March 24th, 201704778A fast-growing team of accountants has taken on more new members of staff after creating its own traineeship programme which has produced four new apprentices.
The Durham franchise of national network Certax has been based at Parson’s Court on Aycliffe Business Park since August 2013.
After impressive growth, partners Matthew...
March 23rd, 201733843New Intercity Express trains built in Newton Aycliffe have completed their first journey in ahead of entering passenger service later this year.
Hitachi, the company building and maintaining the new fleet from its purpose-built factory on Aycliffe Business Park, successfully ran the test train along the Great Western main line to...
March 23rd, 201702401The Aycliffe Juniors were involved in another great weekend of football both at Sunnydale and across the region.
On Saturday it was our Russell Foster League teams in action. The Under 7's continued their Spring Cup playing against North East Sport Spartans and won 3-0. They controlled the game from start to finish with lots of...
March 22nd, 201704782Around 100 jobs could be secured after a US firm confirmed it intends to invest in the Compound Photonics factory in Newton Aycliffe.
Kaiam Corporation, a US maker of datacentre transceivers, intends to acquire the manufacturing facilities at the Aycliffe Business Park site.
The acquisition includes investment by Compound Photonics...
March 22nd, 201732627Consumers in the North-East are losing an eye-watering £20m a MONTH on unused subscriptions, according to a report.
Research from the last three years shows that consumers in our region are throwing away an astonishing amount of money on subscriptions they rarely use including gym memberships, credit reports and TV streaming...
March 21st, 201712491More than 800 people have paid the price for breaching environmental laws during the past 12 months.
Neighbourhood wardens from Durham County Council have issued 803 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) for environmental crimes since 1 April 2016.
And of those who received fines for offences such as flytipping, littering and failing to...
March 21st, 201712410Woodham Academy’s Dance Academy have been practising for many performances and competitions this spring.
The first major competition was in Warrington at the Pyramid Parr Hall, a venue that is new to the students.
The Great Big Dance Off is a competition that the Dance Academy enter each year and thoroughly enjoy.
It is a...
March 21st, 201712154Following a midweek draw against Seaham Red Star, Newton Aycliffe gained a point away at Sunderland RCA with a goalless draw.
Neither side played to the best of their abilities on what was a bobbly pitch.
There were no clear chances early in the game, Aycliffe then suffered a blow when centre half Liam Browne had to go off with an...
March 20th, 201717969Newton Aycliffe climbing facility Rock Antics has confirmed it intends to close at the end of the month due to a lack of footfall.
The facility’s owner/director John Crooks has told Aycliffe Today that “unless anything changes” he can’t see a way back for the struggling venture which opened less than two years ago.
Rock...
March 20th, 201703882Newton Aycliffe Rugby Club secured promotion to Durham and Northumberland Division Two with an emphatic win at the weekend.
Aycliffe 1st XV travelled to Seghill RFC needing only one point to be guaranteed a long-awaited rise to DN2.
And straight from the kick-off it was clear that there was going to only ever be one winner, with...
