Companies on Aycliffe Business Park are being reminded they have one week to enter into the park’s business awards event. The Make Your Mark competition is being organised by the Aycliffe Business Park Community Steering Group, with the support of Business Durham, and is designed to celebrate success. The ABPC Steering Group says it...

Match Preview – Saturday 23rd August, 2014 CONSETT AFC versus NEWTON AYCLIFFE Bell Vue Stadium. 3pm kick off. Struggling Newton Aycliffe will relish an away game this weekend after a horrific start which has seen them lose on all three occasions when they have taken to their home field. Standing in their way of defending their 100%...

By Zoe Skerrett Samantha McGarrigle has made her way to London to perform live on Friday night's Channel 4 show The Singer Takes It All. Since she got the all important phone call from the producers on Wednesday morning, telling her she'd made it to the televised programme, the Aycliffe singer has had to hectically get her things...

By Martin Walker A march to Westminster which has hit national headlines passed through Newton Aycliffe this week. A group of mothers from Darlington are recreating the 1936 Jarrow March against poverty and unemployment in the Great Depression. The march organisers, known as the "darlomums", say they don't want to "passively watch the...

By Martin Walker South West Durham Training (SWDT) has revealed it has been rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted after a series of year-long improvements. The Newton Aycliffe training provider, based in the heart of Aycliffe Business Park, has been given the stamp of approval under the Further Education and Skills inspection report, which...

Amidst the celebrations at Woodham Academy on GCSE results day, there were tears of joy for one student and her mother. Kimberley Hall nervously opened her envelope to find that she’d passed every subject, with grade As in English, English Literature and History. Two years ago, Kimberley was diagnosed with cancer. She spent a full year...

Woodham Academy students were celebrating today after achieving the highest GCSE grades. Over a quarter of students gained 3 or more A* to A grades and 26% achieved English Baccalaureate recognition. This is a combination of GCSE subjects across the curriculum and shows a breadth of curriculum knowledge. Amongst this years high fliers...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe’s Samantha McGarrigle has made it into the top five of this week's The Singer Takes It All competition and is set to appear on Friday night's show. The Singer Takes It All is a new singing game show, hosted by Alan Carr, where the audience has the power to choose who goes and who stays by using their...

Newton Aycliffe 1, Bedlington Terriers 2 Newton Aycliffe slipped to their third straight home defeat of the season, with an underwhelming performance against Bedlington Terriers on Wednesday night. The visitors came into the game with just one point from their three Northern League games to date and sitting just above the relegation zone...

Art lovers still have a chance to see the Norman Cornish exhibition “Bishops Close Street” at The Greenfield Gallery. But you’ll have to be quick – after more than 1,000 visitors, the exhibition is due to close on Wednesday 3rd September. The works includes some recently discovered work, as well as a great selection of...