October 22nd, 201801696A number of businesses and people have offered their vehicles and services for the annual Santa Tours, following Aycliffe Today’s successful online and social media campaign.
Great Aycliffe Town Council says it should now have enough vehicles for the traditional Aycliffe event on December 24 after local firms came forward.
Humbug...
October 22nd, 201801605Thrive Marketing has been working with the team behind a new UK medical charity to produce a brand identity and website.
The Aycliffe Business Park-based agency has previously offered their services for charity before, but creating a new brand and website as a charitable offer was a first for the company, something which the company...
October 21st, 201801871Emergency services and families who have lost loved ones in car crashes have joined forces to deliver a hard-hitting road safety campaign in Newton Aycliffe.
The parents of Nick Davidson and Michael Sanderson told teenagers at ‘WiseDrive - Drive for Life’ that their lives would never be the same following the death of their...
October 21st, 201801379Hebburn Town 1, Newton Aycliffe 3
By Dave Strickland
Newton Aycliffe travelled to third placed Hebburn Town and came away with a well-deserved 3-1 win.
They were the better side throughout the match. They went ahead on eleven minutes when Vincent Gash latched onto a James Winter kick downfield and finished smartly past Hebburn...
October 19th, 201802543Newton Aycliffe family-run firm Stiller Warehousing and Distribution has created capacity for jobs growth with the opening of its new £2m distribution centre.
After an eight-month construction project, which supported dozens of local jobs by utilising nearby contractors, the state-of-the-art facility is expected to improve...
October 19th, 201801426By Donna Campbell
It has been another great week of racing for ARC with members competing in races far and wide.
The racing began on Saturday 13th October 2018 with Mark Wade who travelled to Glenridding in the Lake District to compete in the Helvellyn 10k. The race went ahead despite the weather which caused flooding in the local...
October 19th, 201801963A senior figure from the Bank of England said he was “heartened” by a recent visit to Aycliffe Business Park.
Andy Haldane, chief economist and the executive director of monetary analysis and statistics at the Bank of England, chatted to company representatives during the visit, which was organised by Aycliffe Business Park...
October 18th, 201802230Newtonian Dan Lewis completed an extraordinary trilogy for charity last week, as his sub-four hour time in the York marathon brought down the curtain on an epic series of challenges.
Raising money in the name of his good friend Paul McGeary – a two-time cancer survivor – 40-year-old Dan added over £1,200 to a bulging pot for...
October 18th, 201815325Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker delivers his verdict on a shambolic Recreation Committee meeting which descended into chaos…
Bob Fleming exceeded his own very high standards of arrogance during Wednesday night’s meeting.
The Great Aycliffe Town Council leader – his voice at times nervously quivering as he tried to address...
October 17th, 2018415533During a heated meeting of Aycliffe Council’s Recreation Committee on Wednesday evening, humbug councillor Bill Blenkinsopp snarled to members of the public “the Santa Tours will change – and if anyone is unhappy they should stand for election”.
The independent councillor for Aycliffe Village – blissfully unaware of the huge...
