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Young Farmer Focus - Joss Naylor: 'Rural businesses need improved connectivity'

Joss Naylor, 19, is a young farmer from Glossop in the Derbyshire Peak District. He writes on why rural and farming communities need greater access to reliable and fast internet

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Glossop young farmer Joss Naylor pictured with Shadow Defra Secretary Victoria Atkins. Mr Naylor said: "The damaging effects of these broadband rollouts upon local ecosystems, birdlife habitats, and biodiversity on greenbelt land presents challenges to development and has led to the total not-spot of the shared rural network plans being scaled back."
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Glossop young farmer Joss Naylor pictured with Shadow Defra Secretary Victoria Atkins. Mr Naylor said: "The damaging effects of these broadband rollouts upon local ecosystems, birdlife habitats, and biodiversity on greenbelt land presents challenges to development and has led to the total not-spot of the shared rural network plans being scaled back."

Only thirteen miles away from central Manchester, on a hill farm in the Peak District, my broadband speed currently stands at 7.7Mb/second, in the bottom 10% of UK households. This is the essence of...

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