Wide-ranging plans to invest more than £112m in frontline services and major development projects in County Durham will be considered next week. The investments are outlined in Durham County Council’s Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP), which sets out the authority’s spending plans and priorities for 2021-22 to 2024-25. Despite the...

Newton Aycliffe charity the Pioneering Care Partnership has achieved Gold accreditation by Investors In People. Their recent report praised PCP for its “trust, transparency and empowerment” and for it being a great place to work. Internationally over 50,000 organisations are accredited by Investors in People with only 17% of them...

Tekmar Energy has won a new contract from cable manufacturer Prysmian Group to supply its Generation 10 TekTube Cable Protection System (CPS) for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in the UK. The 450MW NnG project, jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB, is located in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Once complete the project has...

Would you put yourself at risk by getting behind the wheel drunk? No? Then why would anyone consider using your mobile phone whilst driving is ok? The distraction caused by even looking at your phone whilst driving can cause similar risks to driving drunk and that’s including the hands free! It has been recognised for some time as a...

Aycliffe tech firm Excelpoint has appointed two new business development managers to further extend its growth. Throughout the global pandemic, Excelpoint’s team has continued to work from home, supporting customers to efficiently and effectively introduce remote working, enabling workforces worldwide to access central systems and...

A County Durham project which helps people with disabilities find employment has won multi-million-pound funding to establish its service. Durham County Council has been successful in its bid for £3.6m from the European Social Fund (ESF) to set up a new supported employment service for people with disabilities. The new service, called...

With the deadline for submitting freeport bids only six working days away, PD Ports has thanked over 100 customers and stakeholders for their support. Since Spring 2020, PD Ports and its independent expert advisers have been working tirelessly to support the Tees mayor Ben Houchen, who is leading the bid, as well as regional businesses and...

Households across Newton Aycliffe will be asked to take part in Census 2021 this spring. The census, run by the Office for National Statistics, is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. It has been carried out every ten years since 1801, with the exception...

Students from Greenfield Community College are taking part in a project that will help them explore their ambitions and aspirations. The group of young people are working alongside artist Richard Bliss in an Arts Council funded project supported by Greenfield Arts that celebrates the practices of ordinary people and how they thrived in places...

A five-year mission to cement the reputation of Darlington and the Tees Valley as one of the UK’s centres of bioscience innovation has been endorsed by a panel of leading industry experts. A bioscience industry workshop, organised by Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre, featuring leaders from national and international...