Thousands of lives could be saved each year by improving cancer care for people in rural areas an event will be told today. Patients living in the countryside have been speaking about how they face long journeys to access treatment as well as the impact of rural life on awareness campaigns and screening services, and today’s meeting will try to find practical ways to improve this.

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A conference will be told today what schools can do to ensure the safety of pupils when they are online. Research by Oftsted has found that children in schools with managed online systems have a better understanding of how to stay safe when using new technologies than those limited to locked systems.

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The study has found considerable support for the concept of MAAs amongst both local and national players. It concluded that working at the level of the functional economic area is necessary for certain types of intervention and that the stress on economic development is appropriate.

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