Volunteers are helping to transform a commercial vehicle into a mobile community coach as part of radical plans to help occupy local youngsters in Newton Aycliffe. Nev Jones, owner of Aycliffe firm J&C Coaches, has donated a huge 70-seater vehicle to create what could eventually evolve into a mobile youth club. Nev has used the...

Car parts manufacturer Gestamp is investing in a range of new manufacturing developments to support four major new contracts. Gestamp – a multinational company which specialises in the design, development and manufacture of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry – has secured new long-term projects from Nissan, BMW...

Durham County Council and volunteers, who conducted litter picks to keep the County Durham coastline beautiful, are urging visitors to leave the beach as they find it. The local authority is reminding the public of the importance of tidying up after themselves and acting responsibly, following an increase in litter and reports of anti-social...

By Paul Dalton We start this week with the Quayside 5K, which took place on Wednesday, August 11, on the banks of the River Tyne. The race is an out and back along the quayside, with the last few metres taking runners across Millennium Bridge to the finishing line in Baltic Square. First home for the club was John Surtees in a time of...

Durham County Council and A Coruña Provincial Council in North-West Spain have signed a region-to-region tourism collaboration agreement. Endorsed at a hybrid meeting attended by representatives from both councils, the new alliance includes a collaboration protocol between the two regions, which includes the sharing of best practice in tourism...

In every issue of our Aycliffe Business magazine, we take a break and sit down with a different employee or business owner/leader to ask them 20 questions about a variety of subjects. In our latest edition, 3M Aycliffe plant manager Paul Hind answers our 20 questions over a cuppa… 1: What do you do? A: I’m the plant manager for 3M,...

Lee Weldon’s weekly round-up from the wicket… Saturday 14th August – NYSD Division 2 Barnard Castle 2nd XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – weather was overcast and cool. Newton Aycliffe won the toss and chose to bowl first. Barnard Castle 2nd XI 273 for 9 declared after 48.5 overs George Slatcher 3 for 47, James Layfield-Carroll 3 for...

A stolen quadbike was recovered from Eldon near Bishop Auckland yesterday (August 16) after officers used live tracking equipment to locate it. Officers were dispatched to the area by Northumbria Police who kept track of the stolen vehicle as it travelled across the force border and into County Durham. The search led officers to a disused...

Further funding has been approved for new equipment to assist the Community Speed Watch (CSW), in the hope to further improve road safety across County Durham and Darlington. The Community Speed Watch have recently received funding from the National Driver Rehabilitation Scheme (NDORS) to invest in new equipment to keep roads users...

Words: Paul Fraser Pictures: Chris Booth When Peter Robinson played with his brothers as a young boy, building camps in the woods and climbing the trees of Dalton-le- Dale, a small hamlet in County Durham, the world of work and careers was a far off place and one he didn’t really contemplate in those carefree days of childhood. Peter is...