Farming Today This Week: Rural Services

Sybil Ruscoe is at the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop in the Forest of Dean - built and run by local people to fill the gaps left when local services disappeared. It's one of a growing number of community enterprises springing up in rural areas. It also provides a cafe, wifi, office space and some postal services.

We also meet people in Derbyshire who've bought their local pub; campaigners in Somerset who fought to save the town's last bank and a man in Northumberland who put his own money into starting up a rural bus service when existing routes were lost.

Producer: Sally Challoner.