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, Ben Healey from Greystone Legal answers our 20 questions over a cuppa… 1: What do you do?A: I am a solicitor and partner of Greystone...

A Newton Aycliffe charity has offered their staff a weekly session to focus on wellbeing. The Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP), a leading health and wellbeing charity, have given their staff the opportunity to take a two-hour session out of their working week for activities to improve their overall mental health and wellbeing. Staff are...

Newton Aycliffe’s 2021 cricket season got under way at the weekend. Here’s Lee Weldon’s round-up… Saturday 17th April – NYSD Division 2 Blackhall 1st XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – weather was sunny and mild. Blackhall won the toss and chose to bowl first. Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 127 all out after 43.5 oversJack Slatcher 32,...

Councillors will be updated on County Durham’s health protection action plan and the indirect effects of the coronavirus pandemic on services this week. Durham County Council’s Cabinet will hear of some key health protection achievements, in an annual report overseen by the county’s Health Protection Assurance and Development Group...

EXCLUSIVE: Hitachi Rail’s chief operating officer for Rolling Stock UK Ross Nagle talks to Peter Barron about how the company has risen to the challenges of the past year – and is investing in the future at Newton Aycliffe... Pictures by Graeme Rowatt When someone with the global track record of Ross Nagle describes the team he works...

The two sitting Conservative MPs for Aycliffe North – including MP Paul Howell – are stepping down from their roles this year. Howell and Scott Durham, who were both also Conservative councillors for Darlington, are not running in the forthcoming Durham County Council elections. Tony Stubbs and David Sutton-Lloyd are picking up the Tory...

The battle grounds have been drawn for the forthcoming Durham County Council elections. Aycliffe Labour bid to defend their five seats of the seven positions available in the May 6 poll, with 27 candidates registered to fight for your votes. Tories step down as Lib Dems bid to take on Labour in Aycliffe North The full list of candidates...

Pioneering research into how persistent pain can be managed through virtual reality technology is being extended to find solutions for people trying to overcome the symptoms of long Covid. Since 2017, Teesside University has been one of the partners in the £2m (2.4 million Euros) VR4Rehab project, along with universities, hospitals and...

Civic leaders in County Durham will join the nation in remembering His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh this weekend. Cllr Katie Corrigan, the Chairman of Durham County Council, will lead a one-minute silence at County Hall, Durham, on Saturday afternoon. The event will be broadcast live via the council’s Facebook page...

Tekmar Energy has secured a new cable protection system (CPS) supply contract for an offshore wind farm project located off the Shandong Peninsula in North East China. The award follows two recently-announced CPS contracts for offshore wind farm projects located in the coastal province of Guangdong in South East China. Under the latest...