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30.09.2019
The Rural Services Network featured in this months Local Government First with an article about the Time for a Rural Strategy campaign Cllr Cecilia Motley (Con) is Chair of the Rural Services Network and Shropshire County Council’s Rural Issues...
30.09.2019
The future of the bus report was produced by the Campaign for Better Transport a few weeks ago. They welcome the Government announcement today that it intends to deliver on their core recommendations to produce a National Bus Strategy. ...
30.09.2019
A polling expert has advised the Labour Party to target EU remainers to win back support in rural areas Joe Twyman, of polling firm Deltapoll, was speaking at a National Farmers Union fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference...
30.09.2019
The chief executive of the Centre for Cities, Andrew Carter, argues in a piece in The MJ this week that the best way to protect high streets is to create well-paid jobs. He acknowledges Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan’s announcement...
30.09.2019
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to be handed further power and funding in order to meet national climate change targets, according to the website, Public Sector Executive. 230 councils across England and Wales have declared...
30.09.2019
ITV reports that a farmer is lobbying to keep her farm in Scotland as an official black spot to attract tourists wishing to go ‘off-grid’. Owners of the farm have asked authorities to prevent the introduction of 3G, 4G...
30.09.2019
30 September 2019 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 (23 September - 29 September) On Thursday 26,...
23.09.2019
A Report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee published last week has highlighted the continuing digital divide between urban and rural areas. The Inquiry into Rural only Digital and Broadband services took evidence from a number...
23.09.2019
The Prime Minister has lent his support to a local Wolverhampton campaign to protest against plans to build 1,300 homes on green belt land. The Express and Star reports that Boris Johnson met with Stuart Anderson, the Conservative parliamentary candidate...
23.09.2019
New analysis by Which? demonstrates that free-to-use cash machines are vanishing more quickly in deprived areas. ITV covers the news that nine per cent of free cash machines across the UK had closed or become fee-paying during the 17 months...
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