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05/04/2021
Business leaders and trade unionists have come together to condemn a move by York-based Askham Bryan College to close its campus at Newton Rigg.
The Yorkshire college plans to sell off the Penrith campus and its assets to bolster its own flagging finances.
But supporters from the business and trades union sector said this week that Newton Rigg had served the county well as a centre of land-based learning for more than a century and will be even more important in the future as agriculture changes to meet food production, environmental and trading challenges.