A thriving rural economy
06 Dec 2021
Rural Economy Spotlight – December 2021
A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network highlighting a selection of current rural economic development news, issues and opportunities Government plans to phase out fossil...
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14 Sep 2021
RSN Economic Profiling Service – September 2021
The RSN Economic Profiling Service provides an analysis of Alternative Claimant Count with the September 2021 addition now being available. The analysis examines the ratio of claimant on flows to...
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13 Sep 2021
Rural Economy Spotlight – September 2021
A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network highlighting a selection of current rural economic development news, issues and opportunities National Rural Conference in full swing...
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07 Jun 2021
Rural Economy Spotlight – June 2021
A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network highlighting a selection of current rural economic development news, issues and opportunities Innovation levels in urban and rural...
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08 Mar 2021
Rural Economy Spotlight – March 2021
A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network highlighting a selection of current rural economic development news, issues and opportunities UK Community Renewal Fund, Levelling Up...
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01 Mar 2021
Rural Shop Report 2021
ACS (Association of Convenience Stores) has urged the Government to recognise the importance of rural shops and ensure that they are not left playing catch up when it comes to...
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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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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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01 Feb 2021
Boohoo and Asos just signalled the death of High Street retail – so who’ll fund public services now?
The Evening Standard reports that the news that Debenhams and Topshop have been bought by online retailers Boohoo and Asos respectfully, could be good news for Marks and Spencer and...
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