Author: <span>Philip Cornish</span>
06 Nov 2013
Biodiversity plan must be ‘made to work’
BUILDERS could offset the environmental impact of their developments by paying farmers to create rural wildlife habitats. Landowners said government plans to introduce so-called biodiversity offsetting must be made to...
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06 Nov 2013
Plan to boost Wheels to Work
LOCAL authorities are being urged to complete a survey about schemes that lends mopeds to rural people who need to access employment, education and training. ‘Wheels 2 Work’ is a...
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05 Nov 2013
Arts funding ‘biased towards cities’
RURAL communities are being further disadvantaged by the allocation of arts funding, say campaigners. London receives £69 per head of populations (php) while some rural areas may only be receiving...
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05 Nov 2013
Equality and Health Inequalities Draft Strategy
A draft of the NHS England Equality and Health Inequalities Strategy is being finalised and a current copy of this can be viewed by clicking here. The Strategy has...
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05 Nov 2013
VIDEO: Rural rebellion over ‘unfair’ funding
MORE than 25 MPs attended parliament to present petitions calling on the government to grant fairer funding for rural areas. The petitions were delivered on Monday, 4 November. MP Graham...
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05 Nov 2013
Our ageist NHS is failing the people who need it most
Below is a snippet from article take from The Telegraph: It’s a scandal that taxpayer money has been funnelled away from older people in rural areas, writes Jesse Norman. (To...
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05 Nov 2013
MPs pile on pressure over rural funding
MORE than 100 petitions calling for fairer rural funding have been presented by MPs to the government. The cross-party group of MPs formally presented petitions from 119 rural constituencies to...
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03 Nov 2013
Is death of rural communities inevitable?
ACADEMIC experts and the public are to debate the precarious status of Britain’s rural communities. Hosted by Lincoln University, the event will consider the changing shape of rurality in the...
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31 Oct 2013
Rent deal will ‘boost social housing’
LINKING rent increases to inflation will help boost affordable house-building, claims the government. The deal will give a decade of strong protection for social tenants with the cost of living,...
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31 Oct 2013
Help us shape countryside, says DEFRA
THE government is asking how best to spend almost £20bn that will help shape the countryside over the next seven years. It said the future of farming, the rural economy...
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