A £40,000 fitness suite has been installed at Woodham Academy. The academy opened the brand new, state-of-the-art, fitness suite last month after months of development to ensure the students can access a range of different gym equipment to further develop their understanding of health-related fitness. Students can access the recently...

With the region being battered from storm Arwen over the weekend, all of Newton Aycliffe FC’s Junior Section games fell foul to the weather and were postponed last weekend. The club is hoping for an upturn in the weather for games to resume on Saturday (December 4). The bad weather did little to stop the parents and coaches enjoying a...

Newton Aycliffe shower enclosure manufacturer Roman visited a local charity it has supported through the pandemic. Since 2005, Roman has been making impactful grants through its fund with County Durham Community Foundation and to date the company has awarded £15,000 to support local projects that create opportunities for people who are...

By Paul Dalton Storm Arwen decimated running events in the North-East over the course of last weekend, with only one of the regional parkrun events, Riverside parkrun at Chester-le-Street, going ahead. Further afield, John and Tracey Surtees completed the Burgess parkrun, which took place on the tarmac paths around Burgess Park in...

Television presenter, podcaster and author Tom Heap was the keynote speaker at an event aimed at strengthening County Durham’s response to climate change. The BBC Countryfile host, who has a podcast and book called 39 Ways to Save the Planet, joined representatives from the County Durham Partnership (CDP) for its first in-person meeting since...

Newton Aycliffe 8, Whitley Bay 0 By Bob Wood Newton Aycliffe took their first three points under Brian Atkinson with an emphatic 8-0 win over Whitley Bay at the Beaumont Landscapes Stadium on Tuesday night. The win was a huge lift for the club, having lost seven of their last eight games. Aycliffe took the game to Bay from the start...

Durham Constabulary has today been named as one of the UK’s most inclusive employers for the second year in a row. The force has been named in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List, in recognition of its continued dedication to workplace diversity, equality and inclusion. The annual list celebrates the UK’s top 50 organisations that...

A new collaboration between two tech firms has created an ambitious new company which is taking its services global and creating new jobs. What used to be Pixel Media on Aycliffe Business Park has merged with Gloucestershire-based Infuze Group to create Digital Edge. Directors Ian Proctor and Graham Marsh started Pixel Media in 2017,...

Three men who ran and controlled several county-wide cannabis farms – including an address in Newton Aycliffe – have been jailed. The farms, which combined turned over £2m each year, were shut down in April 2021 following a protracted 10-month covert operation. Edlir Ganoshi, Elidjon Pashallari and Arber Ganoshi who oversaw the gang...

Residents can now have their say on a series of draft masterplans aimed at enhancing the vibrancy of County Durham communities. As part of its Towns and Villages programme, Durham County Council has prepared draft masterplans for Newton Aycliffe, Peterlee, Stanley and Crook, Willington and Tow Law. Alongside a new regeneration framework for...