March 28th, 201602401A range of exciting sporting activities will be available at Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre to keep children entertained.
There will be aqua fun, gymnastics and cricket sessions as well as swimming crash courses available at the town’s centre.
The activities will take place as part of Durham County Council’s School’s Out...
March 28th, 201602176Aycliffe Running Club runners have ventured far and wide over the last week, with runners competing in races in Gateshead, North Yorkshire, the Lake District and one runner even making it all the way to Portugal.
On Tuesday 15th March, club runner Judith Porter competed in the Falesia 5k in Portugal. Judith was holidaying in Portugal...
March 28th, 201601927Young artists have been working with Bewick Crescent Surgery and artist Vicky Holbrough to create artwork for patients to enjoy and be inspired by whilst providing a welcome distraction for their visit to the surgery.
Whilst creating the artwork, the young people on the Youth Cree project – a Public Health and GAMP-funded programme...
March 28th, 201601806Staff and students at Woodham Academy celebrated International Science Week by taking part in engineering sessions, visits to university and attending local primary schools to share the fun of science.
Professionals from the Institute of Civil Engineering and volunteers from Teesside University visited school to teach students the...
March 25th, 201602481Newton Aycliffe 3, West Auckland 1 (after extra time)
Durham County Challenge Cup final, Hetton
Newton Aycliffe lifted the Durham County Cup for the first time in the club’s 50-year history with an entertaining victory over West Auckland in Hetton on Good Friday.
Stunning extra-time goals by Dennis Knight and skipper Paul...
March 24th, 201602032Phil Wilson is said to be among a group of Labour MPs who vehemently oppose the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, according to an alleged leak.
A hit-list of Labour MPs, published by the Times, has reportedly been drawn up by Mr Corbyn’s political secretary, Katy Clark.
It claims Sedgefield MP Mr Wilson is among a group said to be...
March 24th, 201602803The region’s first University Technical College being built in Newton Aycliffe expects to open with around 200 students later this year.
UTC South Durham – an engineering and advanced manufacturing Centre of Excellence on Aycliffe Business Park – has already had 170 students from around the region buy into the new UTC...
March 24th, 201601749The seven councils involved in a multi-million-pound devolution for the North-East are due to meet today after the deal was thrown into chaos this week.
Gateshead Council announced on Tuesday that it rejected the proposed devolution deal having previously signed up to it.
And Durham County Council yesterday (Wednesday) decided to...
March 23rd, 201602161Altec Hydraulics, the North Shields-based specialist hydraulic engineering company, has announced a deal to acquire the assets and trade of Hydrofit Alliance.
Established in 2012, Newton Aycliffe-based Hydrofit Alliance had suffered recent challenges, particularly due to the market downturn in the Oil and Gas sector, leading the...
March 23rd, 201603168Newton Aycliffe’s Northern League side are preparing for the biggest game in their 50-year history when they take on West Auckland in the Durham Challenge Cup final this Good Friday.
But the Newtonians’ preparation for the game, which takes place at the Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground in Hetton-le-Hole, near Houghton-le-Spring,...
