Posts Tagged ‘rural community’

Why use Twitter in the countryside?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Twitter is a useful tool for communicating and keeping in touch, a good way to think of it is a public text message which you can share with all your friends to save calling or text messaging (and free).

For the rural community it is also a great way to get instant information on the Weather, Rural News and Prices. We have launched Twitter.com/kissinggates to allow you to keep up to date with useful information affecting your rural community.

Some useful Rural Tweeters are;

  1. Twitter.com/KissingGates
  2. Twitter.com/MetOffice
  3. Twitter.com/FarmersGuardian
  4. Twitter.com/FarmersWeekly
  5. Twitter.com/CountrysideAlliance

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Farmers create their own fibre network

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

In rural Lancashire the local community is laying fibre. The Wennington/Wray communities had ‘no hope’ when it came to the provision of ADSL so in 2005 they were awarded a £25k grant by the North West Development Agency to roll out a 2Mbps symmetrical mesh wifi network. The initial 12 users charged themselves £25 a month which provided a kitty for further expansion of the network to 22 endpoints.

This allows the rural community to take advantage of services online such as an online dating for farmers. Kissinggates.com is the home of rural dating and we hope to help the Farmers of Lancashire find a partner now they can turn to online dating!

Countryside Post Offices hit another blow.

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Village post offices face being hit with big bills after royal mail bosses forgot to charge them for installing cash machines to entice customers in reported this is Cornwall.

For two years, sub-postmasters have enjoyed having the “free” machines in their stores, often acting as the only source of accessing cash without travelling to the next town.

But now Post Office Ltd has admitted it should have been charging to keep the machines stocked with notes – and branches will need to pay bills dating back two years. In many cases, the cost runs to hundreds of pounds.

This in not good for our struggling rural communities, every day tasks in towns, like walking to an ATM to get cash, are not that easy in the countryside! In the same way a city slicker can walk to numerous bars stuffed with singletons, whereas a rural farmer in the countryside can pop to the local pub which is more likely to be stuffed with relatives!

DON’T DESPAIR – Kissinggates.com is the answer to finding a partner if you live in a rural community. We put the interests of the countryside first and serve you! Check us out today and register for free.