Author: <span>Richard</span>
20 Jan 2021
January Edition of Casebook – Health Funding Opportunities from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
This month’s featured funding opportunities are: UKRI UK Research and Innovation have a number of current funding calls, including: Innovate UK Smart Grants Funding is available to deliver commercially viable...
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19 Jan 2021
Launch of the 2021 RSN Seminar Programme
The Rural Services Network is delighted to launch it’s 2021 Rural Seminar Programme. Each year we provide a seminar programme to our member organisations and this year we have increased...
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18 Jan 2021
Report criticises Government rollout of revised broadband programme
Technology website, Digit, has reported this week that the plan to connect all the UK’s premises to superfast internet by 2025 has been scaled back, with critics saying even this...
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18 Jan 2021
Rural areas need a levelling-up agenda that recognises the difference between villages, towns and cities
Rosie Cooper MP (Lab) writes in Politics Home this week that countryside communities need to be protected by improving public transport in cut-off areas to ensure amenities stay accessible to...
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18 Jan 2021
Regional leaders describe Northern transport budget cuts as ‘levelling down’
Business news publishing platform Marketing Stockport has reported on calls from regional leaders following the Government’s plans to reduce funding for a number of transport initiatives across Northern England, with...
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18 Jan 2021
Cornwall ‘faces losing £1bn of visitor spending’
The BBC report Cornwall faces losing £1bn of spending by visitors over 14 months because of coronavirus, tourism bosses say Visit Cornwall head Malcolm Bell said the projected loss, estimated...
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18 Jan 2021
Starlink launches satellite internet in rural UK
Telecommunications news website Light Reading has reported that Ofcom has approved Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite network for a licence to install user terminals in Britain Starlink, which consists of...
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18 Jan 2021
5,500 public sector organisations will gain access to local data
Open Access Government has reported that over 5,500 public sector organisations now have access to Ordnance Survey information, as part of the Geospatial Commission’s Public Sector Geospatial Agreement The Ordnance...
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18 Jan 2021
Hinterland – 18 January 2021
In Hinterland this week, village halls, food security, broadband, Cornwall and communes… * * * Rural charities to celebrate 100 years of village halls Great to see that notwithstanding all...
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11 Jan 2021
Ultra-fast broadband for rural areas has been abandoned, MPs warn
Newspapers, including The Times, the Financial Times and The Guardian, have reported that rural areas could be locked out of having cutting-edge gigabit broadband for years because of a litany...
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