May 4th, 201783040Roller Derby’s National Championships return to Newton Aycliffe for a second time on Saturday (May 13).
Durham Roller Derby will be taking on league leaders the Wakey Wheeled Cats of Wakefield in the Northern Group of the 2017 British Championships, in a bout to be hosted at the Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre.
Roller Derby is an...
May 4th, 201703123There’s a host of opportunities for companies to grow and thrive in Newton Aycliffe through a tailored package of support from Business Durham...
Newton Aycliffe is a fast-growing business success story underpinned by a diverse mix of companies – from manufacturing and engineering, to creative industries and...
May 4th, 201702497A round-up of news from Aycliffe Running Club...
The first event in the Summer Tees Trail series of 5k races took place on Wednesday 19 April at Newham Grange Farm. Conditions were ideal for running and the gently undulating course took you round the farm area then into the woods before returning the same way.
Dez Fielden was first...
May 3rd, 201702532As part of a recent relaunch campaign Tesco Newton Aycliffe has donated £1,000 to the local youth and community centre.
Newton Aycliffe Youth and Community Centre is available to hire for a variety of activities such as meetings and seminars, training and educational classes, arts and crafts, dancing and exercise classes.
It also...
May 3rd, 201702060Newtonian Sharon Hutchinson has been appointed as the new vice chair of one of the region’s leading business networking organisations.
Sharon, who is practice manager at Stockton-based law firm Endeavour Partnership, was selected for the role at Darlington Business Club by the club’s chair thanks to her varied experience across...
May 3rd, 201702659Newton Aycliffe 3, Morpeth Town 1
Defender Dan Mitton won Newton Aycliffe’s Player of the Year award as the Newtonians ended their season on a high with a home win over league runners-up Morpeth Town.
At the club’s presentation night, chairman Allan Oliver paid tribute to the management team of Deano Browne and Danny Mellanby,...
May 2nd, 201702520Woodham Academy held its annual Friendship Day which was attended by students due to start at the school in September 2017 and their parents.
There were a wide variety of activities for young people to take part in over the course of morning which allowed them to get a taster of what secondary school life is like.
These included...
May 2nd, 201702286A round-up of the weekend’s bank holiday cricket action...
Saturday 29th April – NYSD Division 2
Shildon Railway 1st XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – weather was dry and sunny. Shildon won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 213 for 8 after 50 overs
Michael Howe 55, Subhan Christudas 36 and Adam Gittins...
April 28th, 201705264A Newton Aycliffe man has launched an ambitious bid to bring back the once traditional Great Aycliffe Show.
Married father-of-three Russ Gibson wants to relaunch the annual event, which was dropped by Aycliffe Town Council in 2015 due to budget cuts and replaced with smaller festivals around the town, in the summer of 2018.
The...
April 27th, 201703390The two secondary schools in Newton Aycliffe could lose up to 19 teachers between them as part of stinging Tory cuts to the education system.
A new funding formula set out by the Conservative government will lead to redundancies, it was claimed during a heated Parliamentary debate.
And Aycliffe is set to be hit hard by the...
