Future of Rural Areas
The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.
01 Apr 2019
Council tax rises highest in rural areas
This April will see the typical council tax bill in England rise by 4.7 per cent, according to the BBC. The rise is the second biggest in the decade after...
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01 Apr 2019
Ofcom confirms rural broadband as 2019 priority
The website TotalTelecom reports on the publication of telecoms regulator Ofcom’s 2019 priorities. Ofcom has put 5G and rural connectivity at the top of its priority list for the year....
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01 Apr 2019
Mobile companies to share masts to improve rural signal
The Daily Telegraph reports that Britain’s main mobile operators – BT, 02, Three, and Vodafone – are nearing a deal to improve ‘patchy signals in the countryside’. Despite previous reports...
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01 Apr 2019
Government invests in rural bus service
IT Pro and Yahoo News report that the Department for Transport is hoping to transform rural bus services with a digital system that opens up bus location data to developers....
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01 Apr 2019
Rural schools desperately need help
The Yorkshire Post has today published a letter calling for ‘desperately’ needed help for the area’s rural schools. Falling pupil numbers have been blamed for a loss of funding which...
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01 Apr 2019
Citizens’ Panel encourage a rural community voice
People from rural communities are being encouraged to have their say on the financial and economic issues they face directly to senior policy makers at the Bank of England. The...
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26 Mar 2019
Widening Participation in Higher Education
This analysis presents data on estimated percentage of pupils from state-funded and special schools by Free School Meal status who entered Higher Education by age 19. The analysis uses source...
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25 Mar 2019
Shadow Defra Minister: ‘Rural areas not Gov priority’
Shadow Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Drew MP has written a piece in the Stroud News and Journal about the ‘challenges’ of living in a rural...
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25 Mar 2019
Shops should be forced to accept cash
In response to the recent Access to Cash review, the website lovemoney.com polled readers on their attitudes towards cash. The review warned that the ‘death knell for cash’ in other...
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25 Mar 2019
Too much power concentrated in cities, says MP
Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West, has written an article in the New Statesman arguing that ‘for too long wealth and power has been concentrated in our cities’. She says...
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