THE Rural Services Network [1] has welcomed a study highlighting the plight of people who are being forced out of the countryside due to high house prices

THE Rural Services Network responds to findings that rural families pay £600 more per year in childcare costs than their urban counterparts.

GOVERNMENT proposals threaten to reduce the delivery of much-needed affordable housing in the countryside, the Rural Services Network [1] has warned.

AN innovative rural network set up to help combat crime in the countryside has been praised by a government minister.

Further cuts to vital bus services threaten to have a devastating impact on England’s rural communities, the Rural Services Network [1] has warned.

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal will be delivering a keynote speech at the national affordable rural housing conference being held in Cheltenham on 21 Febuary 2014.

PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release 4 February 2014 A new National Rural Crime Network, endorsed by eighteen (18) of the UK’s Police and Crime Commissioners, has been set up to help

Rural funding in the spotlight again as MPs put the Government under pressure.

Debate in Parliament shows that funding for rural authorities is a thorny issue that has not gone away.

Rural local authorities have reacted with disbelief to the Government’s latest funding consultation which moves considerable resources to urban areas in London and the south east of England.