Newton Aycliffe 6, Redcar Athletic 1 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe won impressively at home against Redcar Athletic in the League Cup on Tuesday night. The crowd at the Beaumont Landscapes Stadium were treated to seven goals as Aycliffe won 6-1 - off the back of their 4-0 league win over Penrith last weekend. Redcar are having a...

Woodham’s Sports Academy have had another highly successful launch to the year. The interest and participation in our range of activities has been particularly high, following a newly introduced Year 7 Activities Fair. The school has seen many new faces at all activities as well as dedicated older students. All sports have seen a higher...

By Donna Campbell This race report covers the first two weekends of October. The first, 6th October was a cross country race at Acklam, the first of the NSYD cross country league for this year. Our club had a great turnout for this race. Some of our youths took part in this with three girls taking part in the under 11 race of 1.25 miles....

Organisations across County Durham and Darlington are making a big noise this week in a campaign to raise awareness of hate crime. The Hate Hurts campaign is taking centre stage on social media during Hate Crime Awareness week, 12-19 October 2019. Earlier this year the area’s Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner Ron Hogg brought...

Greenfield Community College insists it has taken some positives from its latest Ofsted report, despite being told it needs improvements for a second time in just two years. The school says the Ofsted report from a September visit highlighted a number of strengths within the school and identified a “small number” of key areas for continued...

MPs representing the two train manufacturing factories bidding to win a huge contract have joined forces to urge the chair of an independent review into Britain’s High Speed 2 (HS2) to consider the economic boost the deal would give their respective constituencies. Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson and his Derby South counterpart, the former Foreign...

With the weather being a bit more forgiving this weekend there were several more of our junior teams in action compared to recent weeks. Under 7 Blacks played away against Hartlepool Youth although the boys didn’t get the result they wanted, the effort they put into the game was not justified. The boys are improving each game and showing...

As well as the Pioneering Care Partnership’s chief executive being shortlisted for Charity Leader of the Year, PCP celebrations are continuing after finding out they’re also a finalist for the highly-coveted North East Charity of the Year. PCP were nominated by Livin for recognising that to make communities great places to live we must work...

The number of stray dogs found in County Durham continues to decrease as partnership working keeps man’s best friend safely off the streets. Durham County Council in the past three years has seen a significant reduction of 29 per cent in stray dogs being picked up in the county. On 1 June 2017, a Public Space Protection Order for dog...

Tekmar Group has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of Pipeshield International from its founder Steven Howlett. It’s the third acquisition of the Newton Aycliffe-based group since its admission to AIM in June 2018 and is continuing the strategy to acquire offshore energy businesses. Tekmar says the deal further...