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08 Oct 2018
Cautious welcome for social care funding
On Tuesday 2nd of October the Health Secretary announced additional £240m funding for social care. Funding to local authorities will be payable in 2018-19 to help deal with winter pressures. ...
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08 Oct 2018
Borrowing cap scrapped
There was broad media coverage of Theresa May’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference, during which she announced that she is lifting the borrowing cap on local councils to help...
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08 Oct 2018
Calls for a online sales tax
The Times reports on calls from the Tesco boss for a two per cent tax on goods sold online to support ‘bricks-and-mortar’ retailers. Dave Lewis, Tesco’s chief executive, said an...
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08 Oct 2018
Towns are key election battlegrounds
The Sunday Times Magazine featured a long article on the increasing importance of voters living in towns across Britain. It highlighted the feeling of disempowerment that has been growing in...
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08 Oct 2018
Rural hospital success reported
The Daily Mail reported on Public Health England data collected over the last year from 151 hospitals showing that rural trusts have, on average, the fewest cases of E.Coli infections....
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08 Oct 2018
Rural maternity services
Managers of an Oxfordshire NHS trust have called for GPs to have extra training on how to perform caesarean sections, the Independent reports. According to the Independent, to address shortages...
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08 Oct 2018
National recycling confusion
The Local Government Association has rejected calls for a nationwide standardised recycling system saying that ‘no one size would work’. The charity Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) highlighted that there are...
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01 Oct 2018
Rural communities are suffering austerity
Speaking at a Labour fringe event at conference last week, Plymouth MP and Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities Luke Pollard warned about the danger of assuming that urban...
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01 Oct 2018
Plans announced to save rural banks
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Rebecca Long-Bailey MP was interviewed by the Eastern Daily Press during the Labour Party Conference about plans to protect rural...
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01 Oct 2018
New food supplies minister
The Guardian and several trade outlets reported on the appointment of David Rutley MP as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The Government...
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