The Government’s 4G rollout in rural communities is behind schedule as costs are “higher than anticipated”. The National Audit Office (NAO) said the Share Rural Network programme that is funded by the Government and the country’s biggest mobile operators has one seen
Hundreds of hospitals in rural areas of the U.S. are at risk of closure, according to new data from Chartis, a Chicago health care advisory services firm. A total of 141 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 — while another 453 are
Delays to gas delivery has left scores of rural UK homes without power. The households have spent days without heating or electricity after their deliveries of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) were held up. About 200,000 homes in UK, mostly in remote areas,
Crime has got worse in the last 12 months, according to nearly three out of four (73 per cent) of the more than 2,000 people who took part in research by the Countryside Alliance. Twelve per cent feel unsafe after dark in
Mexico City residents were rattled by a moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck to the south of the capital Thursday. MAGNITUDE 5.1 EARTHQUAKE RATTLES BARBADOS The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at about 2:03 p.m. local time at a spot
The bodies of five young men were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings. The car and the
An “acute and overlooked” shortage of affordable housing poses a threat to the survival of communities in rural England, a countryside charity has warned. Britons are being driven out of the countryside by record house prices, low wages and a surge in
The National Rural Health Association says costs for hospitals have gone up and funding for rural hospitals has gone down, because COVID-19 funds are no longer a factor. The emergency funds helped many hospitals that were at risk of closing before the
Residents of Murfreesboro in Tennessee recently passed an ordinance that essentially prohibits homosexuality in public in a scheme to ban library books they consider to be gay. The rural Tennessee town banned “indecent behaviour,” which includes “indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behaviour, nudity
Tories say both Labour and the Lib Dems have committed to Whitehall-imposed top-down development targets. They claim it will desecrate the countryside and “rob” communities of the right to veto plans. Housing minister Rachel Maclean said: “Labour’s house-building plans are a threat