December 13th, 201901799By Donna Campbell
This past week saw the start of the festive racing.
This began on Saturday with two of our members combining a weekend away in York with racing. Jayne Rudd and Marie Rudd both completed the York Yuletide five-mile race which is a two lap race across fields and through the woods alongside the River Ouse. Marie...
December 13th, 201922691The Labour Party has lost its grip on Newton Aycliffe after Conservative candidate Paul Howell won the Sedgefield seat in the general election.
Mr Howell ended up winning with a comfortable 4,513 majority – polling 19,609 votes to Phil Wilson’s Labour candidate with 15,096 – in Thursday’s election.
It comes as huge areas of...
December 12th, 201902551Woodham Academy students have made it to the final of this year’s Durham Schools’ Choir Competition.
Both ‘Woodham Sound’ and ‘Advanced Vocals’ will take part in a vocal workshop, followed by a performance of their chosen songs.
A panel of judges will decide which choir will represent Durham at the North East Secondary...
December 12th, 201902025A new project being offered by Teesside University is enabling employed people in County Durham to learn vital new digital skills - at no cost to themselves.
The Digital Skills for Growth programme is part-funded by the European Social Fund. Delivered by the University’s School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, it...
December 11th, 201901404Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker on how the general election could play out in Sedgefield…
Phil Wilson faces arguably the fight of his life in this snap election – the third time in four years we’ve been asked to go the ballot box.
It’s expected to be a close call for the Sedgefield seat, with Newton Aycliffe playing a...
December 11th, 201901574The Conservative parliamentary candidate for Sedgefield in Thursday’s general election says he will fight for local authority funding – despite seeing crippling cuts under a Tory government.
Alarming figures, revealed by the independent campaign group Stop School Cuts, show how Aycliffe schools will be even more worse off in 2020...
December 11th, 201902575By Matty Bright
Although we are getting closer and closer to Christmas Day, the football remained a priority for our Junior sides that managed to get a match played in trying conditions.
Our Under 7’s played on Saturday morning in what was a frustrating game for the Aycliffe side. The lads’ confidence levels continue to grow...
December 11th, 201902058Twelve individuals from the county’s tourism industry have been recognised as ambassadors after successfully completing the ‘Welcome to Durham’ training programme, an initiative led by Visit County Durham.
The course was introduced by Visit County Durham in 2013 to provide businesses with the skills and resources to offer the...
December 10th, 201901678Paul McGeary’s tireless campaign to raise money and awareness for blood charity Bloodwise took a huge step towards breaking through the £40,000 mark with a recent hamper raffle organised by his mother, Mary Warke.
Paul was 33 when he was diagnosed with Leukaemia five years ago, and despite being in remission for 15 initial months,...
December 10th, 201903541The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, has said he “understands” why thousands of his party’s supporters will vote for Labour candidates like Sedgefield’s Phil Wilson on Thursday.
Sir Vince, who led his party to its best result in almost a decade earlier this year in the European elections, says...
