If the Trafford Centre lives up to the developer's hype, these long-distance shoppers may be heading there in future.

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Alan King, from the National Trust, said the "friendly" learning centre would be a distance from the house so as not to affect its appearance.

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To provide education for these groups, the National Centre for Non-Formal and Distance Education (NFDE) was established under the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (MECS) to coordinate all the efforts done at the national level.

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