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Calls for Government to step in over future of Newton Rigg The Government must intervene to save Newton Rigg says the consortium behind plans to keep land-based education in Cumbria. Newton Rigg Ltd, which wants to open a new college on the existing campus near Penrith, says operator Askham Bryan College is ‘robbing Cumbrian Peter to pay Yorkshire Paul’. In a statement released this afternoon, it said there was outcry over the college’s plans to sell Newton Rigg’s land and farms but it was still fighting for Government intervention. A spokesman said: “We must not let the wool be pul...

Newton Rigg, which Askham Bryan College is putting on the market today and (inset) Tim Whitaker, the Principal and CEO of Askham Bryan College A YORK college has revealed that its campus in Cumbria will go on the market today despite a storm of protests - and has insisted that the sale IS legal. Askham Bryan College has been engulfed in controversy over the proposed closure and sale of Newton Rigg in Penrith, which culminated at a Defra select committee hearing in March, when MPs claimed the closure was an “absolute disgrace”and Askham Bryan was “financially failing” and needed to...

Plea for government to save Newton Rigg >More in © Publicity Plus The government has been urged to step in at the last minute to save Newton Rigg, Cumbria’s last remaining agricultural college, from closure. York-based Askham Bryan College, which owns Newton Rigg, revealed it had put the college and its assets on the market from Tuesday (4 May) onwards, prompting huge disappointment in the Cumbrian farming community. The two farms – Sewborwens Farm in Penrith and Low Beckside Farm in Mungrisdale – have been put up for sale throu...

Newton Rigg Campus CUMBRIA’S only agricultural college is to go on the market next week, along with its two farms. The owners of Newton Rigg confirmed that college staff had been informed on Thursday that Newton Rigg campus and Sewborwens Farm, in Penrith, and Low Beckside Farm, in Mungrisdale were being put up for sale through Savills Estate Agents from Tuesday, May 4 onwards. Remaining college staff, it is believed, were being given notice today, while the Farmer Network and the Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers, have been told they must leave by July 31. Bosses, York-based Askh...

Questions: Dr Neil Hudson, MP for Penrith and the Border MPs are calling on the Government to tighten the safeguards on the sale of land-based educational assets in light of the proposed disposal of Newton Rigg College campus and farms. The cross-party MPs on the House of Commons EFRA Committee are also warning of a skills crisis without Government investment, after they learned that the number of specialist independent land-based colleges has fallen by almost 80 percent in the last four decades. The 12-strong committee, which also includes Dr Neil Hudson, MP for Penrith and The Border,...