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Northern Ireland agriculture colleges to get £75m investment >More in Edwin Poots (right) and Martin McKendry at Greenmount Campus, County Antrim © Kelvin Boyes/PressEye Northern Ireland’s agricultural college campuses at Loughry and Greenmount are set for significant refurbishment, following the announcement of a £75m investment programme to run from 2023-28. The work on the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) facilities will include new student accommodation and high-tech facilities to support student learn...

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...