Labour MPs and countryside campaigners are urging the government to introduce a national rural plan as soaring oil prices and rising living costs place.

More than 40 Labour MPs warn government action is urgently needed to tackle growing poverty and inequality in rural and semi‑rural communities.

Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, Jane Atterton, senior lecturer and manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College and Jayne Glass, researcher in ...

Hardship a 'daily reality' as 1.5m British homes not on the mains gas grid are hammered by shock increases ...

Boys who grow up in rural poverty achieve higher levels of success than their urban peers because of the “predominance of two-parent households,” a new study found. “Why do kids born into poverty in ...

Newcastle University received funding to support this research from Standard Life Foundation, a charity whose objective is to address financial hardship. Mark Shucksmith was principal investigator but ...