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- 'Landmark' boost for homes and jobs
- Defra website moves to gov.uk
- Give rural councils fair share - MPs
- Network steps up pressure over funding
- Rural economy review 'is working'
- Call to amend infrastructure bill
- MPs rally for fairer rural funding
- 'Rural rebellion against spending cuts'
- Rural areas hit hardest by council cuts
- Defra still 'developing' rural proofing
- Rural fears ahead of Autumn Statement
- Rural Statement lacks lustre, MPs told
- New rural strategy for east Yorkshire
- Council backs minister on wind farms
- Inquiry asks: What next for localism?
- Finance settlement now later still
- Minister targets illegal travellers sites
- Finance settlement is later this year
- Mixed reaction to Rural Statement
- Rural Statement unveiled at last
- Boost rural economy, Defra urged
- New minister pledges fairer rural deal
- MPs urged to improve 'rural proofing'
- Rural policy under the spotlight
- Rural statement postponed until autumn
- MPs made patrons of rural campaign
- Plan for fairer rural funding unveiled
- 'No plan' to extend Defra questions
- Government unveils Defra priorities
- Watchdog slams regional growth fund
- Plan to overhaul local audits
- MP: Remember rural communities
- Rural networks are 'bringing benefits'
- MPs call for fairer rural deal
- MPs debate support for rural areas
- Three more rural networks unveiled
- Planning framework unveiled at last
- Little rural cheer from latest Budget
- 'Thousands of jobs' from rural growth
- Vacancies for Defra advisors
- Retain rural watchdog, say Lib Dems
- Roadshow helps shape rural policy
- MPs fight for fairer rural funding
- Map reveals rural network areas
- Networks to shape rural policies
- Government to review rural formula
- £165m rural growth review unveiled
- Localism ‘doomed’ unless Whitehall changes
- Save village shops, urges minister
- Campaign to end rural funding deficit
- Rural council urges rate rethink
- Government targets rural growth
- Rural broadband plan 'unambitious'
- Defra to improve access to ministers
- Anger as Defra question time cut
- Action on fuel tops Budget agenda
- Labour to review rural challenges
- Funding 'unfair' for rural areas
- Defra permanent secretary named
- Calls mount for fuel duty stabiliser
- Forest U-turn 'won't mean other cuts'
- Cameron relaunches his Big Society
- Court rules on regional strategies
- Defra confirms budget cut details
- Localism 'must support rural growth'
- Councillors 'free' to back local issues
- 2011: a challenging year for services
- Government unveils Localism Bill
- Top civil servant to leave DEFRA
- Website reveals government plans
- Rural warning over Big Society
- Government's 'bonfire of quangos'
- Tories slam Labour's rural record
- Labour shadow cabinet unveiled
- 'Time has come' for local councils
- Secret deal on rural spending
- Axe looms over rural agencies
- Rural commission outlines priorities
- Network welcomes rural agenda
- Watchdog unveils rural agenda
- 'Do or die' for rural England
- Confirmed: Regional offices axed
- Axe falls on 36 more Defra bodies
- Life goes on, insists watchdog
- Axe falls on rural watchdog
- Council league tables abolished
- Peerage for rural campaigner
- Spending slashed by £6.25bn
- Coalition pledge on broadband
- Big challenges for new ministers
- Cameron warned on spending cuts
- Tory MP wins rural affairs portfolio
- Remember rural, politicians urged
- Election 2010: The key rural seats
- Labour unveils rural manifesto
- Lib Dems launch rural manifesto
- Rural TV debate postponed
- Tory plan to reform public services
- Lib Dems pledge ‘fair rural deal’
- Government ditches stealth taxes
- Five key issues for rural England
- Funding 'bias' against rural areas
- Defra told to save almost £200m
- Labour pledge on rural services
- ELECTION 2010: TV debate on rural affairs
- Rural needs are 'misunderstood'
- Equality Bill 'threatens services'
- Politicians rewarded for rural work
- Tories dismiss rural fuel tax fears
- MPs discuss 'vital' rural services
- Warning over rural spending cuts
- Rural recognition in New Year list
- Tory call to respect rural services
- Tories pledge new rural approach
- Guidelines improve rural proofing
- Coalition demands new rural vision
- Lib Dems back parish councils
- Lib Dem pledge on rural services
- Revealed: how to improve rural life
- Local councils 'key to regeneration'
- Tories launch rural policy website
- Little change forecast under Tories
- ‘Profound challenges’ of recession
- Tories launch rural manifesto
- Think-tank calls for regional powers
- Minister puts faith in 'people power'
- No fuel payments for wealthy pensioners?
- Brown ducks question on rural housing
- Rural proofing to be strengthened
- Alliance: Improve rural services
- Plan to reduce rural speed limits
- Budget offers rural hope, says watchdog
- Budget targets rural retreats
- Hopes and fears for 'green' budget
- Minister's pledge on rural broadband
- Government 'failing the rural economy'
- Ministers plan to cut rural speed limit
- Campaign seeks to save rural pubs
- Benn: Rural business vital to economy
- 'Rising star' made Tory rural spokesman
- Tory pledge to improve broadband
- Job losses hit rural counties hard
- Defra 'marginalises' rural communities
- Housing policies under the spotlight
- Gordon Brown clips Defra's wings
- Defra mismanaged annual budget - MPs
- A new agenda for rural Britain
- Watchdog gears up for party conferences
- 'Tell minister about impact of slowdown'
- Regions tighten belts as economy slows
- Minister's pledge on affordable housing
- People power plan 'should go further'
- Government unveils 'people power' plan
- Radical reform for local government
- Lib Dems launch rural fuel tax campaign
- PM told to convene urgent rural summit
- Government fails to meet key rural target
- Cameron outlines vision for countryside
- Former minister slams Post Office closures
- Rural areas 'coping well' with immigration
- Furore over impact of migrant workers
- Government policies 'doomed to failure'
- Budget 2008: Fuel duty rise postponed
- Budget 2008: Reaction at a glance
- Budget 2008: More affordable homes
- Will the Budget benefit rural communities?
