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10 Jan 2022

Hinterland – 10 January 2022

2022 starts at pace with: housebuilding, omicron, online meetings, windfall taxes, celebrity restaurants and archeologically themed badgers. Its good to be in touch again!!! *         *          * Sort out housebuilding...

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13 Dec 2021

Hinterland – 13 December 2021

In Hinterland this week: the sad challenge of cyclists on rural roads, the impact of rural policy on the landscape of rural England, fly tipping and some very depression side...

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Rural Economy Spotlight – December 2021
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06 Dec 2021

Rural Economy Spotlight – December 2021

A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network highlighting a selection of current rural economic development news, issues and opportunities Government plans to phase out fossil...

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29 Nov 2021

Hinterland – 29 November 2021

The weather tells me it is definitely beginning to feel like Christmas – 3 and a bit weeks out from it! In Hinterland this week – brownfield land exhortations, sewage...

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15 Nov 2021

Hinterland – 15 November 2021

In Hinterland this week – remembrance, COP’s rural implications, budget slight of hand to give rural areas a lesser deal in the successor to EU funding, hospitals at bursting point,...

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28 Oct 2021

October 2021 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight

Welcome to the October 2021 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight Autumn is well and truly upon us. In this edition we showcase best practice undertaken by our member organisations, across the...

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25 Oct 2021

Hinterland – 25 October 2021

In Hinterland this week – I feel a frenetic pace of activity and expectation on the cusp of the budget planned for Wednesday. County lines, supermarkets, cash machines, rent rises,...

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Spotlight on Rural Housing – October 2021
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11 Oct 2021

Spotlight on Rural Housing – October 2021

A quarterly bulletin facilitated by your membership of the Rural Services Network and produced in partnership with the Rural Housing Alliance, highlighting a selection of current rural housing issues and...

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11 Oct 2021

Hinterland – 11 October 2021

In Hinterland this week – the lure of the coast and its manifest challenges in terms of sustainable living. Labour dreams of rural proofing and the Health Secretaries need to...

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27 Sep 2021

Hinterland – 27 September 2021

In Hinterland this week – food shortages, farm security, digital connectivity closing the gap, controversial street lights and finally the big bad rewilded wolf… *         *          * U.K. to Probe...

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