NEW Year will ring in the changes for a university college on Teesside.

Stockton Riverside College is to relocate its technology and pre-vocational centres to specially-adapted premises early next year.

Between January and April, curriculum provision will be moved to Richmond House on Thornaby's Mandale Triangle from its present home in three small units at Preston Farm Industrial Estate.

Only the polymers commercial operations will remain on Preston Farm, at the college's North-East Polymer Centre.

College bosses say the move marks a step forward while addressing many of the limitations in the present arrangements.