The Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is now an annual event at the Pioneering Care Centre in Newton Aycliffe and this year PCP is hosting a ‘coffee with crafts’ event. The Coffee Morning is taking place on Friday 26th September between 10am–1pm. In addition to the refreshments sold in the Mall Coffee Shop within the...

Local family firm Gregg Little Testing Centre is getting behind the town's football club with a new sponsorship for the 2014-15 season. The company, which has been based on Aycliffe Business Park for 25 years, has forked out £1,000 to sponsor the Northern League club's tracksuits. The deal is another example of the football club working...

Cruel thieves have targeted Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club's brand new score box for a second time. The latest incident happened in the early hours of Monday morning, when thieves got away with some of the players' kit. It comes just a few weeks after the new electronic score box, which was revamped in the summer thanks to GAMP funding,...

Road policing crews are taking part in a Europe-wide seatbelt campaign this week. The initiative will see officers from the Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit stopping vehicles where drivers or passengers are not wearing their seatbelts as part of the work carried out by TISPOL (European Traffic Police Network) all this...

Newton Aycliffe 0, Marske United 2 By Paul McGeary Allan Oliver was back in the home dugout but unfortunately it was a familiar story as Aycliffe were once again defeated – their seventh in nine games – on a lively Wednesday evening at the AuxAudio.co.uk Stadium. Marske, sitting fourth in the table with games in hand came out of...

A Newton Aycliffe woman who was sparred jail for being pregnant is now being charged with perverting the course of justice. Lisa Phillips, of Eskdale Place, was given a four-month jail sentence for theft last year, but the term was suspended after she claimed she was due to give birth. The 37-year-old denied a charge of perverting the...

Zoe Skerrett continues her weekly review of the X Factor... Much to my disappointment there was no controversy, no arguing and no disagreements on the X Factor this weekend. With only one act that caused a rife between the judges, everyone else either got through with four yes’s or went home with four resounding no’s. Although...

By Martin Walker A Newton Aycliffe firm came to the rescue of a family in the hit TV show Cowboy Builders. Aycliffe Business Park-based Roman, a leading UK shower designer and manufacturer, helped out when a home was left ruined by reckless workmen. The show, presented by Dom Littlewood (pictured) and Gabi Blackman, was aired on...

The North-East Chamber of Commerce has outlined the priorities that a new Government must address in 2015 if the region is to deliver on its true potential. As the British Chambers of Commerce launches its Business Plan for Britain, NECC has defined the priorities within the BCC document that will help the North-East maximise growth and...

Woodham Academy is hosting an open evening for parents of year 6 students who'll be moving to secondary school next summer. The school has produced a new interactive prospectus for parents, which enables parents and children to view videos within the printed publication, using the augmented reality App, Aurasma. Copies of the prospectus...