June 24th, 20250350Additional support and accommodation is now available for single households who are experiencing homelessness across County Durham.
Durham County Council has received government funding to establish a Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme (SHAP), to provide up to 32 bed spaces for people from County Durham who have been sleeping...
June 24th, 20250275Newton Aycliffe-based apprenticeship and commercial training provider NC Group has announced the appointment of Julie Knight, who joins the business as a fractional HR Leader at the board level.
Her appointment follows NC Group’s recent celebration of being awarded an Ofsted Outstanding rating, achieved at its first full...
June 23rd, 20250299Lee Weldon’s weekly round-up from the wicket…
Saturday 21st June – NYSD Division 3
Yarm 1st XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – the weather was very hot and humid. Newton Aycliffe won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Yarm 1st XI 278 for 6 after 40 overs
Will Dearden 3 for 65, Matty Greaves 1 for 41 and Jai Sander 1 for...
June 23rd, 20250274People are being invited to have their say on the future of two towns in County Durham.
Durham County Council is developing new Strategic Place Plans (SPP) for Newton Aycliffe and Shildon.
Already adopted for Spennymoor and Durham City, SPPs aim to create a vision for each town by identifying key plans and objectives individual to...
June 20th, 20250372As part of this year’s Future Business Magnates (FBM) project, Year 8 students at Woodham Academy have launched an innovative business idea designed to boost footfall in their local town.
Their concept, Crumb-ling Times, is a retro-themed café that serves traditional puddings from the 1960s to the 2000s.
The café offers a...
June 19th, 20250553Aycliffe Business editor Martin Walker talks to Aycliffe Business Park Community board members Thomas Prentice and Sarah Monk, who are leading ‘groundbreaking’ careers programme to inspire our future workers
A bold new initiative from Aycliffe Business Park Community is proving to be a game-changer in bridging the gap between...
June 19th, 20250264An inspirational intelligence specialist who has helped take some of the most prolific and dangerous criminals off the streets and found countless missing people has been honoured in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
Carole Johnson has spent most of her career working behind closed doors as manager of the sensitive Central...
June 18th, 20250324The 2025-26 edition of This Is Tees Valley will once again shine a national spotlight on one of the UK’s most ambitious and fast-growing regions – with local businesses and organisations invited to be part of it.
Now in its fifth year, this beautifully produced, annual national publication is produced by the publishers of Tees...
June 17th, 20250354Lee Weldon’s weekly round-up from the wicket…
Saturday 14th June – NYSD Division 3
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI v Sedgefield 2nd XI – weather was hot and humid. Sedgefield won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 295 for 7 after 40 overs
Tom Dearden 88, Matty Greaves 50 not out and Joe Teasdale...
June 17th, 20250288Award-winning health and wellbeing charity Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) has once again been accredited as a Living Wage Employer, reaffirming its commitment to fairly paying employees and creating a great place to work across the North-East and beyond.
PCP joins over 15,000 UK employers committed to ensuring their employees earn...
