the nearest train is in brampton and even that is not go to brampton, it goes to brampton junction youe walk. travel is not the only concern. weak mobile phone signal and broadband speeds just some of the challenges of rural living. but what about the future? in many rural areas, job prospects are limited and young people often have no choice but to leave. i have got a daughter who is 15, i think she is really keen to go to the city, not the she does not love living here because she does, she loves walking and she does love the countryside but i know that she definitely does want to experience living in the city. this is the briefing from bbc news. here are the headlines: polls open in zimbabwe in just a few minutes, the country's first presidential election of the post—mugabe era. 12,000 firefighters are battling to control the wildfires right across california. at least six people have been killed. russian prison guards have gone on trial after secret footage showed them viciously beating inmates. human rights groups say it exposes a culture of institutionalised violence. now it's ti

the nearest train is in brampton and even that doesn't go to brampton, it goes to brampton junction so are a big tourist spot like the lakes, for example, you get missed. travel isn't the only concern. weak mobile phone signal and broadband speeds just some of the challenges of rural living. but then the people of hallbankgate are no strangers to a challenge. the closure of a co—op, the only shop in the village in 2015, was devastating. so the community pulled together and after a lot of hard work, the hub opened its doors last year. it's really important because we haven't got many facilities in this parish, really, in this area. we've got a small village school with just over 50 pupils, we've got a pub and other than that we've got the shop and that's it. the nearest shop if you go east is another 15 miles away. and for some of the older residents, that's just too far. earlier this year, hallbankgate was totally shut off from the rest of the world when the beast from the east submerged the village in snow. we were totally cut off from everywhere. and they opened. not all day but they

china changing its unfair trade practices opening its economy that's why the trumpet ministration is brampton its trade for on friday america raised its duties on chinese imports china retaliated with similar tariffs on u.s. imports and now trump has ordered the u.s. trade representative robert lion heiser to place tariffs on a further two hundred billion u.s. dollars worth of chinese goods including food and agricultural products the chinese government has called the plans unacceptable. and honestly the u.s. is being a typical bully on trade china will take necessary action to protect our legal rights i also want to add to this is a fight between you need a truism and multilateralism protectionism and free trade and power and rules china plans to hit back and has filed a complaint with the world trade organization. now all this turmoil means it's a very busy time for china's castanets officials explaining what billions of dollars in tariffs could mean for the company's manufacturing defacto products takes takes time as trouble china is encouraging companies to push towards operates for marke

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