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Thursday 14 October 2010

Rural Public Services at risk

The high proportion of rural people are employed in the public sector is bringing fears that jobs will be lost in a further blow to the countryside economy. "Many rural communities were standing on the edge of a precipice and this Coalition Government was going to push them over, if it had its way", says Mike Walker in Country Standard http://country-standard.blogspot.com/2010/10/lib-dem-lord-slams-coalitions-slaughter.html