ASPIRING Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls are invited to take a smallholding course.

East Durham College is running new pig, cattle, poultry, grassland and sheep management courses at its Houghall campus, near Durham City.

All will be four-hour sessions and held on Saturday afternoons during February and March.

The cost is £40 per person per session.

Weekend programmes are also available in March, priced £80.

Julie Carmichael, from the college, said: “The sessions will give prospective smallholders a real flavour of what’s involved on a day-to-day basis.”

For more information, call 0191-375-4700.