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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Prince Charles gets go-ahead for farming school in Scotland

Prince Charles
Prince Charles is chair of the National Hedgelaying Society and has spent time practising the art on his farm near Highgrove in Gloucestershire. Photograph: Reuters

Prince Charles has been given the green light to build a new school for farming in Scotland that will aim to draw in people who have no connection to agriculture to learn traditional skills including one of his private passions: hedgelaying.

Planners have granted approval for an education centre at Home Farm at Dumfries House, the East Ayshire Palladian mansion operated by the Prince’s Foundation, one of Charles’ charities, after he stepped in to help save it in 2007.

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