ELIGIBILITY for the government’s Warm Front scheme has changed, with additional benefits for successful applicants.

THE government has unveiled funding to help communities bring jobs and homes to their neighbourhood using improved planning powers.

RURAL businesses and communities are expected to be among the main beneficiaries of faster next-generation mobile broadband.

Community transport initiatives are helping connect more villages and provide a better service for local residents.

AN innovative library service has opened in a small village in Cumbria.

BETTER support is needed for rural communities to deliver their own superfast internet connections, warns a report.

VULNERABLE and older residents are to benefit from additional funding to help them live safely and independently at home. The £15,000 funding boost approved by Derbyshire County Council will support

SLOW broadband speeds, insufficient affordable housing and a lack of community involvement are among key rural concerns, reveals a major survey.

AN influential committee of MPs has criticised local government for ‘dumping’ incomprehensible spending data on residents.

RURAL people and businesses risk being left behind by the government’s broadband strategy, peers have warned. The House of Lords Communications Committee said the government was preoccupied with faster broadband