Young people with autism will get the chance to learn life skills like cooking, cleaning and socialising - at a new dedicated facility at Weston College, which they reckon's the first of it's kind in the country.

They've bought the Weston Bay hotel on the seafront and are gonna turn it into a Special Needs Academy, where students can board and attend classes.

Barbara Titmuss from the college says the work needs to be done quickly for it to open in September:

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