Fire and prison services to share new police college

The North’s planned state-of-the-art police-training college will be shared with the fire and prison services in a bid to overcome a potential £40m (€59.3m) funding crisis, it was confirmed today.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain is to put his integrated proposals to British treasury chiefs, who are now expected to rubber-stamp the overall £130m (€192.8m) costs as early as next month.