The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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Post Office's results showed profits rise

ITV News covered the Post Office’s financial results, which showed that it has continued to enjoy profit growth for the second consecutive year.

The positive figures were driven by financial services, telecoms and insurance offered by the Post Office, but also by bank branch closures driving people to make use of Post Office services. In 2017 the Post Office secured £370 million of funding from Government to protect village branches.

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→ ITV News - Post Office profits rise as it benefits from bank branch closures