Vox Pops from Rawtenstall, Lancashire and Okehampton, Devon of young people talking about employment in rural areas (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Vox Pops from Rawtenstall, Lancashire and Okehampton, Devon of young people talking about employment in rural areas

3:37pm Thursday 4th March 2010 in National News © Press Association 2011

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Young people are being driven out of the countryside by a lack of jobs and affordable housing, a government-commissioned report has warned. Planning rules must be loosened, and public transport links and broadband access improved, if rural communities are to survive, according to the study. A team led by the Government's Rural Advocate Stuart Burgess gathered evidence from across England to assemble the report - which will be handed directly to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.