- MPs endorse call for urgent rural action
- Call for action to support rural England
- Government defends record on housing
- Tory leader speaks out on rural services
- MPs probe post office closure plans
- £3.9bn funding boost for rural England
- Tories lambast Defra's performance
- Ministers told to rural-proof policies
- Get tough on second homes, PM told
- Government 'disregards' rural issues
- Rural dismay at planning proposals
- Queen's speech sets out PM's plans
- Watchdog enters fray on immigrants
- MP's campaign against postal closures
- £10.2bn boost for affordable homes
- Lib Dems warn of two-tier countryside
- Chancellor to unveil spending plans
- PM: Britain must cherish countryside
- Tory blueprint to 'rebuild rural trust'
- Watchdog to probe summer of misery
- Watchdog welcomes housing pledge
- Countryside 'vital' to proper education
- More views sought on South Downs
- Brown urged to promote countryside
- Hilary Benn is new Defra secretary
- Lib Dems unveil rural manifesto
- PM Brown says homes are priority
- Tories to launch rural policy review
- MP calls for rural refund over digital TV
- Red tape - strangling rural development'
- Rural advocate wins second term
- Urban renaissance priority - Miliband
- Government sets up housing group
- Planning proposals 'ignore' local people
- Local councillors out of touch - study
- Union calls for action on rural schools
- Economy 'key to rural regeneration'
- More schools under threat - Lib Dems
- Council postpones school closures
- Councils warned over school closures
- Spending review ignores rural affairs
- Rural strategy for Buckinghamshire
- Hundreds of schools 'face closure'
- Regional policy lacks clarity - MPs
- Online petition wins little support
- Economy
- Rural economy potential 'overlooked'
- Rural youngsters 'must leave for jobs'
- Call to reduce VAT for rural tourism
- Tourism boost from major TV series
- £20m rural training scheme unveiled
- Council in £1m rural growth boost
- Farm Stay puts £3.5bn into rural economy
- Collaboration is 'key for rural business'
- Rising confidence in rural business
- Economic indicators largely unchanged
- Rural business 'crucial' to LEP success
- Rural residents face costly commute
- Growth network to 'create 500 jobs'
- Warning of 'two-speed' rural economy
- £1.5m available in rural East Lindsey
- £300k grants for rural businesses
- Farming: much-loved but misunderstood
- £3.5m boost for rural growth network
- Revealed: Top 10 digital trailblazers
- Drop in confidence hits rural economy
- Study probes rural business performance
- Wet summer costs rural economy £240m
- New life for old rural buildings
- Rural retailers slam shops strategy
- Digital divide bad for rural business
- South-west showcase for business
- Rural grant scheme oversubscribed
- Study set to revitalise cod fishing
- Rural broadband fund reopens
- Rural economic growth 'remains fragile'
- Petrol 'more pressing than broadband'
- 'Don't miss rural grant deadline'
- Grants 'boost 1000 rural businesses'
- £250k for rural business in Oxfordshire
- £20m for rural business scheme
- £60m rural fund open for business
- 'Life-changing' rural grants launched
- New grants to boost rural economy
- Further potential for rural tourism
- Support needed for rural business
- £15m to revitalise rural economy
- High street revival plan praised
- Rural watchdog in call for evidence
- Towns face fight for customers
- Countryside undervalued - survey
- Rural tourism 'worth billions'
- Council calls for fairer rural funding
- Growth review targets rural economy
- High street review wins rural backing
- Gloucestershire joins LEP network
- Business leader blasts Localism Bill
- Cuts 'threaten rural economies'
- Rural welcome for red tape review
- Rural leader rails against localism
- Countryside 'priced out of business'
- Hundreds apply for regional funding
- Another LEP unveiled for north-east
- Concern voiced over impact of LEPs
- 'Unfair' tax will hurt rural economy
- Ministers unveil three more LEPs
- Watchdog: LEPS must 'listen to rural'
- Leaders welcome planning pledge
- Unveiled: Plan for local growth
- LEPs: Rural winners and losers
- Motorists hit by fuel duty hike
- "Vital need for faster rural growth
- Ministers examine LEP proposals
- Rural recovery at risk, says report
- Barriers hamper rural recovery
- Loyal customers boost rural firms
- £1bn fund to 'ease impact of cuts'
- City plans to boost rural economy
- Planning rules 'stifling economy'
- Rural jobless on the increase
- £50m to help economic recovery
- Fragile recovery for rural economy
- Rural lobby opposes planning levy
- Experts sign up for rural revival
- Charity warning over towns fund
- Residents to scrutinise services
- ‘Christmas bonus’ for rural towns
- Study probes workspace needs
- £1.5m more for rural north-east
- Government to tax holiday homes
- Park urged to boost rural economy
- Watchdog probes recession impact
- Rural economy faces green pressure
- Market town wins European funding
- Stakeholders debate impact of recession
- Rural jobs hope amid recession
- Business centre creates 100 jobs
- Scheme to defer business rates
- Rural estates 'vital' to economy
- Study probes barriers to business
- Six people chasing every rural job
- Business leaders unveil manifesto
- Rural role 'vital' during recovery
- Call to speed up rural grants
- £2.5m for business in rural north-east
- £5m boost for rural West Midlands
- Help for recession-hit rural business
- £4.7m enterprise hub for rural business
- Plan to revitalise rural Merseyside
- Rural economy looks to positive future
- Rural firms call for budget boost
- Tourists 'reluctant to visit countryside'
- Minister pledges to support rural skills
- Planning reforms 'ignore' rural needs
- 'Action needed to save market towns'
- Rural programme unveiled in Cumbria
- £4.5m skills project for East Anglia
- Planning service scoops national award
- Firms welcome £3bn business fund
- £10m for eastern region businesses
- Councils seek to ease impact of downturn
- Firms urged to apply for rural funding
- Rural employees 'suffer low pay'
- Confidence higher in rural economy
- Rural projects win £30m funding boost
- Milestone for rural enterprise fund
- Praise for rural broadband initiative
- Leaders welcome 'lifeline' for firms
- Rural residents are 'spenders not savers'
- £600k project to help rural people find jobs
- County council offers grants to rural firms
