Charitable council staff have donated toys and equipment to help young people receiving care at a Durham City hospital. Kind-hearted members of Durham County Council’s DurhamWorks team collected gifts and essential equipment for the Tree Tops ward and Children’s A&E department of University North Durham Hospital. The DurhamWorks team...

Thornaby 0, Newton Aycliffe 2 By Bob Wood Despite almost a month's layoff Newton Aycliffe showed no sign of rustiness as they took three points at second-placed Thornaby on Saturday. Goals from Andrei Ardelean and Ben Reay sealed Aycliffe's third win of the season over the Teesside team. Aycliffe started the game strongly with Ardelean...

Residents across County Durham can have their say on the future of local library services. Durham County Council held the last review of the county’s library service in 2012. In recent years society has experienced massive digital and technological advancements and as a result, services have needed to be revitalised to reflect this. The...

In every issue of our Aycliffe Business magazine, we take a break and sit down with a different employee or business owner/leader to ask them 20 questions about a variety of subjects. In our latest edition, Aycliffe-based Digital Edge creative director Graham Marsh answers our 20 questions over a cuppa… 1: What do you do? A: I run and am...

Newton Aycliffe’s Tory MP has ended his silence over the Boris Johnson party-gate affair after finally making a public statement. Conservative MP Paul Howell apologised for the delay in making a statement after receiving a number of complaints from members of the public, amid the Number 10 ‘bring your own booze’ debacle this week. Mr...

By Paul Blythe Under 12’s – entered the MFC Christmas tournament during the break. In a competitive tournament, Aycliffe ended up eventual winners. Playing six games overall and winning four of these, including a 2-0 win in the final v Coulby Newham. Goals on the day scored by James (4), Keaton (2) & Callum. Well done to the Under...

Students from Greenfield Community College were able to enjoy an enlightening visit to the Hindu Mandir as part of their RE studies. The year 10 and 11 GCSE groups enjoyed a valuable opportunity as they visited ISKCON Hindu Temple in Newcastle. They were able to find out more about the ethics and culture associated with the faith, listen to...

Work is underway to create a new unit at a secure children's home in Newton Aycliffe to help support young residents when they leave the centre. Following an announcement from the government that it is investing an initial £12m to create new places in secure children’s homes, construction has started at Aycliffe Secure Children’s Home,...

If three words would best reflect DBOP – they would be ‘flexible, agile and impartial'. The DBOP programme has a team of three business advisors based in North, East and South-West Durham who are dedicated to understanding business needs, to provide a gateway for support and advice based on the goals, objectives and ambitions of each and...

By Paul Dalton Icy conditions led to a large number of Saturday’s local parkruns being cancelled, but the club were still represented at the Albert, Stewart and York events. The conditions didn’t hinder David Stothard or Gareth Kyle. David managed to run a Personal Best (PB) at Albert parkrun (27:38), and Gareth registered a new best of...