When she got out of hospital, wearing a hip cast, she discovered that a rural school was no place for a student who was unable to walk.

Every month a small rural school closes its doors: 200 more may shut by 2014.

The new bill found more support by exempting rural school districts.

The school continued as rural school until in the 1980s.

The second school was classified as a consolidated rural school.

A number of new houses have been constructed since 1990; transforming the size and nature of this rural settlement.

The rural settlement grew into a major residential and professional community.

The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 692 hectares.

In contrast, public servants feared being forced into the rural settlement.

Traditionally, a village green was often common grassland at the centre of an agricultural or other rural settlement, and was used for grazing.

The couple had been struck on their tour of the rural south by signs of increasing water scarcity.

The rural south feels strange, exciting.

It quickly began to flourish in the poorer, more rural south.

In the rural south in particular, hokum held on.

A rural town that's too quiet, with bated breath.

This rural town will once again be taken over by all things woolly during its annual sheep festival.

Or could it be that there are enough, but not enough are willing to make the cultural adjustments necessary to minister in an obscure rural town?

A network of cameras that monitors every car going in and out of a small rural town will continue operating even though it breaches privacy laws.

Places classified as 'rural town and fringe' boasted an average age of 50, compared with 35 for those living in 'major urban conurbations'.

Rural tradition says that the cries of plovers (a wading bird) are the lamentations of lost souls.

Supporters say that trail hunting has enabled the social and logistical infrastructure of a centuries-old rural tradition to survive.

Paradoxically, a rural tradition was revived through the experience of industrial settlement.

They cast themselves as curators of rural tradition and 'regulators' of the pest population.

The band was a community-based band in a rural tradition.

Not very romantic but over the years extremely useful and necessary in our rural village.

When he hears a larger-than-life tale or spots a filler article about triumph-over-adversity in a rural village, his heart jumps.

You don't expect this in a small rural village.

Instead, a good number remained when it returned to being a tranquil rural village.

I am slightly shocked that such a theme would be considered acceptable in our quiet, rural village.

That fantasy's been cut to 85 per cent, delighting rural voters.

Democrats picked up ground among young and rural voters.

However strange it may seem to the metropolitan political elite, foxhunting inspires deep support among many rural voters.

He borrowed ideas from green lobby groups, offered sensible legislation and made an effort to listen to the concerns of farmers and rural voters.

But if the facade cracks, if these rural voters begin to believe they have been misled, then the rock-solid patriotic support could become something else.