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10 Oct 2022
Rural economy needs to be at heart of policies
North Yorkshire County Council reports that senior Council figures have claimed that Liz Truss’s new Government should place the rural economy at the heart of its policies to provide a...
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10 Oct 2022
Uber style’ bus service to increase hours to help rural communities in Cambridgeshire
Cambridge News reports that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has announced that an ‘Uber style’ bus service will be extending its hours to cater for rural communities, starting from...
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10 Oct 2022
Levelling up failing in the North East, study finds
BBC reports that a new academic study by Northumbria University has claimed the government’s levelling up programme is failing in the North East The policy, aimed at tackling inequality in...
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03 Oct 2022
Rural homelessness increasing due to cost-of-living crisis, research finds
New research being conducted by the University of Kent and the University of Southampton has found that the cost-of-living crisis and the critical shortage of affordable homes has increased rural...
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03 Oct 2022
What happens when all the banks leave town?
The BBC reports that it’s been a couple of months since the last bank closed its doors in Brechin Some people have hardly noticed. They moved to internet banking years...
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03 Oct 2022
Call for Prime Minister Liz Truss to put rural communities at heart of Government policies
The Yorkshire Post reports that the new Prime Minister has set economic growth at the forefront of her new administration’s policy-making, aimed at ambitiously rebuilding the economy through tax cuts...
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03 Oct 2022
Investment zones could be allowed in England’s national parks
The Guardian reports documents show zones with ‘liberalised’ planning laws could get go-ahead even in the most environmentally protected areas Investment zones with “liberalised” planning laws to accelerate development could...
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03 Oct 2022
Sleeping in barns – homeless in the countryside
The BBC have reported on the interim findings of research into Rural Homelessness, commissioned by a rural taskforce. The research is being carried out by University of Kent and the...
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03 Oct 2022
NHS “dental deserts” persist in rural and deprived communities – LGA analysis
The LGA, which represents over 350 councils in England and Wales, is calling on the Government to address shortages in NHS dentists urgently or risk more people requiring costly emergency...
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26 Sep 2022
Rural Lens review on DEFRA’s latest report on Rural Proofing
Delivering for rural England – the second report on rural proofing was published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in September 2022. It follows on from Defra’s...
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