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Please come to a meeting on awareness of IT and the uses of the internet on Tuesday 24th May from 4-5pm at the Eden Rural Foyer, Penrith. Grow IT! in Eden is looking for community champions to promote broadband use in Eden. The initiative is funded by UK Online and based at the Eden Rural Foyer [...]

I wrote an article for yesterday’s Observer about our broadband campaign. Here it is, in case any of you missed it: This winter, 130 activists gathered to discuss superfast broadband in a village hall in Cumbria. They had come from 100 villages, by 100 paths. Ali had presumably travelled north along the shore of Ullswater, rounded Loadpot Hill [...]

A number of people have contacted me about the tender process for the broadband pilot. As an MP I cannot participate in tender negotiations. Those are conducted by BDUK and County Council and I am not privy to the details or design. My aim is to get my constituents the best superfast broadband network in Europe, [...]