- Business grant for rural West Midlands
- Rural areas suffer as cities flourish
- Help for firms hit by Post Office closures
- Package targets rural business in Cumbria
- £2.6m boost for island's economy
- Countryside 2008: Better for business
- Rural tourists urged to stay a while longer
- £200k for redundant rural buildings
- £1.2m training boost for rural business
- Countryside is top holiday destination
- Rural experts bolster north-east economy
- Fears of rural labour shortage deepen
- Supermarket report is 'missed opportunity'
- Countryside is a 'creative powerhouse'
- Business scheme hits £1m milestone
- Call for support as rural firms struggle
- Regeneration scheme extended in Somerset
- Rural craft hub opens for business
- Experts assess impact of slowdown
- More people holiday in the countryside
- Teamwork 'vital' to scheme success
- Flagship rural project to close its doors
- New funding for rural business network
- Migrants 'crucial' to rural economy
- Planning rules 'thwart Lakeland economy'
- Rural broadband is unreliable, say firms
- Grants go online in West Midlands
- Rural women enhance business skills
- £600m rural fund opens for business
- Rural accolade for responsible firms
- Rural technology 'worse than India'
- Tax changes 'bad for rural business'
- Support migrants, says think tank
- Businesses back banking campaign
- Migration brings challenges - minister
- Help us finish report, says watchdog
- Businesses seek virus compensation
- Village shops slam competition report
- Supermarkets 'don't hurt small shops'
- Productivity drive targets rural firms
- Migrant workers 'vital' to countryside
- £12.5m for foot-and-mouth farmers
- Probe into Yorkshire's rural economy
- Flood recovery scheme reaches £1m
- 'Brighter future' beckons for Cumbria
- Mixed outlook for rural office rents
- £1m cash boost for rural tourism
- £1.6m for business in rural north-east
- £10,000 for top rural entrepreneur
- Funds for rural workspace in Cumbria
- £2m boost for business in Devon
- Rural zone attracts £13m investment
- Closure plan for rural job centres
- Rural broadband 'not up to speed'
- Remote firms finally get broadband
- £6m rural business centre for Devon
- Opportunities for business in Sussex
- Campaign seeks to woo rural tourists
- Sharp rise in market town jobless
- Call for evidence of economic downturn
- Defra faces £1 billion budget crisis
- Rural areas are top for business
- New tax 'will hit rural areas hard'
- Community
- Rural crimefighters could win £1000
- Rural statistics paint mixed picture
- £20m homeless fund opens for bids
- Rural fund opens for applications
- BBC faces 'rural impartiality' review
- Revealed: best rural places to live
- Village shops reduce rural isolation
- New programme for neighbourhood plans
- Winter takes heavy toll on rural roads
- Rural charity chief to retire
- Prince's concern for rural communities
- Councils bid to ease housing challenge
- Council fightback against rural crime
- New Homes Bonus reaches £1.3bn
- Awards highlight community shops
- Benefits shake-up hits rural families
- Reduced fuel duty for remote areas?
- MPs to debate rural speed limit
- Wet weather fund hits £450k
- Councils 'set to build fewer houses'
- Neighbourhood plan makes history
- Rural families face higher living costs
- Rural road safety campaign launched
- Crime warning as nights get darker
- Affordable housing target 'on track'
- Rural film receives TV debut
- Controversy over village green plan
- Communities are 'more vulnerable'
- Report highlights rural housing needs
- Over 100 bids for community fund
- Clampdown on crime hailed a success
- Cash boost for rural communities
- Countryside fund open for applications
- Rural homes are less affordable
- Rural residents 'happier than urban'
- Village SOS - deadline looms
- Planning package 'must go further'
- 'Flawed' plan to sell social housing
- 'Rural Oscars' open for nominations
- Rural funding available in East Sussex
- Fighting back against rural crime
- Defra unveils rural proofing resources
- Grants available for winter fuel bills
- Hundreds of communities helped
- Rural inflation 'twice national average'
- Builders back affordable homes schemes
- Towns at centre of rural revival
- Special discount on rural conference
- Rural communities left short-changed
- Minister praises broadband scheme
- Police join forces against rural crime
- £17m for community right-to-build
- Call for evidence - local partnerships
- Rural towns among 'Portas Pilots'
- Project alleviates rural fuel poverty
- Benefit change 'threatens communities'
- Rural communities on flood alert
- Villages becoming 'ghettos' for rich
- Rural elderly put pressure on services
- Communities push for better broadband
- Village SOS - more funds available
- Deadline nears for rural evidence
- £100m to keep homes warm
- Metal thieves target gas cylinders
- £1m to revitalise high streets
- Council hits back against metal theft
- More communities test local powers
- Rural fears over fuel poverty
- Watchdog probes rural challenges
- Film launch for rural elderly
- Countryfile presenter in rural debate
- High risks for young rural drivers
- 'Right-to-buy' threatens housing supply
- Event inspires community enterprise
- Unlock rural economy, say planners
- Rural people save most money
- Parishes pilot neighbourhood plans
- Survey tracks quality of life
- Neighbourhood planning welcomed
- 'Think outside box' on rural homes
- Fuel poverty highest in countryside
- Teamwork helps combat rural crime
- Website highlights police performance
- Rural homes still most expensive
- Grants for renewable heat systems
- £80m community fund launched
- Rural communities are 'Big Society'
- Extension for £5m Village SOS fund
- How to save money on heating oil
- Rural fund reopens for applications
- Village halls praise licensing plan
- Rural council plans 8,000 homes
- Market towns test planning powers
- Entries invited for rural 'oscars'
- Plan to increase affordable homes
- Warning on youth unemployment
- Village SOS 'to reverse rural decline'
- Village SOS – screened at last
- Britain faces rural housing shortfall
- Princes unveils £200k in rural grants
- Watchdog unveils two key projects
- Partner for £80m community scheme
- Localism 'will mean fewer homes'
- Jubilee promises 'People's Millions'
- Government extends 'right-to-build'
- Guide highlights community assets
- Minibus to rescue struggling pubs?
