Durham County Council has won a national award for its work to support children and families across County Durham. The local authority’s youth justice service has enjoyed success at the Children and Young People Now Awards, with its Parenting Support Group winning the Family Justice Award. Despite the pressures of responding to the...

Aycliffe Business Park tech firm Excelpoint is celebrating getting more than 500,000 users worldwide for its innovative no-code software. No-code software is becoming a buzz term across the software sector – with Excelpoint deploying no-code solutions now for more than 20 years. Based at The Work Place on Aycliffe Business Park,...

Landmarks in County Durham have been lit up to call on residents to remember to fill in their census surveys on Sunday (March 21). With households across the county in the process of receiving letters detailing how to take part, Durham County Council and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are reminding residents to complete their survey...

Whilst government advice to work from home is likely to continue until at least Easter, Ben Healey from Greystone Legal answers some frequent questions regarding employees WFH. Do my employees have to WFH? Employees should only attend their workplace when they cannot reasonably work from home. Employers should take "every possible step" to...

Female staff at Durham County Council have been sharing their experience of working in traditionally male-dominated roles, as part of this year’s International Women’s Day. In order to celebrate this year’s theme, Choose to Challenge, the local authority hosted a webinar for County Durham schoolchildren, encouraging them to question...

Work is set to begin on a major business park for County Durham, paving the way for 4,000 new jobs and a £400m boost to the economy. Durham County Council is to begin work on the park at Aykley Heads, at Durham City, having already pledged £6m to the project’s first phase. The remaining £6m phase one comes from the government’s...

Thanks to funding secured through Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership, Junction 7 in Newton Aycliffe have successfully supported families across the area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Junction 7 were successful in applying for and securing two grants through the GAMP Covid-19 Area Budget fund, to help them provide much-needed food,...

Sara Davies MBE has been named as one of the ‘10 Most Admired Businesswomen to watch in 2021’ in an international publication. The Newton Aycliffe-based entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den investor featured on the front cover of US-based CIO Views magazine to celebrate 10 businesswomen to watch throughout the year. Sara was the only...

A prominent Labour councillor has praised the government’s spring budget – but still thinks they could have done more for the NHS, council coffers and climate change. The Tees Valley region was one of the standout, if not the biggest winner from chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget last week. With Treasury North coming to Darlington –...

Durham County Council has set out its priorities and expectations for supporting levelling up for its communities and the economy as the county emerges from the devastating impact of the pandemic. The authority’s Cabinet will be asked to acknowledge that an initial investment of at least £500m is required from government levelling up and...