (ROT) clauses effective?
- Formation of the contract of employment
- Time to get ready for new bribery law
- Changes to the Construction Act by LDEDC Act 2009
- Testamentary freedom under attack
- Japanese knotweed risk for developers
- Rights of entry and removal
- Contract was created in casual email
- Defamation? Prove it!
- Competition Act
- Right to request flexible working
- Dismissing when an employee has less than a year’s service
- Tribunal system reform
- Employer was vicariously liable for theft by employee
- Royal wedding gives bosses a public holiday headache
- New rights for unmarried couples?
- A better way to divorce
- You can’t take it with you
- A more civilised route to divorce
- It’s all a matter of compromise
- YuleTube if you want to …
- Breath of fresh air on ‘elf & safety’
- Breach of a repairing covenant
- Land agreements & Competition Act
- Protecting your privacy
- Equality Act 2010
- Updates on employee rights
- Disciplinary hearings: representation
- Agree terms before starting work
- Retirement and the DRA
- Enforcing judgment debts
- For richer, for poorer (unless you’ve got a pre-nup)
- Baby blues for company bosses
- A brush with the law
- Who is a whistleblower?
- The balancing act and rent claims in administrations
- Know your limitations
- Reduction of share capital
- What is a ‘reasonable’ adjustment?
- Constructive dismissal special
- Disciplinary procedure
- News from the sharp end
- The latest statutory limits
- Health warning for occupiers
- Insolvency streamlined
- Impact of Emergency Budget on matters affecting private client tax
- Chamber appointment
- Software – avoiding the bugs
- A matter of jurisdiction
- Sale of Weird Fish
- Think dispute, think ADR
- Downturn creativity for landlords
- Closing the stable door
- VAT changes hit charities
- Buying bust businesses
- “Fit” for work?
- Holidays at short notice
- Why apply for a job you don’t want?
- Whistleblowing’ changes
- Ding dong merrily ..
- Pre-packs under fire
- The less said the better
- Carbon reduction scheme
- The cost of contamination
- Working with children
- Leaning over backwards to be ‘PC?’
- More on sick leave and holidays
- A tale of two legal systems
- Charging orders survive bankruptcy
- Exclusion clauses
- First corporate manslaughter charge
- When unwelcome guests come to call …
- Energy from biomass
- Farmer wins claim over deceased relative’s farm
- Derogation from grant: you can’t give with one hand and take with the other
- Plugging the gap
- Tips won’t count towards wage
- Unfair dismissal claim – beyond belief?
- Fit notes
- David Glass retires
- Acquisition
- Fire alarm
- Will I get my money back?
- Security for costs
- Waiving goodbye to a right to forfeit?
- Personal guarantees… a risky business
- Landlords and tenants: finding the perfect lease arrangement
- Potential development pitfalls – rights of light
- Potential development pitfalls – drainage issues
- Lay-off and short-time working
- New code on discipline, dismissal and grievance
- Sick leave and holiday rights
- House of Lords overturns decision in Yeomans v Cobbe
- Obscure legal terminology: Surrender
- Retention of title clauses – one to include in your terms of business
- Resolving disputes in the current economic climate
- Laying off staff
- Relaxation in rules on nil-rate band
- Comparative advertising; don’t get caught up in civil and criminal liability
- Commercial property leases; pitfalls for landlords to consider
- Competition law; failing to comply can have serious consequences
- Legal ‘discretion’ may help defaulting buyers reclaim deposit
- Overage payments
- Planning permissions do not extinguish private rights
- Newts v wet feet – potential impact of the Wildlife and Countryside Act
- Benefits of becoming an LLP
- Long-term absentees and sick pay
- Rewriting the employment contract
- Flooding and drainage – proposals for planning
- Planning and Energy Bill
- Divorce, court orders and bankruptcy
- Illegal workers – a growing risk for employers
- Lexcelling’ ourselves
- Mental capacity and all that
- Schedules of condition
- Bouncing all the way to the bank
- When business partnerships go wrong (and how to avoid it)
- A case of mistaken identity?
- Who employs the agency worker?
- Nick walks his ‘21st’
- Why handling your own divorce is a bad idea
- Energy performance certificates (EPCs); how are your energy levels?
- Ho Ho Ho Hum!
- Swearing at work – what the &*%@?
- Thinking of selling your business? Legal tips for an effective exit strategy
- Offers to settle a dispute before it proceeds to trial
- Without prejudice privilege
- Obscure legal terminology; mesne profits
- Obscure legal terminology: distress
- Service charge recovery delay
- CVAs and landlords’ rights
- Landlords’ duty clarified
- Rating and empty properties
- Classic employment traps – references
- 60 glorious years of Willans
- A basic guide to intellectual property principles
- Final ruling in Frozen embryo case
- Managing health and safety in construction
- Business secrets up for grabs
- Classic employment traps – redundancy
- Changes to the Construction Industry Scheme
- No more Viagra jokes!
- Classic employment traps – sick pay and notice
- LLPs and ‘catastrophic’ claims
- Yeomans Row Management Ltd v Cobbe
- Have you made a will?
- Battling the bottle: drinking and the workplace
- You can’t bury the evidence
- Do I need to pay part-timers for bank holidays?
- Marriage and divorce – what a business!
- Classic employment traps – unlawful deduction of wages
- Short back and sides – discrimination legislation
- A classic mistake – how not to approach dismissals
- Advertising boards: a warning
- Developers’ contamination nightmare
- Frozen embryos ’ case – judgment from European Court of Human Rights
- Read the lease
Case Studies
- Commercial Group
- Sanderson PLC
- Joedan Group
- CEMAR
- Técnicas Reunidas UK Ltd
- Bamboo Technology Group
- Regency Clinic
- The Nelson Trust
- Holiday Architects
- Lansdowne Rodway Estates, Crown House Developments & Stock N Lock Self Storage
- Randall & Payne
- The Chartered Governance Institute
- Continental
- Cheltenham Festivals
- Sparsholt College Hampshire
- Marchants
- Cotswold Fine Jewellery Group
- KIBOUsushi
- Felt So Good