- Film highlights plight of elderly
- £40k for crisis-hit communities
- 'Rural Oscar' for village shop
- Rural policy unit starts work
- Budget: rural motorists still pay more
- Rural drivers 'priced off the road'
- Homes ‘less affordable than ever’
- Call for action on rural uplands
- Market towns are 'missing link'
- Join Big Society, councils urged
- Affordable homes for rural Norfolk
- Watchdog in call for rural support
- Downturn hits housing prospects
- Rural New Year Honours 2011
- Rural households left out in cold
- New Compact for voluntary sector
- Lottery fund targets communities
- Fuel prices soar as winter hits
- Ministers unveil planning reforms
- Farming families 'living in poverty'
- Jubilee lottery grants launched
- Rural life is 20% more expensive
- Community cash for new homes
- House prices double in a decade
- New plan to revive Post Office
- Call to reduce impact of cuts
- Volunteers to deliver services
- Extra funding for village halls
- Schools have vital rural role - report
- Rural children 'living in poverty'
- Big Society: not about cost-cutting
- Market town celebrates homes
- Right-to-build threshold lowered
- No let-up in rural pub closures
- Call for evidence on rural housing
- Supporters step in to save pubs
- Heat-map highlights fuel poverty
- Oil 'tagged' to combat rural theft
- Vulnerable rural England revealed
- Summit to salvage pub scheme
- £250k boost for affordable homes
- Big Society: Rural role is 'vital'
- £400k cinema scheme unveiled
- £200m trust boosts rural England
- Call to back creative countryside
- Jury out on rural ‘right-to-build’
- Villagers to get housing powers
- Young 'forced out of countryside'
- 'Vital' contribution of village halls
- State of countryside 2010 unveiled
- Prince Charles launches rural fund
- Green light for housing trusts
- Watchdog calls for upland strategy
- Rural people live longest – study
- Index 'fails to reflect' rural needs
- Rural watchdog ‘could do better’
- Councils must get message across
- Network boost for rural housing
- Villages win 400k for rural revival
- Poor 'unaware of money rights'
- 'Social time-bomb' of rural elderly
- Bid to boost rural East Midlands
- Fears stifle outdoor learning
- Parish council boost for housing?
- Downturn hits affordable homes
- Village shop network now online
- Rural fuel poverty on the rise
- Rural youngsters quit countryside
- Internet combats rural isolation
- Housing agency welcomes funding
- Unveiled: £1m for rural housing
- Driving test 'ignores' rural roads
- Creative countryside worth £500m
- Big rise forecast in rural elderly
- Recession hits rural social housing
- Rogue road works under scrutiny
- Call to boost economic well-being
- 'Sell church land for rural housing'
- Tories unveil rural housing plans
- Cumbria floods: open for business
- Fund to kick-start rural housing
- Eco-homes scoop national award
- £400k village shortlist unveiled
- Spotlight on public spending cuts
- ‘Think local’ to make most of fund
- Tories to unveil rural homes plan
- Homes agency misses rural target
- Homes boost for West Midlands
- Poverty blights rural England
- £10m for low carbon communities
- Minister told of housing threat
- ‘Make most of rural development’
- Homes cost more in countryside
- Rural towns miss out on £3m fund
- Boost for community land trusts
- Action at last on affordable homes
- Help shape your rural manifesto
- Experts debate state of countryside
- Government pledge to support communities
- Watchdog looks again at housing
- Lottery boost for local communities
- Rural recipients of birthday honours
- Market towns share innovative ideas
- Ideal rural home 'an elusive dream'
- Housing chief warns of rural youth exodus
- Project to strengthen role of church
- Debt soars as recession deepens
- Rural buildings given new lease of life
- Recession squeezes rural housing options
- Recession report highlights housing
- Market towns win share of £9.5m fund
- Thieves target homes as recession bites
- £19m lottery boost for village halls
- Government responds to Taylor review
- Recession 'fuels rural crime wave'
- Make most of £3.9bn, communities told
- £300k boost for rural communities
- Rural Suffolk tops quality of life study
- £2m funding for fenland communities
- £10m boost for sport in rural communities
- Affordable homes 'can save economy'
- Upland inquiry issues call for evidence
- Project aims to help market towns thrive
- Watchdog scales down rural reporting
- Sadness at plight of housing trust
- Housing trust falls victim to downturn
- Guide strengthens rural communities
- Housing chief takes early retirement
- Housing crisis brings bosses together
- £18m more for affordable homes
- Rural recognition in New Years Honours
- Homes warning as downturn deepens
- £16m secured for rural communities
- Better homes 'key to Britain's rural future'
- Downturn could hit affordable housing
- Rural inquiry video posted on YouTube
- Website vision for rural Britain in 2020
- Major study probes ageing rural Britain
- £2m plan to revitalise market towns
- Upland communities are 'under threat'
- New plan to tackle housing shortage
- Sparse areas suffer hidden deprivation
- Rural areas bear brunt of credit crunch
- Affordable homes 'still top the agenda'
- £500k quarry fund for rural communities
- Rising shortage of rural housing
- Countryside is 'good for your health'
- Housing costs more in the countryside
- Rural areas have 'more community'
- Rural advocate visits flood-hit communities
- Obesity map called into question
- Inquiry probes Post Office closures
- Rural population rise outstrips cities
- Broadcaster to chair rural commission
- Councils secure £2m in rural funds
- Credit crunch 'hits rural areas hardest'
- Partnerships share £33m rural funding
- Church speaks out on rural poverty
- Groups welcome rural housing report
- Shake-up 'vital' for affordable housing
- Campaigners look to rural housing report
- House prices 'higher in market towns'
- £75m plan for rural north-west England
- Countryside 2008: Population increases
- Landowners 'will sell' for affordable homes
- Countryside 2008: Poverty gap widens
- Credit crunch threat to affordable homes
- Toolkit to measure rural sustainability
- Rural poverty is major challenge - watchdog
- Forum addresses rural issues in Yorkshire
- Council probes challenges to rural life
- More action needed on rural housing
- £28m rural fund deluged with applications
- Rural life 'better in south-east England'
- Commission scraps rural relocation plan
- Partnership seeks to address rural issues
- New rural research institute launched
- Rural misgivings over 'eco-town' plans
- Councils need more support for homes
- Landowners in plea to convert buildings
- 'Eco-town' shortlist: sites unveiled
- Prince visits innovative rural pub project
- Brown 'to propose cheap rural homes'
- Affordable housing boost for village
- Film study highlights plight of rural poor
- Public split over house-building plans
- Councils give rural areas a bigger voice
- One million rural people 'living in poverty'
- Project to woo tourists to the Cheviot Hills
- Rural pensioners braced for winter chill
- Battle escalates over rural schools
- New Year fund for community groups
- £10m boost for rural communities
- Rural pensioners miss out on money
- Appeal for evidence on rural housing
- Warning over state of rural healthcare
- Make voice heard, rural residents told
- Service fends off post office closures
- Warning over affordable rural homes
- North-west has say on rural proposals
- Defra consults on third sector strategy
- Rural roads worst for fatal accidents
- 'Pupils benefit from school closures'
- Park chief speaks out on Post Offices
- £10m boost for rural West Midlands
- Do more for residents, councils told
- Call to boost affordable rural homes
- Call for evidence on rural housing
- Communities to help improve services
- Councils to tackle rural road safety
- Rural advocate revisits flood-hit areas
- A 'lost city' of rural disadvantage
- Scrap right to buy, says council boss
- Countryside's future under scrutiny
- Rural pensioners face bankruptcy risk
- Bid to increase Cornish rural housing
- Campaign to cut rural road deaths
- £28m for south-west communities
- Homelessness soars in rural Wales
- Rural life 'more expensive' than cities
- Crime soars in the countryside
- Rural communities to have their say
- Rural commuters 'lead double lives'
- Market towns 'becoming gentrified'
- Report: give rural people more power
- Postal plan threatens village shops
- District council scoops rural award
- Defra ponders rural housing fund
- Housing nightmare 'already here'
- Media charity tackles rural exclusion
- Pressure builds over rural housing
- Scotland's village halls 'in crisis'
- Slow down plea to rural drivers
- Thief targets 'vinegar' bibles
- Rural and city schools 'should twin'
- On the edge: isolated communities
- Study probes 'postmodern' countryside
- Change in law helps affordable housing
- Rural programme opens in south-west
- Councils bid to save rural branches
- £400k cinema scheme unveiled
- Services
- Rural broadband still too slow
- Police step up fight against rural crime
- Residents 'must register for broadband'
- Government strives for better broadband
- Plan to 'safeguard' rural postal service
- Concern over rural ambulance times
- Post Office bank boost for rural areas?
