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09 Feb 2021
UK-wide events to inspire and support delivery of community-led affordable homes in rural communities
Jo Lavis, ACRE’s rural housing advisor blogs ahead of the UK Rural Housing Summit 2021 and explains why groups should attend. Across the country rural communities are responding to the...
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08 Feb 2021
Final Settlement Published
The Rural Services Network (RSN) is pleased that the Final Settlement for Local Government, announced last week in Parliament with a written statement from the Minister, includes the additional £4...
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08 Feb 2021
Rural Review of Skills for Jobs – Lifelong learning for opportunity and growth
In the latest of our ‘Through a Rural Lens’ analyses we have reviewed the Government’s recent White Paper “Skills for Jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth” ‘Rural’ does not...
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08 Feb 2021
Impact of COVID-19 on the countryside
BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme has reported this week about the impact of COVID-19 on the countryside, where despite the fact that cases may be lower, ‘isolation and job insecurity...
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08 Feb 2021
Biomass Heat Works/biomass in farming areas
In the RSN review of the Government’s 10 point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution through a rural lens we said “A mixed technology approach is required for rural homes...
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08 Feb 2021
BT in talks with OneWeb over rural satellite broadband
Bloomberg has reported on discussions between BT and government-backed satellite maker OneWeb to provide rural broadband to people cut off from Britain’s fibre networks BT is understood to be in...
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08 Feb 2021
How COVID-19 ‘killed’ the high street bank
The Daily Mail has written this week that despite the fact that most people still rely on their high street bank, they are being driven away by branch closures and...
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08 Feb 2021
Ambulance-led rural vaccination scheme met with ‘hugely positive’ response
The i paper has reported that a pilot vaccination scheme in rural parts of Scotland is hoped to be extended to other parts of the UK after encouraging feedback from...
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01 Feb 2021
Philip Dunne MP continues as Chair of APPG
The Rural Services Network is delighted that Philip Dunne MP has been re-elected as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Services at the AGM on Wed 27th...
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01 Feb 2021
O2, Three and Vodafone agree new deal to improve UK’s rural coverage
Publications including Mobile Europe and Computer Weekly report that three mobile network operators have unveiled plans to build more than 200 new mobile masts to improve 4G phone signal in...
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