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The RSN has joined a coalition of businesses, charities and consumer groups to issue an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, urging for the protection of cash as a critical payment method for both consumers and businesses....
A new policy is to be introduced which will ensure that the ‘vast majority of people and businesses’ will be no further than three miles away from a place where they can withdraw cash. In a statement, the government...
The below blog is written for The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) by Jeremy Leggett, policy advisor at ACRE The Fidelity Fiduciary App… If Michael Banks in ‘Mary Poppins’, were to wisely invest his tuppence in...
The National Federation of SubPostmasters (NFSP) has called on Government to reverse its decision to remove DVLA services from the Post Office network from the end of March next year. The NFSP says the changes will put many Post...
Traders in Bromyard, Herefordshire, have told the BBC that the town has been left short of cash and ‘forced to travel miles with their takings’ after the last bank closed its doors. Traders in Bromyard, Herefordshire, have...
CITY A.M. report a leading charity for older people has criticised the latest tranche of bank branch closures, saying it is making banking “really difficult.” Responding to news that Lloyds and Natwest groups would be shutting a further 81 branches this...
The Yorkshire Post reports that new research by the lender Abound that estimates that just 5% of people have not withdrawn cash from an ATM in the last 12 months and that around 80% of Brits said that they took...
The Evening Standard reports that train operator, Avanti West Coast, has launched a pop-up Post Office counter inside the ticket office at Oxenholme station - the first Post Office the rural community has had since a branch closed in February...
The BBC reports that it's been a couple of months since the last bank closed its doors in Brechin Some people have hardly noticed. They moved to internet banking years ago and rarely set foot in one...
The BBC report that people are going back to cash to keep tighter control on their spending as living costs soar, according to new research by the Post Office Post offices handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals...
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Amid reduced public spending, fair resource allocation across regions is crucial. Despite a population larger than Greater London, rural areas receive significantly less funding for essential services, even though delivering these services in rural areas is more expensive.
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