- Watchdog in final plea over services
- Rural Health Network established
- Quad bikes help tackle rural crime
- Village halls get wireless broadband
- Network warns against Budget impact
- Localism having 'little rural impact'
- Novel approach to rural broadband
- Funding fears for community transport
- Minister reveals council tax figures
- Residents 'trust councils on services'
- Faster broadband one step closer
- Government mulls rural fuel discount
- Police team up against rural crime
- Rural campaign starts to bear fruit
- Villagers create hyperfast broadband network
- Call to back broadband bid
- Higher rural fuel prices 'are fair'
- Government accepts rural services are underfunded
- Faster broadband benefits e-learners
- Deal brings broadband 'step closer'
- Bus passes connect people to jobs
- Milestone for rural community shops
- New Year focus on rural crime
- Retailer helps save rural lives
- Rural satellite broadband essential, says government minister
- Extra police focus on rural crime
- Community breathes life into village
- 'Major milestone' for rural broadband
- Local councils cut bus services
- Red diesel cleared for gritting roads
- New support to help revive villages
- Council freezes cost of social housing
- Toolkit seeks to improve rural health
- Rural Health Network launched
- Green light for UK broadband projects
- Budget cuts threaten communities
- Minister's pledge on rural transport
- Revealed: Britain's slowest broadband
- Concern over rural police numbers
- Police conference targets rural crime
- Street lights turned off to meet targets
- Rural crime manifesto unveiled
- 'Act now to slash winter energy bills'
- Register for free health conference
- Paterson in pledge on mobile phones
- Plan to reform bus subsidy system
- Communities take shares in services
- Police candidates demand fair funding
- Bus service provides rural 'lifeline'
- Community transport is 'vital' service
- Rural schools face funding challenge
- Changes applied to Warm Front scheme
- Older people face rural isolation
- Cash boost for neighbourhood planning
- High hopes for 4G rural broadband
- Community transport connects residents
- New library 'link' opens in Cumbria
- £15k boost for mobile services
- Call to support community broadband
- MPs hit out at 'data dumping'
- Broadband strategy under fire
- Survey highlights key rural services
- Rural Services Network survey results
- MPs criticise Post Office 'Local' plan
- Rural fuel poverty work highlighted
- Plan for 'red diesel' to grit rural roads
- Youngsters hit hardest by recession
- Cameron hints at rural fuel discount
- Local communities provide services
- Energy plan 'threatens rural areas'
- Speed-dating helps libraries stay open
- 'Make feelings known' on broadband
- Postcode lottery of social care funding
- Residents help decide library services
- Budget cuts force transport review
- Call to improve ambulance responses
- 'Heat or eat' dilemma for rural poor
- Police warning over rural burglaries
- £500k plan for market town
- Watchdog to probe rural fuel prices?
- Plan to revamp local bus subsidy
- Rural broadband grants in Ryedale
- One third of police stations close
- Bus routes could 'fall like skittles'
- Revamp for Post Office network
- Calls mount for rural fuel discount
- Local shops 'vital' for high streets
- MPs debate rural bank closures
- Council reviews rural library services
- Call for evidence on rural services
- Superfast broadband funding approved
- Challenging future for rural networks
- East Sussex calls for faster broadband
- Rural broadband still 'in Dark Ages'
- Minister praises broadband plans
- Key role for rural social enterprise
- Mobile broadband plan extended
- Turn pubs into local hubs, says MP
- Broadband deadline for local councils
- Police clampdown on rural crime
- Plan keeps post offices accessible
- Broadband fund opens to applicants
- Campaign for fairer travel funding
- Fears over 'two-tier' broadband
- Call for action on fuel prices
- Big variation in rural broadband
- Rural services 'worst hit by cuts'
- Rural Coalition calls for fairer funding
- Minister slammed on bus services
- Boost for mobile phone coverage
- Community schemes 'can replace withdrawn bus services'
- TV star backs broadband campaign
- Cold homes 'bad for health'
- MP warns over rural bus services
- Priorities for social care reform
- Rural grant doubles nursery places
- 'Vital' contribution of village halls
- £150m boost for mobile signals
- Have your say on Post Office plan
- Council in rural bus fare campaign
- New approach 'vital' to save services
- Fears over faster rural broadband
- Experts highlight health challenges
- Mobile library services under review
- Rural mobile broadband giveaway
- Banking 'could save post offices'
- Communities hit by financial 'double whammy'
- Broadband plan for rural Cumbria
- Call for evidence on bus services
- £363m fund for rural broadband
- Village halls 'can be rural libraries'
- Smartphones 'worse in rural areas'
- Rural bus cuts hit communities
- Innovative rural bus service expands
- Rural service delivery under scrutiny
- £10m for third sector public services
- Big challenge to meet police cuts
- Concern over ambulance responses
- BT told to cut rural broadband prices
- Conference highlights rural health
- Map highlights slow rural broadband
- Cameron pledges to reform services
- Call for evidence on rural isolation
- Communities isolated from services
- Filling stations face new threat
- Broadband funding for Yorkshire
- Rural drivers 'face battle on fuel'
- Rural housing is vital, says Cameron
- Guide aims to improve local services
- England’s rural services under threat
- MPs debate 'sky-high' fuel costs
- Big doubts about the Big Society
- Next wave of broadband funding
- Police 'shut gate' on rural crime
- MPs to debate rural broadband
- Call for vigilance over rural arson
- £110k for community-run shops
- Broadband 'crucial' for south-east
- Warning over Health Bill reforms
- Fujitsu unveils rural broadband plan
- Roads deteriorate as cuts bite
- Making the most of broadband fund
- Residents deliver own rural services
- Local radio 'vital' to rural areas
- Budget cuts to hit rural services
- Community budgets 'key to services'
- Call for action on post offices
- Broadband 'to benefit rural Britain'
- £20m unveiled for rural broadband
- 'End of an era' for Post Offices
- Councils to reduce bus services
- Rural counties 'ready for Big Society'
- Smallest village shop opens
- Communities free to sell local assets
- Watchdog slams court closure plan
- Cuts threaten rural bus services
- Rural test bed for Big Society?
