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A CUMBRIAN peer is calling on all MPs in the county to help push for a Parliamentary inquiry into the closure of Newton Rigg College. Lord Dale Campbell Savours says he has been inundated with calls from the Cumbrian rural community calling on him to help save the Penrith campus due to close this summer. "If all the MPs in the county joined forces to push the Defra Select Committee to hold an inquiry into how the college has been run by owners, Askham Bryan College, then we stand a good c...

A CUMBRIAN peer is calling on all MPs in the county to help push for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the closure of Newton Rigg College.

THREE former MPs are calling for a Parliamentary inquiry into a controversial decision by a college to close a campus in Cumbria and sell off the site. The three Peers - Dale Campbell-Savours, David Clark and Sue Hayman - want a Defra select committee to examine Askham Bryan College’s actions in closing Newton Rigg in Penrith, which they claim is "asset-stripping" and will have a major impact on the local community. Askham Bryan took over Newton Rigg from the University of Cumbria in 2...

Pledge: A new Newton Rigg college could be on the cards A NEW independent agricultural college is on the cards for Cumbria. Thats the pledge from a group fighting to prevent the 125-year-old Newton Rigg agricultural college from closure in the summer with more than 100 jobs losses. This week the Further Education Commissioner deemed the Penrith college financially unviable and found no suitable bids were received to take it over. More than 500 students and apprentices attend but the FEC s...

A NEW independent agricultural college is on the cards for Cumbria. Thats the pledge from a group fighting to save125-year-old Newton Rigg college from closure in the summer with more than 100 jobs losses. Yesterday the Further Education Commissioner announced it deemed the Penrith college financially unviable and found no suitable bids were received to take it over. More than 500 students and apprentices attend, but the FEC said "most" courses and training could be found elsewhere. Own...

A group set up to save Newton Rigg College said it still had confidence in its plans to buy the campus. It was announced yesterday that the Further Education Commissioner-led Newton Rigg Strategic Review concluded it had been unable to identify an organisation to continue delivering sustainable land-based education at...

The Newton Rigg Campus in Penrith TWO former Workington MPs described the decision to close Cumbrias 125-year-old agricultural college with more than 100 jobs losses as shameful and very distressing. Dale Campbell-Savours and Baroness Sue Hayworth have joined forces with former cabinet minister, Lord David Clark of Windermere, in condemning the announcement this week by the Further Education Commissioner that Newton Rigg College at Penrith was financially unviable, and declared no suitable ...

Two multi-million pound bids which were resubmitted to secure a viable future for Newton Rigg College, in Cumbria, have been unsuccessful. The final

A final decision about the future of Newton Rigg has been announced. The final element of the Further Education Commissioner-led Newton Rigg Strategic Review has concluded that it had been unable to identify an organisation to continue delivering sustainable land based education at the campus, and that Askham Bryan College should continue with finding a buyer for the site. The review identified that most provision currently delivered at Newton Rigg can be provided in Cumbria by other post-16 FE...

THREE Cumbrian peers have called on the current owners of Newton Rigg College to lift the ‘wall of secrecy’ surrounding the institution’s…