Barriers to Access
The RSN campaigns to help rural residents overcome multiple access barriers to key services which includes poor transport and broadband.
26 Nov 2018
Rural landlords face energy costs
The Farmers Guardian has warned that rural landlords could face an additional energy efficiency cost of up to £3,500 The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards introduced earlier this year prevented landlords...
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26 Nov 2018
Church calls summit to save rural schools
The Church of England will this week host a conference to brainstorm ways of supporting small, rural schools whilst ensuring they continue to offer the best education, according to an...
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26 Nov 2018
Drug-testing facilities in UK town centres
The parents of two teenagers killed by high-strength drugs have called for drug-testing facilities to be opened in town centres around the UK. Other countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland...
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19 Nov 2018
Calls for action over bank closures
The Banking Standards Board (BSB) has spoken out to say that small businesses suffer the most from the closure of bank branches and that British banks need to work together...
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19 Nov 2018
The future of money project
The Bank of England have recently launched a project which is designed to engage the public in a major consultation on the future of money. Called Future Forum, they are...
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19 Nov 2018
Internet speeds bad for rural businesses
Small companies face losing money due to poor broadband connections after research shows more than a quarter of employees find slow internet the most frustrating part of their job. A...
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19 Nov 2018
Cuts causing rural bus crisis
The Campaign for Better Transport has published a report into buses across the country entitled, ‘Buses in Crisis’. Using Freedom of Information requests, the report found that local authority bus...
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19 Nov 2018
9 million Brits put off rural move
58 per cent of UK adults have said they would not move to the countryside because of poor broadband, according to a new uSwitch report. The website MobileNews explores the...
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19 Nov 2018
Two-thirds of UK bank branches lost
New analysis from Which? suggests that nearly two thirds of the UK’s bank branches have closed over the past 30 years, the Mirror reports. Parliamentary records show that in 1988...
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12 Nov 2018
High street crisis intensifies
An average of 14 high street shops are closing every day, with only 1.569 new shops opening in the period between January and June 2018, an historic low. According to...
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