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The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is lobbying the government to provide grants for rural homes unable to get broadband.

Charles Trotman from the CLA will announce the plans at the Digital Dales colloquium on 26 February.

The event is aimed at those involved with community broadband projects in rural areas.

According to the Broadbandspeedchecker website, up to 1.5 million homes in the UK cannot get adequate broadband.

"The CLA is lobbying the government to introduce a series of broadband grants for rural areas at parish level," Mr Trotman.

"We are currently developing proposals and hope to send them to Stephen Timms (Digital Britain Minister) in the next two to three weeks."