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28 Oct 2019
Baroness Randerson: Reinvigorate buses urgently
Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Baroness Randerson has written an opinion piece for the website PoliticsHome.com in which she argues that the bus network needs to be ‘urgently’ reinvigorated She calls...
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28 Oct 2019
Britain ‘growing apart’ as young people leave rural areas
The Sun reports that areas of the UK are ‘ageing twice as fast as others’ as young people leave rural and coastal communities to find work in urban locations A...
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28 Oct 2019
Which regions are most prepared to go cashless?
The latest Access to Cash Report conducted by banking services provider thinkmoney has mapped which of the UK’s regions are the most – and least – prepared to go cashless...
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28 Oct 2019
New rural commission ‘confident’ of impact
Following the launch of North Yorkshire County Council’s Rural Commission, the Yorkshire Post reports that members have spoken of their confidence in producing ‘significant’ work According to the Council, rural...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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21 Oct 2019
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...
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