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17 Dec 2018
RSN RESPONSE – Provisional Settlement
RSN response to Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement The Rural Services Network has long campaigned for fairer funding for rural areas and it today welcomed the…
17 Dec 2018
Cancer mortality rates higher in rural areas
Living in a rural area means a patient is 5 per cent more likely to die of cancer than a city dweller, according to a…
17 Dec 2018
Worst broadband blackspots revealed
Greenmeadows Park in Gloucestershire has been revealed as the UK’s slowest residential street for broadband, according to a survey by USwitch. The road, in the…
17 Dec 2018
Lessons for rural transport provision
Rural bus services have suffered as funding pressures have grown, but there is good practice and evidence of what works out there, finds Brian Wilson.…
12 Dec 2018
Podcast Episode – The village with no bus and no shop
Carole Walker, is a former political news correspondent with the BBC. She has developed her own Podcast called ‘The View from Here’ and has kindly…
11 Dec 2018
Analysis of the Annual Population Survey Personal Well-being dataset: 2011/12 – 2017/18
Through the answers given to four questions taken from the Annual Population Survey it is possible to gauge levels of life satisfaction, happiness, estimates of…
10 Dec 2018
Funding of adult social care inquiry
The Rural Services APPG has for some months been carrying out an Inquiry into the future funding of Adult Social Care in the rural context.…
10 Dec 2018
Cuts in street lights warning
Councils are switching off street lights in an attempt to make savings, according to The Times, with Devon county council even advising residents to use…
10 Dec 2018
Council spending woes
The BBC has published data detailing the extent of council cuts since 2010. The statistics show that in England councils spend most on education, followed…
10 Dec 2018
Young people’s loneliness experiences
The ONS has conducted its first study around loneliness among people aged 10 to 24. The results, covered by the BBC, found that young people…
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