Woodham Performing Arts Academy were delighted to welcome former student, Ryan Metcalfe, back to the school to deliver a session to current students. As a student at Woodham, Ryan was involved in the different performing arts opportunities that the school offered and has gone to have a very successful career in the world of theatre. Having...

Shildon 2, Newton Aycliffe 0 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe lost 2-0 in the Boxing Day derby away at Shildon. They were without leading goalscorer Dean Thexton and his absence reduced their threat up front, as they failed to score for the first time in sixteen games. Aycliffe started the brighter of the two sides, with Gez...

Woodham Academy students were paired up with local employers to take part in the school’s annual Apprenticeship Awareness Challenge. The competition forms part of Woodham Academy’s extensive programme of careers guidance and support. Teams from every tutor group in Year 9 worked with a partner organisation, including 3M, Lucite, South...

Residents can receive a helping hand with their Christmas clear-out thanks to a free tree collection service. Durham County Council are offering to pick up real Christmas trees for residents who book with the free service. Bookings for real tree collections can be made from now, until Sunday 12 January. The trees will be collected over a...

Santa Claus is coming to town! Great Aycliffe Town Council have finalised the big fella’s traditional route around Newton Aycliffe on Christmas Eve. There are 14 routes, so residents should check the times carefully for their areas. The 14 routes are: Route 1 – Travellers Green, Aycliffe Village and School Aycliffe  Approx....

In every issue of our Aycliffe Today Business magazine, we take a break and sit down with a different employee or business owner to ask them 20 questions on a variety of subjects. In the latest issue, Lemon Top creative director Steve Gill is in the Aycliffe Today chair… 1: What do you do? A: My official role at Lemon Top is business...

By Donna Reece This will be the final race report of the year and what a year it has been. Unfortunately, the final week of racing was an extremely quiet one in terms of racing, although our members were out taking part in parkruns (those that hadn’t been cancelled) and trail training runs. There will also be plenty of social training runs...

Generous council staff and elected members have donated thousands of festive treats to foodbanks across the county to help people in need this Christmas. Employees and councillors from Durham County Council donated throughout November to the appeal which asks them to buy an extra item, such as a Christmas pudding, crackers or festive biscuits,...

Residents in County Durham are being reminded of changes to rubbish and recycling collections over the Christmas period. Bin collections across the county will take place as normal up to and including Tuesday, 24 December 2019. The Wednesday and Thursday collections for week commencing 23 December will be two days later than usual, and...

The creators of Aycliffe Today Business have launched a new quarterly publication for the Sunderland and Durham region, Wear Business – the first issue, featuring Hays Travel owner John Hays, can be read on the publication’s accompanying new website wear.business. Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker and his business partner Dave Allan,...