Barriers to Access
The RSN campaigns to help rural residents overcome multiple access barriers to key services which includes poor transport and broadband.
11 Mar 2019
Ambulance wait times longer in rural areas
The BBC is allowing people to find out the average ambulance response times in their area, after it emerged that some rural communities have to wait more than 20 minutes...
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11 Mar 2019
Access to cash remains in serious jeopardy
Access to Cash Review welcome but free-to-access cash remains in serious jeopardy NoteMachine has today welcomed Natalie Ceeney’s Access to Cash report as critical to the debate on the future...
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11 Mar 2019
Changes to rural school transport
Parents in North Yorkshire, England’s largest county, risk losing their entitlement to free door-to-door school transport from September, according to the Yorkshire Post. The county currently spends £24.1 million per...
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04 Mar 2019
Calor offers £70,000 of funding for rural community projects
Rural community projects throughout the UK could be eligible to receive grants of up to £5,000 from home energy provider Calor. The Calor Rural Community Fund – now in its...
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04 Mar 2019
Government urged to protect rural convenience shops
Talking Retail covered the Association of Convenience Stores’ (ACS) call for the Government to ensure there is a ‘level playing field’ for the UK’s 16,944 rural convenience stores so they...
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04 Mar 2019
More than 100 rural schools get super-fast broadband
Last week the Government announced that more than 100 rural primary schools around England are set to get super-fast broadband connections in the next few months. The story was reported...
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25 Feb 2019
Rural Churches told they are no longer obliged to hold Sunday Services
Rural churches are no longer obliged to hold a weekly Sunday service, according to a report in the Daily Mail. The Church of England voted to change canon law during...
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25 Feb 2019
BT vetoes plan to fix rural mobile ‘not spots’
The Daily Mail’s This is Money website reports that BT has vetoed efforts to improve mobile coverage in rural areas because its rivals would benefit more from the arrangement. EE,...
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25 Feb 2019
Rural areas hit by house price affordability crisis
The Telegraph reports that would-be home buyers in rural areas are now paying nine times their average annual wages. The average house in England’s county areas now costs around £100,000...
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25 Feb 2019
The town with no free cash machines
The Metro ran a feature on the town of Burslem in Staffordshire, ‘where all the free cash machines have been taken away by banks’. A series of banks, including Nationwide,...
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