The Barn Owl restaurant is a training facility of Oldham College in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England.
Recently (October 2007) the restaurant hit the headlines after the College's decision to close it.
A petition has been started to enable the students, people of Oldham, and anyone else who cares about the restaurant, to sign up to state their disapproval at this decision.
The petition is available at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/BarnOwl1/petition.html
The Park Inn in Shaw, Oldham is fully supporting the reversal of the decision to close. Many of its' customers have signed the petition and the pubs website has a page dedicated to keeping customers up to date with the latest in the campaign to reverse the decision. See http://www.parkinnshaw.co.uk for more information.
The campaigners hope to get the backing of celebrity chefs Paul Rankin, Rick Stein, Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay.