Community grants for Yorkshire Dales
Rural communities in the Yorkshire Dales are being encouraged to apply for funding to improve local services and and other projects. A total of 36 projects – benefitting local communities, business and wildlife – received a total of £175,000 from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority last year. The authority’s Sustainable Development Fund (SDF) is […]
MP tackles ambulance response times
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart has voiced concern over ambulance response times in rural East Yorkshire. Mr Stuart has written to Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive Rod Barnes following evidence of substantial local variation in emergency ambulance response performance. Mr Stuart said he was concerned that the issue of local variation had not gone […]
Call to improve 4G rural mobile coverage
Rural businesses have called on Ofcom to reinforce calls for mobile network operators to improve 4g coverage in the countryside. The call was made by the Country Land and Business Association its response to an Ofcom consultation on coverage obligations in the award of the 700 MHz spectrum band./ Ofcom’s Connected Nations report in December 2017 revealed […]
