May 3rd, 201702497As part of a recent relaunch campaign Tesco Newton Aycliffe has donated £1,000 to the local youth and community centre.
Newton Aycliffe Youth and Community Centre is available to hire for a variety of activities such as meetings and seminars, training and educational classes, arts and crafts, dancing and exercise classes.
It also...
May 3rd, 201702025Newtonian Sharon Hutchinson has been appointed as the new vice chair of one of the region’s leading business networking organisations.
Sharon, who is practice manager at Stockton-based law firm Endeavour Partnership, was selected for the role at Darlington Business Club by the club’s chair thanks to her varied experience across...
May 3rd, 201702628Newton Aycliffe 3, Morpeth Town 1
Defender Dan Mitton won Newton Aycliffe’s Player of the Year award as the Newtonians ended their season on a high with a home win over league runners-up Morpeth Town.
At the club’s presentation night, chairman Allan Oliver paid tribute to the management team of Deano Browne and Danny Mellanby,...
May 2nd, 201702472Woodham Academy held its annual Friendship Day which was attended by students due to start at the school in September 2017 and their parents.
There were a wide variety of activities for young people to take part in over the course of morning which allowed them to get a taster of what secondary school life is like.
These included...
May 2nd, 201702247A round-up of the weekend’s bank holiday cricket action...
Saturday 29th April – NYSD Division 2
Shildon Railway 1st XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – weather was dry and sunny. Shildon won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 213 for 8 after 50 overs
Michael Howe 55, Subhan Christudas 36 and Adam Gittins...
April 28th, 201705230A Newton Aycliffe man has launched an ambitious bid to bring back the once traditional Great Aycliffe Show.
Married father-of-three Russ Gibson wants to relaunch the annual event, which was dropped by Aycliffe Town Council in 2015 due to budget cuts and replaced with smaller festivals around the town, in the summer of 2018.
The...
April 27th, 201703368The two secondary schools in Newton Aycliffe could lose up to 19 teachers between them as part of stinging Tory cuts to the education system.
A new funding formula set out by the Conservative government will lead to redundancies, it was claimed during a heated Parliamentary debate.
And Aycliffe is set to be hit hard by the...
April 27th, 201703013A week-long crackdown on speeding drivers saw almost 80 drivers per day caught going too fast across Cleveland, County Durham and Darlington.
The Cleveland and Durham joint specialist operations unit (CDSOU) launched the operation on Monday, April 17, in support of a Europe-wide campaign aimed at reducing speeds and improving safety...
April 27th, 201713161Newton Aycliffe Rugby Club have shown an incredible turn around in form over the past five years, going from a club close to folding to a thriving hub of rugby with two successful teams.
This was no more evident than at their ‘promotion party’ last Saturday, where over 50 players took to the pitch representing NARUFC.
The...
April 27th, 201702194There will be no changes to bin collections in County Durham over the two bank holiday weeks in May.
Householders should put out their refuse, recycling and garden waste bins at the kerbside as normal during both bank holiday weeks, commencing Monday, 1 May and Monday, 29 May 2017.
Anyone wanting to find out their bin collection...
