Freelance media consultant based in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Martin is a trained journalist, having completed his NCTJ newspaper journalism qualification with the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette. He has since worked for the media and publications team at Middlesbrough Football Club (2000-05) and the media department at Sunderland Football Club (2005-09) before setting up his own company, Mantis Media, in the summer of 2009.
He's now Managing Editor of Mantis Media Ltd, which has offices in Newton Aycliffe and Middlesbrough, and represents a number of clients covering a broad range of industries including construction, manufacturing, education, politics and sport, as well as managing and editing all Mantis Media publications including Aycliffe Today Business, Tees Business and www.aycliffetoday.co.uk
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July 8th, 201502253A round-up of the weekend's cricket action...
Saturday 4th July - NYSD Division 2
Whitby 2nd XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI - weather was hot and sunny. Whitby won the toss and asked Aycliffe to bat first.
Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 207 for 9 after 50 overs.
John Cavanagh 42, Luke Telford 40 and Colin Myers 27.
Whitby 2nd XI 209 for 5...
July 7th, 201505496Police responded to a report from the ambulance service yesterday at about 8.45pm that a boy had been stabbed in the Woodham Burn area of Newton Aycliffe.
The location was a grassed track just off Stephenson Way close to the burn.
A 15-year-old local boy was taken by ambulance to the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough where he...
July 7th, 201503998Click here to read the July-August 2015 edition of our award-winning Aycliffe Today Business.
This issue features ROF 59, NECC president Mike Matthews, DH Recruitment, Planet Leisure owner Darren Peckitt, Chris Lambert Engineering, Ebac, D&S Services, DPE Automotive, Phil Wilson MP, South Durham UTC, the Oakleaf Sports Complex,...
July 7th, 201502330An ambitious new recruitment agency has been set-up specifically to tackle the skills shortages in engineering and manufacturing.
County Durham entrepreneur Lisa Fleming has launched DH Recruitment, which is part of the successful Driver Hire Darlington franchise she started in 2011.
She has appointed experienced engineering...
July 6th, 201502027The Newton Aycliffe-based Education Centre for Children with Down Syndrome (ECCDS) is appealing for local votes as it strives for nationwide acclaim on BBC One in this year’s National Lottery Awards for its Learning for Life project.
The project, based at the Pioneering Care Centre, Cobblers Hall, beat off stiff competition from 620...
July 6th, 201502045A leading manufacturing and engineering group has announced the success of a progressive investment project, which saw the installation of one of the country's largest solar photo-voltaic energy systems.
Following an in-depth case study into sustainable power and energy efficiency measures across the group of companies, Shildon-based...
July 6th, 201501975A support group which helps people affected by cancer including their relatives and carers is celebrating securing funding from Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP).
Great Aycliffe Cancer Support Group was set up by Allison White in 2014 and now has more than 20 members.
The group meets every month at Newton Aycliffe...
July 6th, 201501934MP Phil Wilson has welcomed the announcement of plans to invest £10m at the struggling Durham Tees Valley Airport.
Airport owners the Peel Group says it’s pledging £5m to begin opening up the potential for attracting jobs and investment on land south of the runway.
A further £5m has also been earmarked, subject to the...
July 6th, 201501943North East businesses have indicated their workforce is growing at fastest rate in 20 years.
In its most recent Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) of members, the North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) has found that the workforce score is higher now than at any point since this survey started in 1995.
After surveying members from...
July 3rd, 201502110Councillors have given the green light for a solar farm to be built near Newton Aycliffe.
The application, by Lightsource Renewable Energy, is to convert two fields off School Aycliffe Lane into a solar farm that would generate enough electricity to power 1,200 homes.
In total the site would measure around 24 acres.
Members of...
