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28 May 2019
Fly-tipping is not a victimless crime
The Lord Bishop of St Albans writes in PoliticsHome.com to raise awareness of the effects of fly-tipping on the British countryside. He notes that incidents…
28 May 2019
Arrests made in county lines crackdown
The BBC reports that nearly 600 people suspected of being part of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested across the UK in an operation…
20 May 2019
Build a million homes on the Green Belt – Liz Truss MP
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss has called for one million homes to be built on Green Belt land around the country. Speaking…
20 May 2019
Councils urged to take control of bus services
The website LocalGov.co.uk reports on the news that Buses Minister Nusrat Ghani MP has written to local authorities to remind them that they have the…
20 May 2019
Scrapping HS2 would be economic disaster
Prominent business leaders and local politicians have written to the Treasury warning that failure to build the HS2 line would be a disaster for the…
13 May 2019
Rural economies being ignored
The Chair of the Lords Rural Economy Committee Lord Foster argues on the website PoliticsHome.com that successive governments have ignored rural communities, in particular in…
13 May 2019
British buses ‘failing’ compared to European services
Researchers have found that British passengers have access to a poorer bus service compared with our European neighbours, as reported by the Mirror. The study,…
13 May 2019
Rural lifestyles contribute to obesity
A new study of 112 million adults around the world found that rural lifestyles can be a major cause of the global obesity epidemic, according…
07 May 2019
Government urged to do more to tackle rural crime
Ahead of a debate on rural crime in the House of Lords, the Bishop of St Albans wrote an article on the website PoliticsHome urging…
07 May 2019
The importance of rural connectivity
Writing in LocalGov.co.uk this week, TrueSpeed Communications CEO Evan Wienburg argues for the importance of robust digital connectivity. He notes that while ‘we’re living in…
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