Hospital services consistently failing
Nearly one fifth of hospitals consistently fail to hit waiting-time targets, according to new BBC analysis, with 29 hospital trusts out of 157 failing to meet a single target for a whole year. Waiting time targets are different across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; but in each nation patients are meant to be seen […]
Rural landlords face energy costs
The Farmers Guardian has warned that rural landlords could face an additional energy efficiency cost of up to £3,500 The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards introduced earlier this year prevented landlords from granting new leases for properties with an Energy Performance Certificate below an E rating. However there was an exemption if a landlord could ‘prove […]
Church calls summit to save rural schools
The Church of England will this week host a conference to brainstorm ways of supporting small, rural schools whilst ensuring they continue to offer the best education, according to an article in The Sunday Times. More than a third of the Church of England’s schools now have fewer than 210 pupils, with 2,000 schools fighting […]
Rural roads are the biggest blackspots
New analysis from the road safety charity Brake has found that, on average, a cyclist or motorcyclist is killed every hour on UK roads, according to the website Motor1. The study also found that, during 2017, two thirds of bike-related deaths occurred on rural roads, making them the most dangerous in the country. Joshua Harris, […]
Drug-testing facilities in UK town centres
The parents of two teenagers killed by high-strength drugs have called for drug-testing facilities to be opened in town centres around the UK. Other countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain provide government-funded services where people can test the content of illegal drugs, but the UK has no such equivalent despite having the some […]
£25k rural wildlife killing trips
The Mirror reports that a firm which organises hunting trips in the UK costing up to £25,000 has come under fire from animal welfare campaigners. The company, Europehunts.com, is jointly run by an American and a British man and offers ‘world record class animal’ hunting with the top-end animals such as red stags costing up […]
Peta – rename village ‘Vegan Wool’
Animal rights campaign group, PETA, has raised eyebrows by asking the village of Wool to change its name to Vegan Wool, according to the inews website. The request was submitted to the village of Wool, founded in the 11th century and today home to some 5,300 people, in order to raise awareness around the cruelty […]
