May 19th, 202101139
Durham County Council has been recognised for its housing strategy and work in tackling homelessness.
The local authority has been named local authority of the year at the Northern Housing Awards.
It follows its work to deliver more housing and investment in local services for communities as part of the County Durham Housing...
May 19th, 202104197
Plans for a waste incinerator on Aycliffe Business Park – which will include a 100ft tall chimney stack – have been met with anger from members of the public.
Local residents are complaining about the lack of consultation for the plans, submitted by Castellum Consulting on behalf of Fornax Environmental Solutions.
The...
May 19th, 202101044
Mobile and home-based businesses in County Durham are being given longer to apply for financial support designed to help them through the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this year limited fixed funding was made available by the Government through the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) which could be used to fund a discretionary...
May 18th, 202101245
By Adam Cayless
Prior to kick offs, all NAFC teams paid touching tributes to Jordan Banks with a minute’s applause, RIP little fella.
U8s Black’s hosted a good Leven Junior side this morning. Another improved performance against an excellent team whose passing, and finishing proved too much for them. Not the result we wanted...
May 18th, 202101152
The Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership (GAMP) has three public representative vacancies on the partnership board.
This is an exciting opportunity for local residents from the partnership area with a keen interest in the local community, to join a dynamic and proactive board who have successfully delivered a number of projects...
May 18th, 202101025
Newton Aycliffe-based tech firm Excelpoint has reported a significant increase in manufacturing-based businesses embracing its no-code technology to digitalise business-critical systems.
It has reported that the sector is embracing digital transformation to replace inefficient systems and processes with automated solutions to drive...
May 17th, 20210908
The Office of the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner has received an additional £421,488 from the Ministry of Justice to increase the number of independent sexual violence and domestic violence advisers in County Durham and Darlington.
This will allow our current independent sexual violence and domestic violence adviser services...
May 17th, 202101042
Joy Allen has started her new role as Police and Crime Commissioner for County Durham and Darlington.
She becomes the second PCC for the area, following the recent election held on Thursday, May 6.
Ms Allen met staff from the Office of the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner as well as the chief constable and is eager to start...
May 17th, 202101686
Aycliffe-based leading shower designer and manufacturer Roman has welcomed its four newest apprentices into different departments within the company.
Roman has recruited four new apprentices to add to the nine already working at Roman who are at different stages of an apprenticeship.
The Aycliffe firm has had an ongoing student...
May 16th, 202101458
Lee Weldon’s weekly round-up from the wicket…
Saturday 15th May – NYSD Division 2
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI v Saltburn 2nd XI (match sponsored by Unison) – weather was cloudy and chilly. Newton Aycliffe won the toss and chose to bat first.
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 230 all out after 44.1 oversAdam Randall 79, Michael Howe 68...
