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27 Jul 2022

Rural and Coastal Areas Facing Serious Health Challenges

Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation, Health Education England A combination of worsening health, ageing populations, social deprivation, and workforce staffing issues are…

27 Jul 2022

Rural & Homeless – From a Horsebox to a Home

Hear the story of 52-year-old Sally, who was made redundant from her home on a farm where she worked: I loved my house, and I…

27 Jul 2022

Pub is The Hub working with creative arts organisation to help encourage pubs to become local hubs for creativity

Pub is The Hub, www.pubisthehub.org.uk, teamed up with voluntary arts organisation Creative Lives, www.creative-lives.org, and CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale), for an online event to…

27 Jul 2022

“Are you thinking about suicide?”

By Fiona Bone, Suicide Prevention Lead at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust Asking directly is absolutely the right thing to do if you are worried…

25 Jul 2022

Advance funding starts in England to help struggling farms

Farmers Weekly has reported that, in light of the cashflow crisis facing many agricultural business, the Rural Payments Agency has announced that farmers in England…

25 Jul 2022

Investment in TransPennine Route Upgrade trebled to over £9.bn

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has announced funding for the TransPennine Route Upgrades has trebled from £2.9billion to £9billion The TransPennine Route upgrades and Northern…

25 Jul 2022

Changes to Help to Grow: Digital

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have announced some key improvements from the 25th July to the Help to Grow: Digital scheme,…

25 Jul 2022

Three expands 5G to rural areas

Operator Three UK has revealed its 5G mobile network has expanded to 86 new locations across the UK, including rural areas such as Dartmouth As…

18 Jul 2022

Rural communities discriminated against for being digitally isolated

Business Cheshire report how rural based business communities risk being “left behind” and “isolated” because they have to put up with third-rate connectivity services, a Cheshire…

18 Jul 2022

Boom in elderly in rural areas ‘increasing pressure on social care services’

The Evening Standard reports analysis by the County Council Network (CCN) revealed that the number of over-65s living in county and rural areas has increased…