By Martin Walker The boss of one of Aycliffe Business Park's biggest recent success stories is calling on fellow firms to get behind the town's football club. Aycliffe, currently in the Ebac Northern League first division, has revealed plans to allow the name of its ground, Moore Lane Park, be rebranded in a special corporate...

By Martin Walker Objections have already been made against a new 80-home development near Travellers Green in Newton Aycliffe. Plans for the housing development have been submitted to Durham County Council, by Gleeson Homes and Regeneration, for a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom properties near the disused garden nursery. The...

The final preparations are now being made for this year’s Great Aycliffe Show. The event is to be held on the showfield at the Oakleaf Sports Complex on August Bank Holiday weekend, 23rd and 24th August. The craft marquee hosts displays and demonstrations of a range of crafts and hobbies, with many of the items produced available for...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe engineering heavyweights Gestamp Tallent has expanded again by moving in to the former Sanyo site on Aycliffe Business Park. The car parts manufacturer - comfortably Aycliffe's biggest employers - has taken a 12-year lease on two new buildings totalling 10 acres to assist in its rapid growth. Tallent,...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe's cricket team produced arguably their worst batting performance of the season when they lost at Normanby at the weekend. Aycliffe's first XI were humbled by seven wickets away to Normanby's second XI, slipping further down the NYSD League second division. It was their second successive defeat after a...

By Martin Walker An ambitious County Plan, which could see Aycliffe Business Park become the biggest industrial estate in the North-East, will take one step closer to sign-off this month. Just over a week since the announcement of £10m-worth of Government funding to develop Merchant 2, a 48-hectare development adjacent to Hitachi Rail...

Six young players have signed on for Newton Aycliffe FC as the work of their youth development partnership begins to bear fruit. The Newtonians joined up with Newton Aycliffe Juniors FC last season, to work in partnership for the development of playing opportunities for players after they had left ‘junior’ football. NAJFC entered a...

Plans for a state-of the-art centre for skills, leadership and innovation in emerging technology sectors have been given the green light by Government. The Darlington-based National Horizons Centre (NHC) is a partnership between Teesside University, the Centre for Process Innovation, Darlington College, Darlington Borough Council and...

A man caught stealing from Tesco in Newton Aycliffe has been locked up for four weeks. As revealed by Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Team Sergeant Mark Edwards in his blog on Aycliffe Today, John Conlin, 35, from Stockton, appeared at Aycliffe Magistrates Court after having been charged with theft of eight computer games from Tesco and a...

By Martin Walker Local football stars Ross Turnbull and Jason Steele were the special guests at Woodham Sports Academy's annual awards ceremony this week. Football referee George Courtney, who used to teach at Vane Road School in the town, also gave a humorous speech before helping to dish out the awards along with Turnbull and Steele,...