Only connect
This is why a delegation of MPs from North Yorkshire, England's most rural county, is calling on Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to include
the county among the pilot schemes for so-called superfast connections due to be announced before the end of the year.
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Hide AdWith the Government supposedly committed to the countryside, and considering that the Prime Minister has promised that Yorkshire will not suffer disproportionately in the cutbacks to come, a superfast roll-out in North Yorkshire would not only boost rural business, it would also go a long way towards demonstrating that the new administration is one that will keep its word.