Access to Services
13 Dec 2012
How Remoteness Affects Choice and Access to Goods and Services
This report by the Office of Fair Trading (2012) examines issues of prices, internet, delivery, road fuels and public transport in the context of remote communities. Price and Choices...
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13 Dec 2012
A Minimum Income Standard for Rural Households
Published in November 2010 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this report shows that the minimum cost of living in rural areas is greater that in urban areas. The additional costs...
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13 Dec 2012
State of the Countryside Report (CRC 2010) Section2.3 Access to Services
Amongst other information this shows a 22.8% decrease in the number of petrol filling stations located in rural areas between 2000 and 2010 and a 9% decrease in the number...
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09 Dec 2012
Red diesel cleared for gritting roads
FARMERS can use red diesel in their tractors to help grit and clear snow from public roads during extreme weather, the government has confirmed. Under normal rules any vehicle used...
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06 Dec 2012
Council freezes cost of social housing
A LOCAL authority has agreed to keep the cost of new affordable housing at the same rate. South Lakeland District Council in Cumbria said it was freezing the cost of...
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05 Dec 2012
New support to help revive villages
RURAL communities are set to benefit from a new injection of funding to help revive their villages through community enterprise. It comes after the Plunkett Foundation teamed up with long-term...
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02 Dec 2012
Rural Health Network launched
HEALTH professionals and eminent academics convened in Nottingham for the birth of the new Rural Health Network. It will enable health professionals to effectively share best practice, innovation, learning and...
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25 Nov 2012
Budget cuts threaten communities
PRESSURE on public funding threatens to put rural communities at risk when it comes to fire and rescue services, warns a report. The annual State of Rural Public Services report...
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22 Nov 2012
Green light for UK broadband projects
BRUSSELS has agreed that the government can be granted state aid approval to roll out faster internet connections across the countryside. The decision sets the principles against which all individual...
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