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04 Jan 2022
Transport minister on UK Government’s plans for greener transport
Local Cumberland paper The News and Star reports on comments from Transport Minister Trudy Harrison MP (Con) revealing the Government’s areas of focus for reducing…
04 Jan 2022
North Yorkshire’s rural communities need a long-term strategy
The chairman of a commission has claimed in the Yorkshire Post that deeply ingrained issues blighting rural communities will only be resolved with a long-term…
04 Jan 2022
New Economic Vision for Exmoor
A new shared vision for Exmoor’s rural economy is described as ‘forward-thinking’ and ‘progressive’ by local businesses and entrepreneurs in a new film about the initiative.…
04 Jan 2022
Here’s how drones could be used to revolutionise rural living
Country Living has published a report on the future of rural transport, where it describes how medical supplies will be dispatched by remote-controlled aircraft, villages…
04 Jan 2022
LocalGov Drupal secures further funding from the DLUHC Local Digital Fund
Government acknowledges the importance of open source and collaborative work between councils as part of the leveling up agenda project awarded £400,000 to build on…
20 Dec 2021
Local Government Finance: Provisional Settlement 2022/23
The Government published the provisional local government finance settlement for 2022-23 on 16 December 2021 A more detailed review of the proposals by the RSN’s…
20 Dec 2021
CPRE – Housing Crisis
The CPRE, (the Countryside Charity), have recently published… You often hear people talk about a housing crisis, and addressing it is something that we at…
20 Dec 2021
Why power cuts left people unable to phone for help
The BBC detail how power cuts caused by Storm Arwen have highlighted a potentially lethal problem in the home phone network’s digital transformation. Traditional landlines…
20 Dec 2021
EE to upgrade 4G in more than 2,000 rural UK areas by 2024
Computer Weekly reports UK mobile operator EE plans to upgrade its 4G infrastructure in more than 2,000 areas by June 2024 as part of the…
20 Dec 2021
YorBus rural transport scheme now has 450 users
Darlington and Stockton Times reports that the organisers of pioneering rural transport YorBus, trialling one of the country’s first on demand services, announced that there…
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