HRH The Earl of Wessex has presented Durham County Council with an award for its support of the Armed Forces community. The local authority received the Ministry of Defence’s Gold Award, as part of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. The award recognises employers who demonstrate outstanding assistance towards serving and ex-members...

Funding from Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) has been used to help a local residents association provide day trips for the local community. The funding secured through Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) via the Neighbourhood Budget allocations of County Councillors John Clare, Paul Howell and Scott Durham helped the...

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and even Captain America – they’ve all been spotted in Durham City. The awesome foursome are just some of the superheroes whom disbelieving visitors to Wharton Park were treated to a glimpse of. And it was a particularly evil baddie that they were here to fight – litter. The heroes, or mini-replicas of...

Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club’s junior development manager Adam Gittins has been named Coach of the Year at the Active Durham Sport and Physical Activity Awards for East and South East Durham. The awards ceremony, held at East Durham College last Friday, saw Adam nominated alongside six other coaches from a variety of sports, including...

To mark the centenary anniversary of World War One, Year 11 History students, Macy Cane and Joe Richardson, were selected to represent Woodham Academy on a visit to Ypres in Belgium and Northern France with the First World War Centenary Battlefields Tours Programme. The tour was to honour those who had fought and died in the First World War,...

Volunteer groups working on horticultural projects can still apply for up to £500 of funding. Funding can be claimed for a variety of projects, with previous groups using money to improve church yards, woodlands, local parks and allotments through planting and gardening. Applications are open till Friday 7 December. Once submitted,...

The footballing action continued for the Aycliffe Juniors teams over the weekend. There was some strong performances and great effort form the players across the age groups. The Under 7’s White faced Shotton Colts and it was a tight match with the teams level at 1-1 with five minutes left. It was Shotton though who finished the stronger team...

Newton Aycliffe residents can get their hands on a sack-full of festive gifts and decorations during a Christmas Fair next month. A range of unique, handmade gifts and decorations will be available during the fair on Saturday, December 1, from 10am until 1pm. The public are invited to bring along the family to enjoy story time with Santa and...

A Newton Aycliffe business which supports schools with a range of professional services is celebrating a major contract win from central Government. Avec Partnership, based on Aycliffe Business Park, has been appointed by the Department for Education to provide school resource management advisers as part of a national programme. The DfE will...

Newton Aycliffe 1, Newcastle Benfield 2 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle Benfield in an end-to-end attacking game which had lots of chances for both sides, providing plenty of entertainment for the crowd. Benfield had an early chance, with Slaughter getting on the end of a corner and just...