Author: <span>Philip Cornish</span>
02 Jul 2014
Top awards for community enterprises
FIVE community shops and one co-operative pub have won prestigious awards from the Plunkett Foundation. The six winners of their first ever UK Rural Community Ownership Awards were announced at...
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30 Jun 2014
Rural people ‘pushed out of countryside’
RURAL areas are becoming some of the least affordable places to live in the country, says a report. People living and working in the countryside are being pushed out, as...
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29 Jun 2014
BBC rural coverage has ‘urban bias’
The BBC is to change its rural affairs coverage after a review found it tackled too many issues from an urban perspective. Commissioned by the BBC Trust, the independent review...
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29 Jun 2014
Royal Mail: Competition threat to deliveries
UNFETTERED competition threatens to end regular daily postal deliveries to rural areas, Royal Mail has warned. The recently privatised firm has called for an immediate review of the issue and...
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27 Jun 2014
Minister backs flood alleviation work
RURAL affairs secretary Owen Paterson visited Wiltshire to reaffirm the government’s support for local efforst to improve flood alleviation. Mr Paterson travelled to Trowbridge where he met officials from Wiltshire...
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25 Jun 2014
Businesses canvassed on rural funding
BUSINESSES in rural Lincolnshire are being asked to share their thoughts on future grant-funded projects in their community. Engagement events held around the county are giving local people the chance...
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25 Jun 2014
Reduction in GP funding puts entire NHS at risk, BMA conference to hear
Below is a snippet from article take from the Guardian: Patients are being put at risk by “brutal disinvestment” in general practice and are now often waiting two weeks for...
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23 Jun 2014
Planning for Britain’s rural future
Are planning reforms breathing new life into rural communities or bringing them into battle over unwanted development? Jessica Sellick Investigates. In his ‘Review of Rural Economy and Affordable Housing’, Matthew...
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23 Jun 2014
‘Village shops outperform supermarkets’
Community-owned shops are often performing better than major supermarket chains, says a rural review of the sector. Launched by the Plunkett Foundation on Friday (20 June), the study says 2013...
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23 Jun 2014
Competition to find best high streets
THE government has launched a national competition to find Britain’s best high streets. Local government minister Brandon Lewis launched the Great British High Street Awards amid new evidence showing that...
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