MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have highlighted the impact poor broadband and mobile continues to have on rural communities and businesses.
Free-to-use ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have been disappearing from rural communities and small towns for some time, along with bank branches moving out.
Big Switch and Save is a collective energy switching scheme which offers residents the chance to save money on their energy bills. In West Norfolk it’s led by CAN and King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council.
Heating oil prices have risen dramatically – but CAN’s collective heating oil buying scheme secured an impressively low price for our members in mid-September.
People are being asked for their views on a vision for how travel and transport in and around Great Yarmouth could be improved over the next ten years.
The government has responded less than positively to many of the well-reasoned recommendations made in the House of Lords’ recent report on rural strategies, according to national charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE).
