Ordnance Survey rescues rural towns from juggernauts
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Keeping local shops really local Killjoys at the Ordnance Survey are to direct heavy goods vehicle drivers away from narrow country lanes and high streets, depriving rural residents of the most fun they've had since fox hunting was banned.â¦
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A National Guard recruiting mission gone awry shakes a small South Carolina town to its core.
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Trapped residents in Boscastle are lifted to safety from the roof of their flooded home. Three people were missing yesterday after a flash flood hit a coastal tourist area in south-west England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds ...
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Brits are finding a home away from home in RVs.
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As urbanites with rising incomes are demanding better air and water, the countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi  - When hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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By Lucia Walinchus, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Sep. 8--AWENDAW -- More than 100 people packed the unairconditioned Town  Hall on Thursday night, many attempting to put a stop to the area's first big  housing development. It didn't work, as council rezoned the rural tract.
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Gunfire and gang violence are alarming people in this farm town where the usual background noise is the reassuring chug of field machinery.
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For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.
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Driverless cars which use lasers to avoid obstacles are being tried out in a Northamptonshire town.
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The fear of gun and knife crime affects people across the UK, even those in rural areas, reports a think tank.
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A substation is spared by inches and power is restored to 48,000 homes, as floods recede in parts of England.
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More than 100,000 hectares of English countryside is opened up to the public this weekend after 120 years of campaigning.
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Eastern Europeans are becoming the mainstay of hard-to-fill jobs in Britain's rural areas, research suggests.
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Rescuers have saved a baby girl from torrents of floodwater that surged through the Cornish village of Boscastle by winching her to safety in a rucksack.
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GOSHEN -- On any given day in this rural town of about 1,000, a few people park their cars in front of Town Hall while they log onto the Internet.