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19 Oct 2020
Plan for UK shops to offer cashback without a purchase
The Guardian reports on new proposals from the Treasury designed to safeguard accessibility to cash, which could mean shops would have to offer cashback even…
19 Oct 2020
City dwellers idealise Britain’s countryside, but there’s no escaping rural poverty
The Guardian’s social policy editor argues that the pandemic has ‘exacerbated’ inequality in rural areas, and calls for a COVID-19 recovery strategy that ‘integrates town…
19 Oct 2020
Britain’s historic houses are, for the most part, safe — that is not true of the countryside
Former chairman of the National Trust Simon Jenkins writes in Country Life that the Trust is failing in its conservation obligation to the countryside He…
19 Oct 2020
Rural Lens Review of Plan for Jobs – Protecting, supporting and creating jobs
The Government has put in place a range of measures, unprecedented in recent times and amounting to approaching £300 billion to address the impact of…
12 Oct 2020
12/10/2020 – RSN Rural Economy Group Meeting
Date: 12th October 2020 Subject: Rural EconomyChair: Councillor Cecilia Motley, Shropshire CouncilHosted: Online Event via Zoom – To download the agenda and papers associated for…
12 Oct 2020
Improving local bus services in England (outside London)
A report released on the 2nd October 2020 from the National Audit Office (NAO) finds that, despite the Department for Transport’s long stated aim to…
12 Oct 2020
Government criticised for northern lock downs
Several newspapers, including the Mirror and the Telegraph, have criticised the Government’s COVID-19 restrictions in the north as being unfair, when infection rates in some…
12 Oct 2020
New COVID-19 rules could hit jobs in rural areas
The Press & Journal report how the short-term Covid-19 restrictions that have recently come into force could have long-term impacts on rural areas, including job…
12 Oct 2020
UK house prices expected to be higher in a year despite crisis
Yahoo Finance reports that estate agents are predicting house prices to be higher in a year’s time despite the economic crisis, with new figures suggesting…
12 Oct 2020
Greater Anglia looks to communities to boost local rail services
The East Anglian Daily Times reports that volunteers who work with rail operator Greater Anglia to promote rural services have worked together to try to…
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