Scotland’s rural villages send visitors a clear message with home-made signs

Under normal circumstances they make for perfect stay-cation destinations. But residents in Scottish rural villages and glens have been urging visitors and those wishing to isolate there to stay away.  Signs and blockades have been erected on single track roads and normally popular destinations, with messages such as ‘go home’ and ‘closed’ written across them. … Read more

Ever dreamed of swapping the rat race for a rural idyll? This writer did just that

Not long after Tamsin Calidas and her husband, Rab, decided to sell their home in London and buy a derelict croft on a small Hebridean island, their estate agent gave them a warning. ‘Island life . . . it’s different. It’s not for everyone,’ she said. Tamsin would have plenty of time to reflect on … Read more

Stay away this weekend! Angry rural dwellers warn visitors not to flood the countryside

Britons took full advantage of the loosened lockdown today by heading to parks and beaches to soak up the sunshine.     Boris Johnson’s road map back to normality has given the green light for unlimited exercise and sunbathing, which has been seized upon by the public.  Fitness enthusiasts were pictured working up a sweat in London’s … Read more

He was a pillar of a rural community but ‘Thomas Fairfax’ was actually a murderer

No one could have appeared more plausible than Thomas Fairfax, the middle-aged divorcee who arrived in the small Gloucestershire town of Lydney in the winter of 1991.  Tall, well-spoken and smartly dressed in a cashmere overcoat, expensive Italian shoes and neat shirt and tie, he soon became a familiar face — driving around town in … Read more

Adorable footage shows otters and badgers playing with their young in rural Wales

Adorable footage shows otters and badgers relaxing and playing with their young in North Wales as the coronavirus lockdown leads to a marked reduction in human activity Hidden cameras in rural North Wales captured the footage of the animals   Shows several badgers playing together in the middle of the night  Wildlife expert from Wales also … Read more

Bella Hadid enjoys rural life at family’s Pennsylvania farm

Bella Hadid gets her hands dirty as she plants herbs at her family’s Pennsylvania farm… after sister Gigi confirmed her first pregnancy By Kate Thomas for MailOnline Published: 13:22 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 13:22 BST, 4 May 2020 Supermodel Bella Hadid was showing off her green fingers on Sunday, planting some herbs at her … Read more

‘Sunday driver’ effect causes more fatal accidents per head in rural areas

‘Sunday driver’ effect is part of the reason MORE fatal car crashes occur in rural areas than in urban cities Peak for fatal car crashes is in rural areas and on a Sunday, UCL study shows  Weekdays have two spikes in collisions for morning and evening rush hour  More total collisions are seen in urban areas … Read more

Rural America is facing higher coronavirus death rates than major US cities largely due to age

Rural America is seeing higher death rates from the novel coronavirus than its urban counterparts because of an aging population, a new report suggests. The research examined the impact of age on the potential death rate in each US county. A demographer found that more than half of the country’s rural counties would have significantly … Read more

British teacher, 20, stranded in rural Honduras amid coronavirus lockdown 

The family of a ‘scared’ 20-year-old British woman stranded in Honduras because of the coronavirus pandemic is calling on the Government to bring her home. Freya Madeley, 20, is trying to return from a rural area of the Central American country, where she had been volunteering as an English teacher. It is understood the British … Read more

Counties with NO coronavirus cases are rural and poor but experts warn they WILL still get it

As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 … Read more