By Martin Walker iPad swindler Kirsty Cox has been granted an early release from prison, it has been confirmed. A spokesperson for HM Low Newton in Durham, where Cox was serving her time, has told Aycliffe Today she was released this month after serving just five weeks of a two-year sentence. Cox duped hundreds of people out of...

A budding entrepreneur has been successful in launching a bathroom and kitchen installation business thanks to a council-supported venture. Newtonian Eddie Hall, of E Hall Installations, is Aycliffe’s most recent resident to secure funding via ‘Step into Business’, a scheme set up by the Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP)...

By Martin Walker A Newton Aycliffe distribution firm is investing £700,000 in a new multi-use building on its huge site as part of the group’s long-term growth plans to create employment. Stiller Warehousing and Distribution has plans to develop a two-and-a-half acre piece of land which adjoins its main premises on Ridgeway, Aycliffe...

By Martin Walker A Newton Aycliffe teenager has admitted to stealing from more than 60 cars so he can "wipe the slate clean". The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court last week. He admitted burglary of a garage in Bishop Auckland last year and stealing from a car...

By Martin Walker The world’s largest producer of garden care equipment which has a major Newton Aycliffe operation is showing its commitment to training up young people by taking on six new Apprentices. Swedish firm Husqvarana – which produces a range of Robotic mowers along with the Flymo range of products at its 45,000 square metre...

A North-East seafood business based in Newton Aycliffe has been enlisted to play a vital role in judging a number of awards for the 2014 National Fish & Chip Awards. Aycliffe Business Park-based Collins Seafoods - one of the country’s largest suppliers of sustainably caught Frozen at Sea Fish – were tasked with finding the most...

Newton Aycliffe FC were once again defeated at Moore Lane Park at the weekend. However, it wasn’t by scheduled visitors Celtic Nation, but by Mother Nature again! The forecast wet weather duly arrived on Friday afternoon, falling on an already wet surface and left the pitch completely unplayable by Saturday morning. And so still...

Newton Aycliffe police officers have swooped to arrest a young man suspected of blighting the town with a spate of recent vehicle crimes. Neighbourhood Police Team Sergeant Mark Edwards told us in his latest blog on Aycliffe Today about an increase in the number of incidents involving thefts from cars. And officers have today arrested a...

By Martin Walker One of the region's biggest providers of training in manufacturing and engineering says it is geared up to bridge the predicted skills gap, after the disappointment of a UTC for Newton Aycliffe being rejected. Ambitious plans to launch an engineering University Technical College on Aycliffe Business Park were announced...

Newton Aycliffe police are probing two bike thefts on the town. The bike pictured above stolen from the garden of a property in Osric Place, between 5pm and 8pm on 2nd February. If anybody has any information, please call the Aycliffe Neighbourhood Policing Team on 101, or message them on Facebook. Meanwhile, a red men’s Ideal...