Rural Vulnerability
Rural residents can suffer from Rural Vulnerability, due to a combination of issues such as poor transport, lack of broadband low wages and higher than average house prices.
15 Aug 2022
Oxfordshire County Council secures £12million funding for cheaper youth bus fares, bus priority measures and rural services
Oxford Mail reports the government has awarded £12.7million of funding to Oxfordshire County Council for improvements to its bus services The funding will support cheaper fares for under-19s, new rural...
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08 Aug 2022
Countryside crime rise linked to cost-of-living crisis
The BBC report how the theft of farmers’ livestock, vehicles and fuel is on the rise due to the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, according to a new countryside crime report Rural...
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08 Aug 2022
More than half of UK households to be in fuel poverty by the new year, according to new report
The University of York reports that according to a new report by the university, more than half of households in the UK, or 15 million people, will have been pushed...
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08 Aug 2022
DLUHC consultation on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities are considering how best to update the Indices of Deprivation (IoD) from the most recent publication in 2019 It is important that...
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08 Aug 2022
Vital Somerset bus route saved by councillors after hundreds sign petition
Somerset Live reports that a vital bus route in Somerset has been saved following a successful campaign by local councillors FirstBus operates the 173 services between Wells and Bath, which...
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01 Aug 2022
Why heat pumps sum up all that is wrong with ‘net zero’
The Telegraph reports how strict planning could force households to buy heat pumps even if they do not want them They were intended to be the silver bullet that meant...
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01 Aug 2022
Shropshire rural care staff hit by rising fuel costs
BBC Shropshire reports that the rising cost of fuel is contributing to a lack of staff in rural areas, according to Shropshire carer Ash Turner Compensation for mileage no longer...
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01 Aug 2022
Selaine Saxbyn MP: To end the rural housing crisis, we must stop treating the countryside like a holiday park
Writing in Conservative Home, Conservative MP for North Devon, Selaine Saxbyn outlines her mission has always been to level up the pockets of deprivation in her ‘remote, rural and coastal’...
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27 Jul 2022
New campaign launched to support long-term free-to-air broadcast connectivity for rural audiences
A new campaign, ‘Broadcast 2040+’, has been launched to protect broadcast TV and radio through to 2040 and beyond by Arqiva – a communications infrastructure and media services company –...
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27 Jul 2022
No need for anyone to be lonely
Staffordshire-based non-profit housing provider Trent & Dove is tackling the problem of loneliness and social isolation with a new befriending service. The scheme grew out of the welfare calls and...
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