The County Durham Growth Fund is celebrating having invested more than £500,000 in three businesses from across the county within 10 months of its launch. Established in April 2019, the three-year fund is a £4.9m investment scheme providing funding to small and medium sized businesses in County Durham to accelerate their growth. The fund...

Sedgefield 75 swimming club sent six swimmers to Durham last weekend to compete in Durham Swimming Club’s Valentines Gala. Youngest of the six was Ellis Dickinson who swam his first 100m race in competition and also slashed a combined ten seconds from his 50m backstroke and freestyle times showing excellent progression. Dylan Forster had...

Students from Greenfield Community College have been given the chance to travel to Europe and make new connections with students from a range of countries. The recent ERASMUS+ trip enabled a group of students to travel overseas and spend time in a Spanish school and family homes, learning more about the culture, landscape and learning...

UTC South Durham student Stephen Henry has secured a competitive degree apprenticeship with BTS Facades and Fabrications, a Newton Aycliffe-based company which manufactures high-quality facade and rain-screen products. Year 13 student Stephen joined UTC South Durham in 2016 and achieved excellent GCSE results before continuing to study A-Levels...

Newton Aycliffe 0, North Shields 1 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe can consider themselves unlucky to lose 1-0 to North Shields at the Beaumont Landscapes stadium. They were the better team but went down to a goal in injury time at the end of the match. In-form striker Adam Burnicle was ruled out with injury, and centre half Liam...

By Donna Campbell This weekend again saw many members participating in the local Parkruns on Saturday morning and we had two members achieving Parkrun PBs. First was Paula Lambert who achieved her PB at Shildon in a time of 32.54. At Sedgefield Jayne Rudd achieved a course PB of 32.57. Also on Saturday we had two people take part in races...

County Durham residents are being reminded to sign up soon to ensure they receive all available garden waste collections. To guarantee they receive all 17 collections for 2020/21, people must sign up to the Durham County Council scheme before February 14. The first collection for people who subscribe to the service before this deadline takes...

A group of six Year 10 students from Woodham Academy volunteered to take part in the International Space Challenge, taking place at the Xcel Centre in Newton Aycliffe. The event was designed to challenge students to create a space hotel and deliver a presentation in French to promote it. Whilst building their craft model hotel, students were...

Sarah Slaven is taking on the role of interim managing director at Business Durham, the economic development arm of Durham County Council, following the departure of Brian Archer. Sarah was part of the management team that established Business Durham in 2012 and held the post of operations director until taking on her current position as...

Newton Aycliffe 3, Guisborough Town 0 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe gave another accomplished performance at the Beaumont Landscapes stadium when they beat Guisborough Town 3-0 on Tuesday night. It was seventh versus sixth, and the win meant that Aycliffe leapfrogged Guisborough (and North Shields) up to fifth position in the...