Parents in County Durham are being reminded they are running out of time to apply for primary school places for their children. The deadline for applications for the next academic year, which starts in September 2020, is Wednesday 15 January 2020. In order for a child to be eligible to start school in September 2020, the child’s birthday...

By Matty Bright It’s a new year and that meant that for our Junior sides the football season resumes. After a refreshing break off, our teams were all looking for that all important 3 points. Our Aycliffe Juniors u7s travelled to play Swalewall. Both teams had a great first half and it made for an entertaining game with the scores even at...

Three new state-of-the-art leisure centres could be built under plans to invest almost £63m in leisure services across County Durham. The proposals will also see investment being made at Newton Aycliffe’s town centre leisure facility. Durham County Council is proposing to transform leisure provision across the county with plans to create...

Award-winning charity Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) welcomed members from Churches Together in Great Aycliffe to the Centre where they presented a cheque for £150 in support of the Hydrotherapy Pool fundraising campaign. Churches Together in Newton Aycliffe consists of representatives from the churches in the area who come together to do...

North-East police officers are again spending a night behind bars in a haunted prison to raise money for good causes. Officers from Durham and Cleveland forces are coming together to spend the night at Birmingham’s Steelhouse Lane Lock-up, a Victorian mini-prison that is steeped in history and home to paranormal activity. They are raising...

Whickham 3, Newton Aycliffe 4 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe climbed back up to sixth in the Northern League first division with a narrow 4-3 victory away to Whickham on Saturday. They should have won comfortably but missed a hatful of chances and conceded a late penalty to give their fans an anxious last five minutes. They were...

Aycliffe Today has appointed a new key manager to drive ambitious growth plans starting in 2020. Sharon Hutchinson has joined the Aycliffe Today team as business manager to primarily focus on business planning and strategy, as well as the sales and marketing of both Aycliffe Today and its associated Aycliffe Today Business magazine. Sharon,...

Health and wellbeing charity Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) can help you get your New Year off to a great start, with our range of physical activities, learning and volunteering opportunities for 2020 in Newton Aycliffe. Our timetables of activities for January is bursting at the seams, with great activities that will help you stick to those...

Tekmar Energy has announced a new deal to supply its patented cable protection system (CPS) for international marine contractor Van Oord at a major wind farm development. Windpark Fryslân is a 382MW near-shore wind farm comprising 89 wind turbines, located six kilometers off the Frisian coast in the Netherlands. Once constructed it is...

Options Day Service supports adults with physical and learning difficulties and the members were thrilled to crown Dale Sugden as ‘Member of the Year’ at the annual Awards ceremony which took place at Redworth Hall Hotel in December. Options, delivered by the Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) in Newton Aycliffe, seeks to promote...