Lighting costs at one of the Tyne & Wear Metro’s repair and maintenance depots are being cut by 60% after a project to install 500 energy efficient lamps. Tyne and Wear Metro engaged County Durham lighting specialists Big Energy Ltd to help make their huge train repair and maintenance operation at Gosforth more energy...

Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker pens a tribute to Aycliffe FC legend Frankie Swinburne... Frankie Swinburne was no Sunderland fan, but he did his best Bob Stokoe impression when Newton Aycliffe won promotion to the Northern League first division a couple of years ago. Saturday 26th March 2011 was the date. A 6-1 victory at Seaham...

Newton Aycliffe manager Allan Oliver is asking Newtonians to get behind the town's football club in their six-match survival scrap. The Royal Blues face six home games during an action-packed 15 days as they bid to stay in the Ebac Northern League first division after two seasons in the top flight. It's been a rollercoaster 2012-13...

Our panel of three Aycliffe ‘experts’ give their predictions for this weekend’s game… One point is award for the correct result (win, lose or draw), and three points are awarded for the correct scoreline. Last time, doom prophets Dan and Glen took an easy point, by condemning the lads to defeat. Scores on the Doors: Glen...

NPT Sergeant Mark Edwards continues his regular blog on Aycliffe Today... As we move into the middle of April there continues to be changes within the team. We now have a new officer working on the team – PCSO Michael Hutchinson has taken over on Greenfields and Middridge and is fully embracing his role. Now two weeks in, it already...

Newton Aycliffe put in their best performance in weeks, but fell to a harsh 2-1 defeat to reigning champions Spennymoor that leaves the Royal Blues in the bottom three. Micky Rae struck late on to keep the visitors’ hopes of promotion alive, after Danny Lambert had cancelled out Gavin Cogdon’s free-kick. But Aycliffe created enough...

A young woman has been cautioned for a racist incident in Aycliffe at the weekend. The 20-year-old female was arrested for Racially Aggravated Assault after she used racist and abusive language towards staff at a local pizza shop, before throwing coins at the staff and causing injury, on Sunday night. Source: Neighbourhood Police...

Police are appealing for information after a Catalytic Converter was stolen from a car in the town. Between 12pm noon on Saturday 30th March and 9.30am on Thursday 4th April, a Catalytic Converter has been cleanly cut, removed and stolen from a Silver Ford Ranger vehicle on Stationdale in Newton Aycliffe. Do you know who did this? Did...

By Martin Walker Relegation-threatened Newton Aycliffe will welcome neighbours Spennymoor Town to Moore Lane Park tonight for a crucial Northern League clash. The Newtonians are hovering just above the first division drop zone with seven games to go. Third-bottom Penrith have five games in hand and are just a point behind Aycliffe -...

By Martin Walker A man has been locked up after embarking on an Easter Monday crime spree in Newton Aycliffe. On the evening of Monday (1st April), police officers arrested 30-year-old Paul Ramshaw in relation to a series of crimes that had been committed in Aycliffe area that day. Ramshaw, from the Peterlee area, had already appeared...