Woodham Academy students were paired up with local employers to take part in the school’s annual Apprenticeship Awareness Challenge. The competition forms part of Woodham Academy’s extensive programme of careers guidance and support. Teams from every tutor group in Year 9 worked with a partner organisation, including 3M, Lucite, South...

Residents can receive a helping hand with their Christmas clear-out thanks to a free tree collection service. Durham County Council are offering to pick up real Christmas trees for residents who book with the free service. Bookings for real tree collections can be made from now, until Sunday 12 January. The trees will be collected over a...

Santa Claus is coming to town! Great Aycliffe Town Council have finalised the big fella’s traditional route around Newton Aycliffe on Christmas Eve. There are 14 routes, so residents should check the times carefully for their areas. The 14 routes are: Route 1 – Travellers Green, Aycliffe Village and School Aycliffe  Approx....

In every issue of our Aycliffe Today Business magazine, we take a break and sit down with a different employee or business owner to ask them 20 questions on a variety of subjects. In the latest issue, Lemon Top creative director Steve Gill is in the Aycliffe Today chair… 1: What do you do? A: My official role at Lemon Top is business...

By Donna Reece This will be the final race report of the year and what a year it has been. Unfortunately, the final week of racing was an extremely quiet one in terms of racing, although our members were out taking part in parkruns (those that hadn’t been cancelled) and trail training runs. There will also be plenty of social training runs...

Generous council staff and elected members have donated thousands of festive treats to foodbanks across the county to help people in need this Christmas. Employees and councillors from Durham County Council donated throughout November to the appeal which asks them to buy an extra item, such as a Christmas pudding, crackers or festive biscuits,...

Residents in County Durham are being reminded of changes to rubbish and recycling collections over the Christmas period. Bin collections across the county will take place as normal up to and including Tuesday, 24 December 2019. The Wednesday and Thursday collections for week commencing 23 December will be two days later than usual, and...

The creators of Aycliffe Today Business have launched a new quarterly publication for the Sunderland and Durham region, Wear Business – the first issue, featuring Hays Travel owner John Hays, can be read on the publication’s accompanying new website wear.business. Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker and his business partner Dave Allan,...

Tributes have been paid to former Durham Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner Ron Hogg, who died on Tuesday. Mr Hogg, who had been a vocal advocate for the right to die, as well as for radical drugs reform, stepped down from his role earlier this year after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Durham chief constable Jo...

Students from Greenfield Community College have been offered valuable opportunities to experience live theatre as part of their extended learning experience. Performing Arts students from Year 10 and 11 were able to see a production of ‘The Woman in Black’. The hit West End production is renowned for being very scary as an atmospheric...