By Paul Dalton Despite the break for Christmas and New Year our members have remained active over the last two weeks. Twenty members started their Christmas Day with a parkrun, with the Club represented at the Darlington South Park, Hackworth, Roundhay and Sedgefield events, and two even managed to register Personal Bests (PBs) on Christmas...

The County Durham Growth Fund has awarded £1.98m in grants to 17 companies from across the county this year, which will create 278 new jobs. 2021 has proved a successful year in terms of demand for the £8.9m capital grant scheme, which provides financial support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in County Durham to help accelerate their...

By Paul Dalton We start this week with our usual round up from our local parkruns, with the club represented at the Albert, Darlington South Park, Hackworth, Hartlepool and Sedgefield events. At Albert parkrun, Gareth Kyle registered a new Personal Best (PB) for the 5K distance, running sub-18 minutes for the first time (17:53). Over at...

Residents in County Durham are being reminded that Customer Access Points and most other county council buildings will be closed over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Customer Access Points remain closed until further notice following the introduction of the Government’s Plan B winter response. In the event of an emergency, residents...

By Paul Blythe In the last round of fixtures before the Christmas break, we saw seven of our teams involved in action last weekend. Under 10’s Whites – played against Brandon. In a well matched first half, it was Jensen who kept the opposition out with a great penalty save. Tyler grabbed a goal early in the second half for Aycliffe. MOTM...

With pantomime season in full swing, two County Durham theatre venues are providing accessible performances of their Christmas shows, so that all audiences can share in the festive fun. Since late-November, Gala Durham and Consett’s Empire Theatre have been hosting their popular Christmas pantomimes with exciting performances of two...

As is the long-held tradition, Santa will make his Christmas Eve route around Newton Aycliffe this Friday night. Here's his busy schedule... Route 1 – Travellers Green, Aycliffe Village and School Aycliffe Approx. Time Area 3.45pm-4.10pm Travellers Green   Clarence Court   St George’s...

The last 18 months have been a bit of a rollercoaster for employment lawyers with the pandemic bringing periods of intense activity, but also quieter times while workplaces were closed and many employees were simply getting on with working from home. Correspondingly, the number of claims in the employment tribunal system had risen steadily...

Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has unveiled her blueprint for a safer County Durham and Darlington, promising to deliver on the improvements local people have asked for. The PCC has reached out to the communities in the Durham Police area in her first six months of office to understand exactly what areas of crime and safety matter most...

This year as part of Woodham Academy’s Christmas preparations they have been supporting Junction 7 to provide the local community with Christmas Hampers. Junction 7 is a crisis intervention charity who help people with a variety of needs such as housing and operate an emergency foodbank. Woodham wanted to help the charity and contribute to...