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This week : the cost-of-living crisis in the countryside. Some care workers are being forced out of their jobs because they can't afford the petrol. One care organisation has written to the new prime minister calling for an emergency fuel fund for care workers.
We hear from families living off the grid in remote parts of Northumberland. They have to rely on generators for electricity as they can't afford to pay the connection to the mains.
Elsewhere households which rely on heating oil, because they're not on mains gas - and there an estimated 1.5 million of them - are worried about how they're going to fill their tanks this winter.

Also we get reaction to the government's new Energy Bill Relief Scheme. One country pub in Cumbria welcomes the price cap for businesses, but is worried about surviving the winter. The Black Swan in Kirbky Stephen has already had to close two days a week due to staff shortages.

And the Council for the Protection of Rural England tells us what it makes of the government's "mini budget"which announced tax cuts and plans to 'liberalise planning rules' to release more land for housing, commercial development and infrastructure projects. Environmental campaigners are especially worried about relaxing the rules around fracking. The CLA which represents rural businesses and landowners welcomes the government's intention to reform planning laws and simplify taxes, it thinks it's necessary to boost the rural economy, but says it's difficult to see how the announcements will work in practice.