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17 Sep 2018
Free cash machines could disappear
The Times highlighted concerns that free cash machines could disappear within the next decade, following figures showing that 250 machines per month are closing as consumers opt for cashless payment...
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17 Sep 2018
Rural crime collaboration
The Northern Echo reported on how five police forces across the north of England have come together as part of Operation Checkpoint, the largest rural policing operation of its kind,...
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17 Sep 2018
RSN Briefing on Broadband USO
Implementing the Broadband USO Briefing note by the Rural Services Network September 2018 (This briefing note can be downloaded here) Context Despite the achievements of the Government’s superfast broadband programme,...
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17 Sep 2018
Support for ‘Pub is the Hub’
Trade journal Catering Today reported on the news that the Government has pledged £70,000 to the ‘Pub is the Hub’ scheme to support rural pubs. According to the Government press...
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10 Sep 2018
Concerns about rural access to banking
Yorkshire Coast Radio reported on plans by the Chair of North Yorkshire Council to write to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Secretary of...
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10 Sep 2018
Mobile coverage on motorways
It is being widely reported that around 5,000 miles of British roads have no mobile phone coverage, meaning that stranded drivers are unable to call for help. A further 44,369...
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10 Sep 2018
NFU rural broadband survey
The National Farmers’ Union has called on the Government to ensure that farmers across the country have access to adequate broadband. The NFU launched a survey to ‘build a true...
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10 Sep 2018
Elderly care ‘on brink of collapse’
A new survey by the charity Independent Age has revealed that chronic under-funding of social care means that older people are ‘increasingly let down’ by the system. During a survey...
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10 Sep 2018
Footpaths access post-Brexit
A number of local and national papers reported that the walking charity, Ramblers, has urged that farmers to use their taxpayer subsidies to maintain footpaths on their land after Brexit....
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10 Sep 2018
RBS to shut 54 bank branches
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it will close 54 branches across England and Wales in January 2019, with 258 jobs set to be lost. This follows 162 branch...
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