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Redeveloping Stranraer Academy - a Priority

REDEVELOPING Stranraer Academy was confirmed as a priority in the council's schools investment programme at a full council meeting in Dumfries on Tuesday.

Councillors met to finalise a business case to put to the Scottish Executive and a bid for £95 million will be made.

And Stranraer Academy topped a list of three secondary schools and three primary schools targeted as key priority projects for redevelopment in the future.

The outline business case will be submitted to the Scottish Executive towards the end of the week and the proposals contained within it were all agreed by councillors after they were assured that the bid was just a starting point for negotiations and not a commitment to specific works.