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EDITOR'S NOTES

In the months ahead we'll be covering Rural Youth issues in greater depth for the Rural Gateway's brand new Youth section. It will feature content from our Rural Youth Correspondent and other sources (any contributions welcome). It will also be a useful place to visit if you are seeking website links covering issues like health, enterprise, transport and of course the Youth Parliament itself. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/topics/youth.html

RURAL SERVICES CONFERENCE SURVEY

If you have attended the annual conference organised by SCVO (last held in Inverurie in September 2005) please take five minutes to complete our short online survey. Your responses will help SCVO to assess the value of the event. See: http://sift.cogix.com/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=showform&pollid=ruralgateway!Ruralservicesconf

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THANK YOU

To recent contributors Tim Messer, Fenton Robb, Andy Wightman, Richard Morrison, Julie Ryan, Karen Archer, Derek Purvis and others. If you would like to share your expertise with the Gateway please email: mailto:editor@ruralgateway.org.uk

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LEADING STORIES

FUNDING LATEST

Read Sandra Hogg's latest news on funding, including new programmes, deadlines and events. This month Sandra spotlights CommunicAbility. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1276

RURAL ROUND UP

Catch up with our latest selection of local news stories from around Scotland.See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1270

GOVERNMENT MUST PLACE MORE TRUST IN RURAL PEOPLE, SAYS HOEY

Kate Hoey, chairman of the Countryside Alliance, this week called for a stronger relationship between the government and rural people to ensure a sustainable future for Scotland's countryside. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1281

CROFTING BILL SCRUTINY HIGHLIGHTS MAIN CONCERNS

The debate continued this week on the Crofting Reform Bill, with the Parliamentary Environment and Rural Development Committee sitting in Stornoway. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1280

NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITY IN EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The University of Gloucestershire has launched a new Masters course but you don't have to stay in Cheltenham to do it! See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1275

SOLO AROUND SCOTLAND

Follow Alan Rankin's circumnavigation of Scotland by boat and bike, all for good causes. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/linklibrary/687

RURAL ANSWERS LATEST

Rural Answers is the place where Rural Gateway users seek and offer help on a range of subjects. It is also a discussion area: What do you think of the proposal to reopen the Borders railway link from Tweedbank to Waverley? See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/ruralanswers/

CONSULTATION: SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL TRANSPORT STRATEGY

This paper sets out the key questions about Scotland's transport future to be addressed in the development of a National Transport Strategy and provides an opportunity for stakeholders to comment on the key strategic issues for transport in Scotland. See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/information/documents.html

CONTACT US

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I hope you continue to find the Rural Community Gateway Website
to be of interest.

Kind Regards,
Bruce Wares,
Editor.
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