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31 Oct 2022

A new leadership for rural?

Blog Post by Kerry Booth, Chief Executive Designate of RSN As we prepare again at the RSN to write to the new group of Ministers, setting out the case for...

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03 May 2022

Will ‘levelling up’ deliver for rural areas?

The below article written by RSN Chair Cecilia Motley is featured in this months Local Government First (click here to view this article). Launched with a flurry of grand statements, the...

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19 Apr 2022

How can we get the measure of rural fuel poverty?

This blog has been written by Jessia Sellick, of Rose Regeneration.  What is fuel poverty? In general, it relates to households that have to spend a high proportion of their...

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11 Apr 2022

Rural anger on bus funding

On the 5th April the Government announced its long-awaited funding allocations for Bus Service Improvement Plans. The RSN’s Chief Executive, Graham Biggs, comments here: “Well now we have it –...

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04 Oct 2021

Levelling up is failing to solve the rural housing and planning crisis

An article written by our Chief Executive, Graham Biggs, featured this week in The Planner and a copy of the article is shown below The government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda will need...

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05 May 2020

Health and Social Care Blog

by Kerry Booth – Rural Services Network Assistant Chief Executive Who could have foreseen when I wrote the last Health and Social Care Spotlight (February 2020) the situation we would...

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30 Sep 2019

Local Government First Article – Time for a Rural Strategy

The Rural Services Network featured in this months Local Government First with an article about the Time for a Rural Strategy campaign Cllr Cecilia Motley (Con) is Chair of the...

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