- Councils slam funding settlement
- Rural England has 'significant role'
- 'Big Society' lacks clarity - report
- Inquiry into rural heating oil
- Watchdog wants cheaper broadband
- £560m boost for local transport
- Pressure mounts over fuel prices
- Boost for rural mobile broadband
- Councils face 4.4% spending cut
- Plan for super-fast rural broadband
- Online help to save post offices
- Pressure mounts on library services
- Faster broadband for market towns
- Radical plan to shake-up police
- Fears for rural bus services
- Satellite aims to bridge digital divide
- Worst broadband 'notspot' identified
- Archbishop fears for rural services
- 'Greenest pub' reopens at last
- Rural broadband pilot areas named
- Innovate and save, councils urged
- Spending review hits rural services
- Plan to mutualise Post Office
- Councils braced for spending cuts
- Councils 'freed to protect services'
- Broadband boost for Cornwall
- Revealed: depth of rural fuel poverty
- Tory MP in rural broadband warning
- Pigeons faster than rural broadband
- 'Cyber culprits' congest internet
- New threat to rural post offices
- Daily struggle for rural broadband
- Police tractor tackles rural crime
- Rural doctors 'facing burnout'
- Guide to improve rural transport
- Government scraps Place Survey
- Consumers lose out on broadband
- Rural councils to merge services
- More powers for local fire services
- Rural residents get wheels to work
- Rural Cumbria pilots ‘Big Society’
- Anger at rural broadband delay
- £400k for better rural broadband
- Budget threat to rural bus routes
- Project speeds up rural broadband
- Rural role for social enterprise
- Ministers mull fuel duty discount
- Rural England 'faces brunt of cuts'
- Chancellor scraps broadband levy
- Councils tackle rural fuel poverty
- Policy-makers 'meet rural needs'
- Help cut the deficit, councils told
- Minister’s rural broadband mystery
- Uncertain future for regional agencies
- Mobile library boosts rural readers
- Cuts 'will damage' public services
- Call for evidence on mobile phones
- Broadband threat to rural Devon
- Market town unveils iPhone app
- Broadband link for remote villages
- Army in rural recruitment drive
- Campaigners appeal over housing
- Village gets superfast broadband
- Rural motorists feeling the pinch
- MPs warn over fuel poverty target
- Stroke victims seek better services
- Broadband at last for rural north-east
- £4m package to save local pubs
- Internet boosts access to services
- Pressure mounts over broadband
- Bank services 'will save post offices'
- Double whammy for rural services
- Public funding vital for broadband
- MPs: Transport investment vital
- Project supports 60 communities
- MPs slam broadband levy
- New levy to fund local services
- Third sector 'vital' to rural services
- Give people budget say, councils urged
- £10m funding for rural sports
- Call to improve rural cancer care
- Post Office closures 'were flawed'
- Tories 'too slow' on broadband
- Market towns links strengthened
- ‘Residents can save rural services’
- Watchdog ‘won’t help small shops’
- Weather alerts for rural residents
- £1bn boost for rural broadband
- Rural pupils ‘receive less support’
- Village tests super-fast broadband
- Major study into rural fuel poverty
- Tory plan to help save services
- Probe examines local bus services
- Snow chaos across rural England
- Post Office bank plans outlined
- Fears for future of rural forecourts
- BBC highlights village shop plight
- Rural poor 'miss out on services'
- Vote for broadband, residents told
- England's vanishing rural services
- Cumbria: flood response continues
- £1m rural transport programme
- Mobile library not just for books
- Rural Cumbria battles deadly flood
- 'Fragile future' for village halls
- Community shops win rural awards
- MPs slam post office closures
- Concern grows over bank closures
- Mounted police combat rural crime
- Plan to tackle broadband not-spots
- Campaign to save village shops
- Mopeds for rural Devon students
- Film showcases transport schemes
- Rural shoppers reliant on internet
- Broadband tax plan under fire
- Rural broadband vital - minister
- Rural firms braced for rise in crime
- Carnegie launches rural manifesto
- Broadband target 'much too slow'
- Recession fuels rural burglaries
- Postal strike to hit rural business
- Planning boosts access to services
- Rural councils bid to improve life
- Prince in rural broadband warning
- Fury at England match on internet
- Rural broadband unfit for purpose
- Post Office to double as rural bank
- Call for evidence into adult care
- Fears over rural broadband levy
- Sharing staff 'saves rural schools'
- Rail firm targets better rural links
- New threat to rural GP surgeries
- Council agreements ‘improve services'
- Mandelson in rural broadband talks
- Lack of homes ‘threatens schools'
- Rural motorists hit by fuel tax hike
- Rural schools in closure crisis
- Watchdog targets bus services
- Council strives to improve services
- £300k secures transport scheme
- MP criticises broadband 'notspots'
- Councils 'must help ease recession'
- Experts speed up rural broadband
- Watchdog calls for action on fuel
- Rural car club has big aspirations
- EU boost for rural communities
- £16.7m community hardship fund
- MPs criticise rural 'mainstreaming'
- Ruralnet falls victim to recession
- Defra unveils broadband package
- Council grants £50k for broadband
- Maps show mobile broadband not-spots
- Police hitch lift with mobile library
- BBC soap helps save village shops
- Revealed: rural service availability
- Rural communities win Lottery funds
- Rural residents lack financial advice
- No place like home, reveals study
- Innovative project for rural elderly
- Government urged to bridge digital divide
- Village life 'in terminal decline'
- Railway to reconnect rural residents?
