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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December 4th, 201503432Staff at a Newton Aycliffe printing firm have been laid off just three weeks before Christmas.
Company bosses at Addo Printing on Aycliffe Business Park, which bought out the crippled HPM Group just over a year ago, say the future is “unknown” after all employees were made redundant on Wednesday.
Addo managing director Keiran...
December 3rd, 201503531An X Factor trio is set to rock Newton Aycliffe town centre during a special celebration of Christmas this weekend.
Josh Daniel, Kerrianne Covell and Karen Harding form the highlight entertainment during Saturday’s X Factor-themed street party, which kicks off at 1pm.
Josh, 22, from Billingham, famously reduced Simon Cowell to...
December 3rd, 201502085Newton Aycliffe MP Phil Wilson voted in favour of extending air strikes in Syria during Wednesday night’s controversial Commons vote.
Mr Wilson – the Labour MP for Sedgefield – was one of less than 160 MPs who were given time to have a say during the marathon 10-hour debate.
He said he believed Britain would be “letting...
December 2nd, 201504291Newton Aycliffe hair stylists specialising in extensions have been awarded VIP status by a national stockist which caters for stars including Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Nicole Scherzinger.
Lox of Love, based on Aycliffe Business Park, is the first salon in the North – and the eighth globally out of 2,000 outlets – to be given...
December 2nd, 201502770Huntsman 8, Kirk Merrington Half Moon 2
Following two weeks of postponed fixtures, the Huntsman were back in action on Sunday, at home to Kirk Merrington Half Moon.
Manager Neil Dodds was forced into a couple of changes, as Anthony McDonald played in goal and Ollie Gell was called back into the side at left-back.
The game got...
December 2nd, 201502281The Aycliffe Juniors football season marched on with three fixtures at the weekend, despite the bad weather.
The Under 7’s faced a determined Primrose Hill, these sides having had a recent close game in the cup. Aycliffe dominated the game on this occasion and played some excellent attacking football. Kai, Harry and Isaac shared the...
December 1st, 201503086People in County Durham are being advised of arrangements for bin collections over the festive period.
Collection arrangements will remain the same for all residents whose rubbish and recycling bins are emptied on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
This includes both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which fall on a Thursday, when...
December 1st, 201502711As the national Christmas drink-drive campaign gets under way today, police in Durham and Cleveland are warning motorists they can be tested at the roadside for drugs as well as alcohol.
In March this year new legislation allowed police to use a ‘Drugwipe’ kit to take a mouth swab and test any driver they suspect to be impaired...
November 30th, 201503308The entrepreneur behind global craft supplies business Crafter’s Companion says she’s excited at the prospect of relocating the firm’s head office to Newton Aycliffe as part of ambitious plans.
As first revealed by Aycliffe Today three weeks ago, the Coundon-based company wants to move into the former Holiways site on Aycliffe...
November 30th, 201503405Masked men are being hunted after they robbed a petrol station on the A1 just North of Newton Aycliffe.
The robbery happened at the Jet garage in Bowburn, Durham, about 10 miles up the A1 from Aycliffe, at around 12.15am today (Monday, 30th November).
A female shop worker was at the rear of the premises when she was confronted by...
