October 18th, 201602735Aycliffe students Jordan Kent and Curtis Craggs celebrated with their families the amazing achievement of five years without a day’s absence at Greenfield Community College.
The school’s head David Priestley and assistant head Mrs Stubbs joined them at the Riverside Stadium in Chester-le-Street along with Durham’s corporate...
October 18th, 201601874Another great weekend of football action for Aycliffe Juniors and some superb performances to report...
The Under 7's continued their great start to the season with a win away at Darlington TSC. Goals from Alex (5) and two each for Dylan and Thomas gave them the win on a morning where Alex was named man of the match.
The Under 9...
October 17th, 201601850This week’s Durham Oktoberfest, the region’s biggest engineering and manufacturing networking event, is now fully booked to exhibitors.
The event, at the Xcel Centre on Aycliffe Business Park, is in its ninth year and attracts hundreds of businesses from around the North East and beyond, who want to meet potential suppliers and...
October 17th, 201612466Newtonian Ben Wood returned to his hometown club from Shildon last week.
But the midfielder’s homecoming was spoiled by two successive defeats for Peter Dixon’s side as they slipped to sixth in the Northern League first division.
After a disappointing midweek loss at Whitley Bay last week, Aycliffe were hopeful of returning to...
October 14th, 201602734Work by Durham County Council to pave the way for an expected 3,200 jobs and an economic boost of nearly half a billion pounds is now underway.
With £13m funding from the Local Enterprise Partnership, Durham County Council is carrying out work to prepare the 52 hectare Forrest Park site in Newton Aycliffe.
This additional site...
October 14th, 201602052New homebuilder Chapter Homes has reported sales totalling £6.75m in the four weeks following the public launch of its first development in Newton Aycliffe in the summer.
The Durham-based company attributes much of the sales success to the launch of luxury show homes on the Eden Field site.
The three-bedroom Mason and Cuthbert,...
October 14th, 201612864Sarah Honeyman has taken up the position of inspector in Newton Aycliffe’s Neighbourhood Police Team.
Insp Honeyman takes over from acting inspector Mark Edwards, who had been filling the role since the sudden and tragic death of former insp Mark Hall in April last year.
Having served with Durham Constabulary for over 21 years,...
October 13th, 201601624Efforts to ensure County Durham’s workforce has the skills to meet demand are proving successful.
A report to Durham County Council’s Cabinet also states that further work by the authority and its partners is now needed in order to build on achievements so far.
The council’s Economy and Enterprise Scrutiny Committee carried...
October 13th, 201601781Newton Aycliffe Rotary Club has been honoured with the highest possible accolade by one of the region’s most senior officials – North East England’s ‘Rotary Club of the Year’.
At the North East England District Rotary Conference in Harrogate, Immediate Past District Governor Terry Long also honoured Newton Aycliffe with the...
October 12th, 201601599Durham County Council is working with police and schools to improve the support for children affected by domestic abuse.
Young people who see or hear arguments and violence at home often arrive for classes the next day upset and unprepared.
But now authorities are set to work more closely together, through Operation Encompass, to...