Can we make rural transport work?

TRANSPORT is essential in providing people with access to work, learning, health care, food shops and leisure activities. Amid falling budgets in public services and investment in key infrastructure projects – from HS2 to growth schemes on motorways – how can we balance the demand for economic growth with tight budgets to make strides in […]

Hidden poverty in the farmyard

Amid debates around nutrition, supply chains, affordability, productivity, competitiveness and reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), many farmers are left struggling to make ends meet. How can we support farmers and ensure they have a future? Jessica Sellick investigates. As well as providing the raw materials for our breakfast, lunch and suppers, farmers deliver […]

Market Towns – fit for the future?

One in five people in the UK live in or around small rural towns. But can they thrive? Jessick Sellick investigates. SOME 11 million people live in or around the UK’s small rural towns – and they remain the most rapidly expanding settlements in England. Many of them are traditional market towns, others former industrial […]

Our coastline: Life on the edge?

The furthest point from the coastline in England and Wales is only 110 kilometres and a large proportion of the UK population, about one-third, lives within 10 kilometres of it. With an ever changing coastline – due to climatic conditions, erosion, flooding and sediment supply – how can informed decisions about managing the coast be […]

Rural Statement – what does it offer?

Is the Rural Statement a ‘new’ contract to empower communities or re-presentation of ‘old’ initiatives? Jessica Sellick finds out. Under the strap line ‘new contract to give rural communities power to hold Government to account on rural growth’, the Rural Statement 2012 was launched by Environment Secretary Owen Paterson on 12 September 2012. This eagerly […]

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