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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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 The Countryside Alliance handed out its “Rural Oscars” at a Parliamentary reception on Wednesday 3rd February. British titles have gone to businesses from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Worcestershire and Dumfries, political awards went to Sir Alan Beith MP and Philip Dunne MP and the Rural Hero of 2009 Award went to Lincolnshire’s Agricultural Chaplain, Rev Canon Alan Robson.
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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 The Countryside Alliance Awards will culminate at a reception at Parliament on 3rd February. Ahead of this, however, on Saturday 30th January 2010, the Daily Telegraph will announce the winner of its own category, the Traditional Business Award, in the Weekend section of the paper. Our 12 regional winners from across Britain are hot contenders for the title. Below, Countryside Alliance staff who judged each outfit sum up why their local business is the best.
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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 The Countryside Alliance has announced its five-strong shortlist of Rural Heroes of 2009. Lincolnshire’s Agricultural Chaplain, an angling champion, a rural pharmacist, a farm park owner and an alternative education pioneer will go head to head in a bid to be crowned Countryside Alliance Rural Hero of 2009.
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 |
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Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart introduces 2009's regional winners in the Countryside Alliance Awards: With the continuing bad weather bringing untold misery across the country, some good news is very welcome. This week we have announced the regional winners in the fifth annual Countryside Alliance Awards, and businesses from Devon to Kent, Herefordshire to Kintyre are celebrating becoming regional champions. |
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
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 The fifth annual Countryside Alliance Awards are entering the final phase now that all but three regions have declared their winners of 2009. Bad weather has hampered judging in Yorkshire, the North East and Wales, but other regions have now declared. Find out this year's declared regional champions here. These champions all go forward to the Grand Final, and the judging panel will meet on 19th January to select the champions. Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart will chair the panel, which also includes celebrated local food champion Clarissa Dickson Wright and Daily Telegraph columnist Charlie Brooks. Overall winners will then be annuounced at the Grand Final reception, to be held at Parliament on 3rd February. Congratulations and the best of luck to all regional winners.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
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 On Thursday 10th December, the Daily Telegraph published a review of the rural decade. In "The Noughties: Ten years of a labour government have left the countryside more united than ever" Adrian Tierney-Jones wrote: "Rural communities have survived the decade with renewed resolve". The Alliance's Head of Media Tim Bonner observed that it has been a parlous decade due to wrong priorities: "Foot-and-mouth, Bovine TB, post office closures and, of course, the Hunting Act dominated the political agenda when real rural issues like affordable housing, local services and the rural economy should have been the political priorities."
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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 In the Daily Telegraph on Friday 20th November commentator Charlie Brooks wrote a powerful piece entitled "An uncomfortable truth about our food". The platform for this piece was the Countryside Alliance Awards, which the Telegraph supports. Mr Brooks blasted cheap imported food, which is reared abysmally, and praised British food producers' high animal welfare standards, writing "The message resonates loud and clear from the nominations made that people care passionately about where their food comes from". He also praised the regional finalists for "showing great ingenuity in helping their communities".
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