- Phone tax to pay for rural broadband
- Rural-watchdog backs taxi campaign
- MP in call to promote rural tourism
- Rate relief 'vital' for rural business
- Rural post offices dubbed ‘second class'
- MP calls for free cash machines
- Rural homes 'left behind' by broadband
- Network links up with rural academics
- Major study into rural fuel poverty
- Tories outline rural housing proposals
- GPs 'better paid' in the countryside
- Call for flexible council budgets
- Transport scheme secures £90,000
- MP demands action on fuel poverty
- £12m tech boost for rural services
- Project to increase affordable homes
- Broadband battle 'ignores rural needs'
- Rural people 'lack vital services'
- Council battle to keep roads open
- Strategy to reduce rural isolation
- Kiosks bring services to the countryside
- Council tax rises faster in countryside
- Rural areas to pilot super-fast broadband
- Think-tank calls for overhaul of services
- Poilice contact points reassure residents
- Slow speed of rural broadband revealed
- Local shops flourish during recession
- Post Bank 'would save post offices'
- Transport threat to rural communities
- Council to cut rural taxibus services
- Authority to improve financial well-being
- Mobile broadband to speed up internet?
- Rural pubs offered £5,000 to diversity
- Rural areas 'bear brunt of fuel poverty'
- Impending 'crisis' in rural elderly care
- Broadband plan 'not rural-proofed'
- Community bank plan for Post Offices
- MP speaks out on rural fuel poverty
- Six point plan aims to save rural pubs
- Faster broadband reopens digital divide
- Closed: One in five rural Post offices
- Services probed for older rural people
- Threat of increase for rural water bills
- Boost for rural broadband speeds
- Government U-turn on rural pharmacies
- Shared taxis 'should replace rural buses'
- Concern over rural ambulance times
- Rural patients back threatened GPs
- Pharmacy plan threatens rural GPs
- Benefits lifeline for rural post offices
- Medical school plan to boost rural GPs
- Decision allays fears for Post Offices
- Garages slam PM over price cut call
- £170k fund for rural retailers
- Crisis prompts fears for services
- £25m fund to improve bus services
- Now Devon moves to save Post Offices
- Survey canvasses opinion on services
- Council unveils £2m road safety project
- Crisis summit for rural publicans
- Lack of transport 'blights young lives'
- Post office reopens with council help
- Watchdog highlights transport challenge
- 'No aid' for superfast rural broadband
- Rural broadband cost outstrips cities
- Superfast broadband is 'rural priority'
- ‘Raw deal’ for rural schools
- Demand set to soar for rural social care
- Soaring fuel costs hit rural bus operators
- Delegates to debate future for services
- Garages struggle to cut fuel prices
- Views sought on community transport
- Ban sparks fears for postal deliveries
- Police urged to target rural concerns
- Warning by MPs over Post Office funding
- Older people hit by post office closures
- Rural stroke victims 'disadvantaged'
- Rural roads among the worst in Britain
- Mobile childcare on way for rural parents
- Councils team up for rural Post Offices
- £23m transport boost for rural youngsters
- Call to increase rural healthcare funding
- Grant reform 'must not endanger bus routes'
- Consultants wanted for major 'life events' study
- Council's 'domesday' survey of rural services
- Bus reforms 'will hit rural residents hardest'
- Ambulance service maps rural homes
- Businesses slam rural broadband report
- Rural people 'better connected to broadband'
- Impact of post office closures revealed
- Rural phone boxes face the axe
- £60,000 funding for rural railway stations
- MPs ask for views on free bus passes
- Thousands more post offices 'face closure'
- £3.5m to transform rural drug treatment
- Businesses in plea over postal services
- Rural agencies are disjointed - report
- Council moves to improve mobile libraries
- Protect local GP surgeries, say Tories
- £500,000 boost for rural transport
- Rural services are in decline - official
- Cornwall to probe Post Office closures
- 'Deep concern' over Post Office closures
- Rural wheels to work scheme expands
- Rural constabularies face budget cap
- Crime rises faster in the countryside
- MPs call for body to handle complaints
- Government wins vote on Post Offices
- Police ask rural residents to pay for patrols
- MP condemns European bus rules
- Pathfinders 'lead way to better services'
- Reality TV to inspire rural revival?
- Police 'failing' in fight against rural crime
- Text messages to catch rural criminals
- US bank targets rural Britain
- Banks fail rural customers - watchdog
- Passengers demand revision of bus rules
- Protests fail to save Post Offices
- Fight for post offices, residents urged
- Record numbers use transport service
- Council warns of rural childcare gap
- New Year brings host of rural honours
- Rural diesel price soars to 120p/litre
- Major study probes rural services
- Bishop hits out at post office closures
- Rural residents pay more for internet
- Study counts cost of lost services
- Fears over rural ambulance services
- Youngsters 'need free rural transport'
- Consultants called in over post offices
- Accolade for rural broadband project
- Minister: Measures will boost services
- Budget shortfall threatens services
- Fund helps fight rural fuel poverty
- Councils demand £250m for migrants
- £5.4m boost from free cash machines
- Out-of-hours GP services 'are failing'
- Study examines rural public transport
- Councillor demands rural road rethink
- Celebrities line up for post offices
- Durham to improve rural bus network
- Councils warn of tough times ahead
- Councils in move to save post offices
- Watchdog in plea over post offices
- Rural buses put on endangered list
- Threatened post offices are named
- Healthcare workers fly the rural flag
- Rural Wheels rolls in south Cumbria
- Alliance urges action on fly-tipping
- Computers devise ultimate bus route
- Axe hangs over rural bus routes
- Migrants 'put pressure' on services
- Bin changes could fuel fly-tipping
- Thousands sign Post Office petition
- Civil servants debate housing crisis
- Villages hit back over service decline
- Rail operator wins rural award
- Councils 'could provide more homes'
- Under scrutiny: the rural idyll
- Campaign to recruit rural doctors
- Health week highlights best practice
- Banks urged to share branches
- Online petitions 'would boost services'
- MP: Fuel levy will hit rural poor
- Council's £1.5m bid to save Post Offices
- MPs hit out at Post Office closures
- 2,500 more post offices to close
- Millions unable to find an NHS dentist
- Rural councils to merge services
- Environment
- Split over change to planning rules
- Cheaper energy in return for fracking?
