coronavirus
02 Nov 2020
Britons claim they will head to rural areas for second lockdown
Papers including The Daily Mail and Property Investor Today cover news that people are reportedly temporarily migrating away from cities to rural areas in anticipation of the second countrywide lockdown...
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02 Nov 2020
Pub converts shipping container into shop for Longburton residents
Left to right: Becky Gibbons, son Kai Gibbons and John Gibbons outside The Larder A shipping container converted into a village shop in a Dorset pub has come to the...
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28 Oct 2020
Rural homelessness doubles since 2018 according to rural campaigners
‘Investing in affordable rural housing will level up and turbo charge the rural economy’ according to new research from CPRE, the countryside charity, English Rural and the Rural Services Network...
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26 Oct 2020
Record number of shops close with worse yet to come, warn analysts
The Guardian and Daily Mail have reported on research showing that a record number of shops disappeared from high streets across the country in the first half of 2020 A...
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26 Oct 2020
Increasing demand for rural properties to increase as pandemic continues
Publications including Farming UK and Somerset Live have reported on new research showing an increase in interest in rural locations among home buyers The papers reported on research from Zoopla...
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26 Oct 2020
Royal Mail launches doorstep parcel collections service
The Financial Times and the Independent have reported that Royal Mail postal workers are now collecting parcels from customers’ doorsteps for the first time through a new service called Parcel...
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19 Oct 2020
City dwellers idealise Britain’s countryside, but there’s no escaping rural poverty
The Guardian’s social policy editor argues that the pandemic has ‘exacerbated’ inequality in rural areas, and calls for a COVID-19 recovery strategy that ‘integrates town and country’ The article notes...
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19 Oct 2020
Rural Lens Review of Plan for Jobs – Protecting, supporting and creating jobs
The Government has put in place a range of measures, unprecedented in recent times and amounting to approaching £300 billion to address the impact of the pandemic. In its most...
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12 Oct 2020
Elderly forced to bank online in pandemic – but then cannot log on
The Telegraph reports that the rate of change from physical to online banking is creating a ‘societal divide’ as people who are poorer, elderly, or those who live in rural...
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12 Oct 2020
Government criticised for northern lock downs
Several newspapers, including the Mirror and the Telegraph, have criticised the Government’s COVID-19 restrictions in the north as being unfair, when infection rates in some areas of the south are...
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