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21 Feb 2022

Hinterland – 21 February 2022

This week, the end of restrictions, a woke push back, the risks of a tightening benefit system, energy policy hindsight, basic income experiments and recognition for back yards – bring...

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07 Feb 2022

Hinterland – 7 February 2022

In Hinterland this week: levelling up, rural living costs, pricey food and some funny rural films. Read on!! *         *          * Impact of the pandemic on rural shopping habits An...

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03 Feb 2022

February 2022 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight

Welcome to the February 2022 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight We’re delighted to share with you the first edition of Spotlight for 2022, show casing all things rural.  In this bumper...

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Spotlight on Rural Housing – January 2022
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24 Jan 2022

Spotlight on Rural Housing – January 2022

A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network and produced in partnership with the Rural Housing Alliance, highlighting a selection of current rural housing issues and...

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24 Jan 2022

Hinterland – 24 January 2022

In Hinterland this time, some long term political planning on rural, where better to think these issues through than in a community owned rural pub? Tourism businesses in trouble, national...

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10 Jan 2022

Hinterland – 10 January 2022

2022 starts at pace with: housebuilding, omicron, online meetings, windfall taxes, celebrity restaurants and archeologically themed badgers. Its good to be in touch again!!! *         *          * Sort out housebuilding...

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13 Dec 2021

Hinterland – 13 December 2021

In Hinterland this week: the sad challenge of cyclists on rural roads, the impact of rural policy on the landscape of rural England, fly tipping and some very depression side...

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Rural Economy Spotlight – December 2021
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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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29 Nov 2021

Hinterland – 29 November 2021

The weather tells me it is definitely beginning to feel like Christmas – 3 and a bit weeks out from it! In Hinterland this week – brownfield land exhortations, sewage...

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15 Nov 2021

Hinterland – 15 November 2021

In Hinterland this week – remembrance, COP’s rural implications, budget slight of hand to give rural areas a lesser deal in the successor to EU funding, hospitals at bursting point,...

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