The Newton Rigg Campus in Penrith
TWO former Workington MPs described the decision to close Cumbria's 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 bids had been received to take it over.
Former Shadow Cabinet member, Sue Haworth, said she had contacted every member of the House of Commons Defra Select Committee to carry out an urgent inquiry into the whole Newton Rigg College affair. "The whole business is very distressing," she said.