- 'Yes' vote for first neighbourhood plan
- Rural warning over flood defences
- Split over changes to planning rules
- Councils face pothole nightmare
- £20m flood bill for rural insurer
- Call for planning to boost growth
- Avoid turbine 'buffer zones', councils told
- Fears grow over deadly tree disease
- Ramblers forge path to better access
- Council gives away trees for planting
- Government warning on wind farms
- Protect green belt, ministers urged
- Residents have say on conservation
- Joining forces against fly-tipping
- Plan to reduce rural speed limits
- Backlash against rural wind turbines
- Campaigners target roadside litter
- Rights-of-way rules to be revised
- Revealed: Quality of our rural life
- Call to protect rural cyclists
- Maps show countryside 'at risk'
- Campaigners demand HS2 changes
- MPs criticise planning framework
- Call for clampdown on metal theft
- Local authorities recycle more waste
- Coalition 'committed to Green Belt'
- Rural groups disagree on planning
- Fly-tipping costs £40m a year
- Unveiled: Draft planning guidelines
- Reform on cards for village greens
- Joint force tackles off-road crime
- Fears for 'vital' EU funding streams
- Conservationists slam Localism Bill
- Boost for market town flood project
- Rural change is 'inescapable'
- Budget: Rural divide over planning
- Concern remains over public forests
- High-speed rail plan scrutinised
- England's improved rural landscapes
- Rural recycling among the best
- Fly-tipping costs councils 'too much'
- Boost for rural green energy
- Fly-tipping prosecutions soar
- Uncertainty over coastal path plan
- Green groups warn against cuts
- Man-made clutter ‘blights countryside’
- National Park budgets cut by 5%
- Traffic decrease for rural roads
- Warning of surge in fly-tipping
- Rural waste to help power nation
- Renewable energy fund launched
- Fly-tipping campaign stepped up
- Watchdog warns on rural planning
- Unveiled: rural green energy plan
- Plan for low carbon rural economy
- £15m for coastal communities
- Countryside ‘vital’ to our future
- Coal power 'destroys countryside'
- Rural homes join boiler scheme
- Countryside 'can be more beautiful'
- South Downs wins National Park status
- Mapping out a future for climate change
- Rural road-building plan 'unacceptable'
- Litterbugs costs councils £500m a year
- Partners seek better future for Dartmoor
- Agency plans to increase rural access
- Watchdog to launch climate project
- 'Domesday' survey of countryside
- Defra launches £6m environment fund
- New setback for eco-town plans
- England plagued by litter, says survey
- Countryside blighted by noise pollution
- Rural residents pay 'excessive' green tax
- Green belt land is not sacred - think tank
- Public fears green belt destruction
- Rural sites are 'best for wind turbines'
- Stakeholders have say on landscape law
- Eco-towns may be illegal, say lawyers
- Recruitment drive for local access forum
- Countryside 2008: A mixed environment
- Special status for flood-risk areas?
- Renewable energy to light rural fires
- Campaigners march against eco-towns
- Report highlights benefits of rural access
- 200 jobs to go at Natural England
- Fly-tippers to face tougher penalities
- Natural England in £45m landscape boost
- Carbon credits 'would hurt rural residents'
- 'Suburban sprawl' threatens rural services
- Radical change vital for countryside - watchdog
- Campaign seeks to protect village greens
- Green Belt still under threat - campaigners
- Skills shortage 'threatens buildings'
- Campaign launched against fly-tipping
- Warning over state of the countryside
- MP to continue fly-tipping campaign
- Litter problem worse on rural roadsides
- Campaigners debate England's rural future
- Views sought on Peak District future
- National Park inquiry 'legally flawed'
- Peat project combats climate change
- New maps reveal green countryside
- Call to safeguard English landscapes
- Plague of rats threatens countryside
- Reform land agency, say campaigners
- National Park public inquiry to reopen
- New law protects English commons
- Warning over neglected heathland
- Rethink green belt rules, says agency
- £25m to promote the 'great outdoors'
- New powers to ban off-road drivers
- Housing plan is threat to green belt
- Minister's pledge on coastal access
- Ex-offenders regenerate countryside
- Call to remove rural road signs
- Consultation on Norfolk Broads plan
- Longest trail will 'boost rural economy'
- Green Belt must stay - campaigners
- Call to make England a national park
- Newest National Trail unveiled
- AONB budget cuts begin to bite
- 'Biggest ever' countryside survey
- Region to exploit 'natural economy'
- Heritage plan is 'under-funded'
- Climate change threatens churches
- Landscape 'can help reduce flood risk'
- Fly-tipping is 'abuse of countryside'
- Rural Words
- Rural poverty - forgotten, not gone
- Can we make rural transport work?
- Hidden poverty in the farmyard
- Market Towns – fit for the future?
- Our coastline: Life on the edge?
- Launch of Rural Health Network
- Rural Statement - what does it offer?
- Whose rural-urban fringe?
- Barriers to education, employment and training
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- Will neighbourhood planning benefit rural communities?
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- Localism – greater or inequitable choices?
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- Final NPPF 'revised for the better'
- Planning framework imminent
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- A superfast rural future?
- Uphill or downhill - where next for the uplands?
- Housing: What and where should we build?
- Scots and English rural policies compared
- What's in the rural economy review?
- Ambulance responses in rural areas
- Realising rural potential?
- Older people with support needs
- The great rural food debate
- Overhauling our rural services
- Rural youth have aspirations too
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- We need affordable rural homes
- The Big Society - a Big Con?
- Rights of way 'must remain open'
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- Big doubts about the “Big Society”
- Rural shops need ombudsman now
- Tackling rurality the American way
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- Rural communities are 'more vulnerable'
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- Axe hangs over vital rural bus routes
- Major national initiative to tackle rural fuel poverty
- Government must act to end rural tax inequality
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- Rural communities to shape their own manifesto
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- Rural communities face 'double whammy' over public services
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- Countryside has vital role in Cameron's Big Society
- Rural network welcomes 'agenda for change'
- Rural councils face brunt of spending cuts
- Rural network teams up with leading property consultancy
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