Rural Business
Our work on Local Government Finance is split into two areas, the Fairer Funding campaign and a financial analysis of local authority budgets.
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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25 Feb 2019
Scheme launched to help protect rural shops
Lloyds and Visa are trialling a scheme to pay retailers that offer cashback to customers, according to City A.M. The scheme, has been introduced to protect rural shops, which have...
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11 Feb 2019
The State of Rural Services Report launched in Parliament
Basic mobile calls are not possible across main networks in a third of rural homes. The report also finds that rural residents are losing out as bus services are scrapped....
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03 Dec 2018
The post-Brexit countryside plans
Five hundred farmers and rural businesses met in Westminster on Thursday 28 November to discuss post-Brexit countryside plans with Environment Secretary Michael Gove, as reported by the Darlington and Stockton...
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19 Nov 2018
Calls for action over bank closures
The Banking Standards Board (BSB) has spoken out to say that small businesses suffer the most from the closure of bank branches and that British banks need to work together...
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19 Nov 2018
Two-thirds of UK bank branches lost
New analysis from Which? suggests that nearly two thirds of the UK’s bank branches have closed over the past 30 years, the Mirror reports. Parliamentary records show that in 1988...
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12 Nov 2018
High street crisis intensifies
An average of 14 high street shops are closing every day, with only 1.569 new shops opening in the period between January and June 2018, an historic low. According to...
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16 Jul 2018
Experts panel seeks to revitalise high streets
The government has appointed a panel of experts to help revitalise and overcome the challenges facing Britain’s high streets. Chaired by Sir John Timpson, chairman of retail chain Timpsons, the...
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16 Oct 2017
‘Unique’ rural plan champions potential
Northumberland County Council is spearheading a new initiative to ensure rural areas have a voice in the UK’s economic future. The local authority, in collaboration with Durham University’s Institute of Local...
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09 Oct 2017
Internet giant spurs rural jobs growth
Internet giant Amazon is helping Britain’s rural businesses double their revenue growth, suggests a survey. Small and medium sized rural businesses that export forecast double the revenue growth of those...
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