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08 Aug 2022
Vital Somerset bus route saved by councillors after hundreds sign petition
Somerset Live reports that a vital bus route in Somerset has been saved following a successful campaign by local councillors FirstBus operates the 173 services between Wells and Bath, which...
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01 Aug 2022
Letter to Tory Candidates on rural issues
The Rural Services Network is part of The Rural Coalition, an alliance of 13 national rural organisations who subscribe to a vision for a living and working countryside. The Coalition...
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01 Aug 2022
Over 500 bookings for Rural Conference
We are delighted to have received over 500 bookings for our National Rural Conference, taking place over the week of 19th September-23rd September online. The conference is free for members...
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01 Aug 2022
Why heat pumps sum up all that is wrong with ‘net zero’
The Telegraph reports how strict planning could force households to buy heat pumps even if they do not want them They were intended to be the silver bullet that meant...
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01 Aug 2022
Truss and Sunak tell rural Tory voters they will ‘champion’ their way of life
The Telegraph reports that the leadership candidates have pledged to ‘champion the rural way of life’ in a written plea to rural campaigners Writing in the magazine of the Countryside...
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01 Aug 2022
Shropshire rural care staff hit by rising fuel costs
BBC Shropshire reports that the rising cost of fuel is contributing to a lack of staff in rural areas, according to Shropshire carer Ash Turner Compensation for mileage no longer...
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01 Aug 2022
Selaine Saxbyn MP: To end the rural housing crisis, we must stop treating the countryside like a holiday park
Writing in Conservative Home, Conservative MP for North Devon, Selaine Saxbyn outlines her mission has always been to level up the pockets of deprivation in her ‘remote, rural and coastal’...
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01 Aug 2022
New Programme in Remote and Rural Medicine at University of Central Lancashire
Remote & Rural Medicine, MSc – UCLan Are you a clinician working or aspiring to work in Remote and/or Rural settings? Our Remote and Rural Medicine programme, designed with the...
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25 Jul 2022
National Rural Conference 22 – Open for bookings!
The Rural Services Network is pleased to announce the line-up for the National Rural Conference 2022 Focusing on the overall theme of Reducing Rural Inequalities and Improving Opportunities, the conference...
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25 Jul 2022
Consultation on the English portion of dormant assets funding
The Government has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental causes should benefit from more than £700 million of dormant assets funding in England Currently, dormant assets funding...
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