
Rural policing, rural broadband, wildfires
Presented by Anna Hill. Including reports on rural policing budgets, a conference in Scotland discussing the increasing risk from wildfires, and rural fast broadband.
Caz Graham has been out on the rural beat with the Cumbria Police force, which is facing budget cuts of more than 拢11 million. The Police and Crime Commissioner warns rural services will suffer.
Nancy Nicolson reports from a conference in Scotland looking at the increasing risk from wild fires. They cost an estimaged 拢55 million a year just to tackle, but also destroy biodiversity and carbon storage ecosystems like peatland and heathland, which are particularly susceptible to fire.
And the 91热爆's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains what the Prime Minister's announcement about a 'Universal Service Obligation' means for rural fast broadband.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner.
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