If you were unable to win a place on Team GB for the Olympics, a wide range of sporting, horticulture and craft competitions will offer anyone a chance to shine at this year’s Great Aycliffe Show. Organised by Great Aycliffe Town Council, the very popular Show will be taking place on the showfield next to the Oakleaf Sports Complex on...

By Martin Walker Aycliffe’s own Angie Winstanley-Smith continues her Olympic dream as Team GB’s women’s water polo team take on Austrlia this evening. Angie, a former Woodham School pupil, scored an historic hat-trick against Russia on Monday night in Britain’s first-ever women’s water polo match in an Olympic Games, but Team...

A range of activities for young people continue during the school holidays, and there’s more on Thursday. Durham Council’s Extended School Services, working in partnership with Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) have produced a leaflet listing more than a hundred activities for youngsters in Aycliffe during the school...

Football training sessions are being held in leisure centres across County Durham during the summer holidays. The sessions, organised by Durham County Council, include On the Ball junior football coaching for young children and pay and play sessions for older kids. On the Ball junior football coaching camps are for children aged six to...

By Martin Walker Holiways Ford have this morning denied rumours they’re being placed into administration. Aycliffe Today had received a number of tip-offs in the last few days, claiming the 40-year-old car dealership was about to be placed into administration. But the company categorically denied it today, with managing director...

By Martin Walker A designer clothes shop has “Boola’d” into town after a local retail entrepreneur grew frustrated with the lack of fashionable menswear in Aycliffe. Newtonian Mark Shepherd opened Boola in Darlington before successfully relocating his shop to Richmond in 2008. And the 46-year-old former Woodham School pupil has...

By Martin Walker Angie Winstanley-Smith got her Olympic campaign off to a dream start with a hat-trick on Monday night, but Great Britain’s women’s water polo team lost their opening game against Russia. The 26-year-old Newtonian, a former Woodham School pupil, scored three goals for Team GB – including an equaliser in the final...

A whole host of activities for children and young people of all ages are available during the school holidays. Durham Council’s Extended School Services, working in partnership with Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) have produced a leaflet listing more than a hundred activities for youngsters in Aycliffe during the school...

Have you got what it takes to be a Local Broadband Champion? Durham County Council is appealing for local people and community groups to promote and represent Digital Durham on a voluntary basis, locally within their area. The Digital Durham programme aims to bring superfast broadband to the whole of the county and champions will...

People are being urged to join in the magic and fun this Saturday (4th August) when Hardwick Park hosts a new production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Laura Turner. A leading national theatre company, Chapterhouse Theatre Company, is currently touring the country with the play, which brings new life to a favourite childhood...