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08.10.2018
The Times reports on calls from the Tesco boss for a two per cent tax on goods sold online to support ‘bricks-and-mortar’ retailers. Dave Lewis, Tesco’s chief executive, said an online sales tax would raise roughly £1.25 billion and...
08.10.2018
The Sunday Times Magazine featured a long article on the increasing importance of voters living in towns across Britain. It highlighted the feeling of disempowerment that has been growing in towns around the UK embodied in the EU referendum...
08.10.2018
The Daily Mail reported on Public Health England data collected over the last year from 151 hospitals showing that rural trusts have, on average, the fewest cases of E.Coli infections. Salisbury in Wiltshire, Weston Area Health in Somerset and...
08.10.2018
Managers of an Oxfordshire NHS trust have called for GPs to have extra training on how to perform caesarean sections, the Independent reports. According to the Independent, to address shortages of obstetricians, health chiefs are considering modelling trusts on...
08.10.2018
The Local Government Association has rejected calls for a nationwide standardised recycling system saying that ‘no one size would work’. The charity Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) highlighted that there are currently 150 different local waste management systems, arguing it...
08.10.2018
08 October 2018 Below is an RSN review of last week's rural related politics as well as a look forward to the week ahead: Last week in politics (1 - 5 October) On Monday, Culture Secretary...
01.10.2018
Speaking at a Labour fringe event at conference last week, Plymouth MP and Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities Luke Pollard warned about the danger of assuming that urban areas are worst hit by austerity and believing that Conservatives...
01.10.2018
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Rebecca Long-Bailey MP was interviewed by the Eastern Daily Press during the Labour Party Conference about plans to protect rural bank branches. She said a Labour Government would hand...
01.10.2018
The Guardian and several trade outlets reported on the appointment of David Rutley MP as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The Government confirmed that Rutley’s brief covers the Department’s preparedness for...
01.10.2018
Blewbury in Oxfordshire, a small village with a population of just 1,581, has launched its own app to allow residents to share updates, comments and message each other. Matt Phillips, a Blewbury local, worked with the media company Disciple...
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Public Sector Funding
The RSN demands fairer funding from Central Government who have historically and systematically underfunded rural areas.
Barriers to Access
The RSN campaigns to help rural residents overcome multiple access barriers to key services which includes poor transport and broadband.
Future of Rural Areas
The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.
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The RSN wants to ensure rural communities have the same access to health care as is currently received in urban areas.
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Tackling a collection of circumstances which leaves many rural residents vulnerable is a key issue for the RSN.
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