Sinead Hinton and Ben Maxfield were recognised with for five years without absence from Greenfield Community College during a special ceremony. Head teacher Mr Priestley and assistant head teacher Mrs Stubbs joined them at Durham County Cricket Club to see them receive their well-deserved award and to add their congratulations to recognise...

It was a wet and windy welcome to the pitch for the Aycliffe Juniors football teams at the weekend. The Under 7’s Whites faced fellow unbeaten team Durham City Juniors. A hat-trick from Jack C was not enough to win the game with the final score showing an 8-3 loss. The Under 7’s Juniors travelled to play Wynyard Village Youth and after a...

The Pioneering Care Partnership in Newton Aycliffe is joining the Time to Change campaign aiming to end the stigma around mental health problems. Around one in four people will experience a mental health problem yet there is still a shame and silence about talking about how people feel. On World Mental Health Day last Wednesday (October 10),...

A transport expert claims to have found a solution to the health and safety issue which is threatening one of Newton Aycliffe’s oldest traditions. Aycliffe Town Council officers referred a new events sub-committee to road traffic legislation in a report – suggesting the local authority has been breaking the law with the way Santa has been...

Hitachi Rail is launching a brand new educational programme with Primary Engineer that will see 2,700 5 to 11-year-olds learn about engineering with the help of experts in the field. The announcement came after Rail Week (last week) and the initiative is part of the Year of Engineering campaign. It aims to help tackle a serious shortage of...

Independent councillors have accused the Newton Aycliffe Labour Party group of being “deceitful and sly” in proposing to scrap the traditional Santa tours. An events sub-committee has proposed to change the way Newtonians can enjoy the town’s much-loved Christmas Eve tradition, which would effectively stop Santa from touring the streets...

Newton Aycliffe 2, North Shields 4 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe suffered a 4-2 defeat at home to North Shields on Saturday. They started well in the gusty conditions, and Tom Gavin put them ahead on eight minutes with a screamer into the top of the net, after a good lay-off by Kurt Matthews. North Shields started to come into the...

Health and Safety – or ‘Elf and Safety’ – is to blame for Aycliffe Council’s proposal to scrap the 50-year tradition of the town’s Christmas Eve Tours. Pen-pushing jobsworths have referred Aycliffe’s new events sub-committee to road traffic legislation – suggesting the local authority has been breaking the law with the way Santa...

Members of the public have launched a campaign against a proposal to scrap the 50-year tradition of Santa’s Christmas Eve Tours around Newton Aycliffe. Hapless councillors on Aycliffe Council's events sub-committee have proposed to ditch one of the town’s oldest and much-loved traditions. The new committee, set up to try to rescue...

Engineers have paved the way for more than 3,000 new jobs and a near half a billion pound boost to County Durham’s economy. With £13m in Local Enterprise Partnership funding, Durham County Council has been preparing Forrest Park, a 52-hectare expansion of the North East’s largest industrial estate, Aycliffe Business Park. Now a major...