Spotlight on a digitally connected countryside
The RSN is calling on government to produce a fully funded, comprehensive rural strategy. In this strategy there are a number of areas which we believe are linked, and need to be addressed to produce a vibrant rural community. One of these is a Digitally Connected Countryside. All rural households and businesses should have the […]
NFSP calls for support to reverse Barclays scrapping of post office cash withdrawals
The National Federation of SubPostmasters (NFSP) is seeking co-signatures for an open letter to Barclays CEO Jes Staley The NFSP is requesting that the bank reverse its decision to cease allowing customers to withdraw cash at post offices from January 2020. Many Barclays customers rely on their local post office as a place where they […]
Britain’s coastal towns see highest rates of bankruptcy despite rise in staycations
Britain’s coastal towns dominate a list of areas which suffered from the highest level of bankruptcies last year, according to a new study reported on by The Sun. Research from accountancy group UHY Hackey Young suggests seaside towns are struggling to recover from decades of decline in shipbuilding, fishing and tourism. According to the report, […]
Peter Aldous MP: Young people in deprived areas being held back
Following the news last week that workers in coastal communities are paid less than their in-land counterparts, Conservative MP Peter Aldous has written a piece for PoliticsHome.com calling for counties to be given further control over education and funding. He notes that in remote rural areas, disadvantaged young people are half as likely to gain […]
Support for Rural Commission
As part of an ongoing campaign to protect the interests of rural communities, the Yorkshire Post has published a comment piece declaring the paper’s support for a new Rural Commission in Yorkshire. It comes after North Yorkshire County Council set up an independent ‘rural commission’ made up of experts to ‘take on the fight to […]
MPs urge Barclays to reverse decision on Post Office cash withdrawals
The Shropshire Star reports that more than 100 MPs have put their names to a letter to Barclays calling on the bank to reverse its decision to stop cash withdrawals in Post Offices from January. The cross-party group of MPs wrote to chief executive Jes Staley asking the bank to help end the ‘cash crisis’ […]
Warning to Boris Johnson over rural issues
The Yorkshire Post has published a piece by columnist Andrew Vine warning the Prime Minister about the danger of ignoring rural issues. He noted that little attention was paid to rural issues in Monday’s Queen’s Speech and that rural communities ‘might have been forgiven for thinking that they had suddenly been rendered invisible’. He claims […]
Time for a rural strategy
The RSN believes that the Government should take the lead and work with interested organisations to produce a comprehensive long term and funded Rural Strategy. We have developed a Template Rural Strategy which sets out the rational for calling for such a strategy. We believe that it should include the following component parts and the […]
