Academy go-ahead: The Government last night signalled the go-ahead for a privately-sponsored £25m city academy to be built in a North-East town. Council chiefs confirmed that the facility, which would bring together Hurworth School and Eastbourne Comprehensive, in Darlington, could open by 2008. The announcement represents a dramatic twist in the borough council's controversial plans to shut the schools and to create a new Hurworth School, taking pupils from both catchment areas.