24/03/2011
Despite vocal campaigns against it, Charlotte Smith hears claims that putting a high speed rail link through the English countryside will benefit rural areas.
Despite vocal campaigns against it, Farming Today hears claims that putting a high speed rail link through the English countryside will benefit rural areas. It costs £2600 a year more to live in the countryside than the city, according to the Office for National Statistics. Charlotte Smith asks if it is worth it, and hears from economist Neil Lee, from the Work Foundation, who says despite the move towards living in cities, many of the cliches of the rural idyll ring true.
And it's BBC National School Report News Day. Brockhill Park Performance Arts College in Kent report how they have farmed their own meat from piglet to sausage.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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