Councils invest £500m to save services
New figures show community councils in England are set to spend an extra £33m on local services over the next year. The additional investment will be spent on safeguarding facilities such as public toilets, youth services, parks and open spaces and libraries, suggests analysis from the National Association of Local Councils (NALC). The Ministry of Housing, […]
Detail needed on broadband pledge
A government pledge giving everyone the right to faster broadband is welcome news – but not the end of the story, says the Rural Services Network. The government has promised that everyone in the UK will have a legal right to an affordable broadband connection of at least 10 Mbps by 2020. It follows the […]
Rural Services Network responds to government’s ‘universal broadband’ pledge
PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release Thursday, 29 March 2018 The Rural Services Network [1] has responded to a government pledge that everyone in the UK will have a legal right to an affordable broadband connection of at least 10 Mbps by 2020 [2]. RSN chief executive Graham Biggs MBE said: “This is welcome news – and […]
