Newton Aycliffe-based Harrison Creative has secured its first contract with Red Bull and supplied signage and branding for the UK national final of its Neymar Jr’s Five football tournament. Harrison Creative provided a range of products for the global five-a-side football competition, which offers the winning team the chance to play against...

A new partnership between Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre (NHC) and the National Measurement Laboratory @LGC (NML) is set to support industry partners across the North-East region. The three-year strategic partnership named the Metrology for Biosciences and Healthcare Innovation Partnership (MetBioP), will aim to advance...

An opportunity to join one of the top-performing police forces in the country launches next week as applications to join Durham Constabulary opens on July 16. The force is looking for individuals who are hardworking, can apply common sense, relish a challenge and possess a minimum of two A Levels. In return, the force is offering a generous...

Robotic lawnmower manufacturer, Husqvarna, is a company that takes pride in growing its own talent. Peter Barron visits the well-trimmed Aycliffe site to find out more… By his own admission, Rufus Ayre had no clear idea what career path he was cut out for when he left college after a working-class upbringing in County Durham. All he knew was...

A North-East charity is appealing for volunteers to join a befriending service to improve mental health. Newton Aycliffe-based Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) launched Every Call Counts (ECC), a free phoneline service in 2020 that is dedicated to supporting people through isolation with a friendly support network. The phoneline has proven...

By Paul Dalton Undoubtedly the most popular race amongst members this week was the Pie and Peas 5K Trail Race, which took place in Trimdon on Wednesday, June 30. Serving as one of the club’s Championship races, it meant that valuable points were up for grabs. Set off in waves to ensure the race remained Covid-secure, members had to...

Former Woodham Academy Art student Alivia Hoy has been crowned North East ‘Artist of the Year’ 2021. Alivia’s work, an acrylic painting of her sister, who still attends Woodham Academy, stood in front of a wild seascape, wowed the judges (Artists Stuart Jones and Emily Ward and Dr Solomon Lennox, Head of Northumbria University Arts...

A new campaign from destination management organisation Visit County Durham inspires consumers to ‘Escape the Everyday’ in Durham this summer. The campaign, which received grant funding from VisitEngland’s Destination Management Organisations’ (DMO) Recovery Marketing Fund, will see local recovery marketing activities delivered by Visit...

By Bob Wood Newton Aycliffe FC's second pre-season fixture saw them come out with their first win having finished on the end of a 1-3 defeat, albeit in respectable fashion, against Vanarama National League North side Spennymoor Town prior. It was the Wearside League visitors who took the lead early on when the referee's assistant flagged for...

Drivers who put the lives of others at risk are being encouraged to change their ways as Durham Constabulary launches three new safety camera vans. The force’s Road Safety Bureau (RSB), which was launched in 2020, has been targeting those who continue to flout the rules of the road by speeding, not wearing seatbelts or using mobile...