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A one stop shop for countryside jobs

Nine miles inland from Whitby in the middle of the North York Moors National Park is the small honeypot village of Goathland. It's here that you'll find CJS CJS - what's that then? Crazy...

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Pub is The Hub working with creative arts organisation to help encourage pubs to become local hubs for creativity
27.07.2022

Pub is The Hub working with creative arts organisation to help encourage pubs to become local hubs for creativity

Pub is The Hub, www.pubisthehub.org.uk , teamed up with voluntary arts organisation Creative Lives,  www.creative-lives.org , and CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale), for an online event to help give publicans insights on the opportunities for their pub through...

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Advance funding starts in England to help struggling farms
25.07.2022

Advance funding starts in England to help struggling farms

Farmers Weekly has reported that, in light of the cashflow crisis facing many agricultural business, the Rural Payments Agency has announced that farmers in England will receive a 50% advance on their basic payment scheme Farmers have been under...

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Investment in TransPennine Route Upgrade trebled to over £9.bn
25.07.2022

Investment in TransPennine Route Upgrade trebled to over £9.bn

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has announced funding for the TransPennine Route Upgrades has trebled from £2.9billion to £9billion The TransPennine Route upgrades and Northern PowerHouse Rail, is due to cut journey times by 40% and reduce carbon emissions...

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Changes to Help to Grow: Digital
25.07.2022

Changes to Help to Grow: Digital

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have announced some key improvements from the 25th July to the Help to Grow: Digital scheme, which will enable even more firms to benefit from the scheme ...

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Rural communities discriminated against for being digitally isolated
18.07.2022

Rural communities discriminated against for being digitally isolated

Business Cheshire report how rural  based business communities risk being “left behind” and “isolated” because they have to put up with third-rate connectivity services, a Cheshire based expert has warned Roy Shelton, the Chairman of the Chester Business...

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£200 million broadband investment in rural Cumbria
18.07.2022

£200 million broadband investment in rural Cumbria

Westmorland Gazette reports that broadband provider, Fibrus, has revealed its plans for its roll out across Great Britain - starting with ‘underserved towns and villages’ in Cumbria In a staged approach, the expansion from Fibrus will see it cover...

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North Yorkshire to receive £17 million boost to rural economy
18.07.2022

North Yorkshire to receive £17 million boost to rural economy

ITV reports that over the next three years almost £17million pounds will be spent in North Yorkshire on improving broadband coverage and transport links in rural areas The funding has come from the shared prosperity fund, which was put...

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Rural Planning in the 2020s
11.07.2022

Rural Planning in the 2020s

Rural Planning in the 2020s is a report launched this month by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI ) It examines the challenges facing rural communities throughout the UK and in Ireland in the 2020s....

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English farmers count cost of changes to subsidy regime
11.07.2022

English farmers count cost of changes to subsidy regime

The Financial Times reports that a new report by the Countryside and Community Research Institute calculated that across the south-west of England, the wider region — comprising Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Somerset — would lose £883mn in direct subsidies by...

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