The Aycliffe Business Park Community is looking for new board members to drive forward its agenda - and the deadline to apply has been extended to the end of the month. In 2016, Aycliffe Business Park Community (ABPC) formed a new company to drive forward its agenda and help create a bright and successful future for all businesses located on...

The Pioneering Care Partnership welcomed the return of Tony Blair to Newton Aycliffe. The PCP is a charity set up in 1998 with the initial main aim to manage a multi-use health and wellbeing building. In 1998 the then Prime Minister proudly laid the foundation stone, and with the 20-year milestone approaching, PCP jumped back in time to...

Children can tuck into nutritious free snacks in County Durham this half-term. Durham County Council is offering tasty treats such as fresh fruit, raisins and popcorn to youngsters at all of its leisure centres with swimming pools this week until Sunday (October 28). The initiative is an extension of a successful scheme run during the summer...

The Aycliffe Juniors football season marched on with another series of exciting games over the weekend. There were good performances that didn’t necessarily get the results they deserved. The Under 8’s unbeaten start to the season came to an end at Trimdon. They lost the match 8-0 and in the development game goals from Layton (2) and George...

A number of businesses and people have offered their vehicles and services for the annual Santa Tours, following Aycliffe Today’s successful online and social media campaign. Great Aycliffe Town Council says it should now have enough vehicles for the traditional Aycliffe event on December 24 after local firms came forward. Humbug...

Thrive Marketing has been working with the team behind a new UK medical charity to produce a brand identity and website. The Aycliffe Business Park-based agency has previously offered their services for charity before, but creating a new brand and website as a charitable offer was a first for the company, something which the company is very...

Emergency services and families who have lost loved ones in car crashes have joined forces to deliver a hard-hitting road safety campaign in Newton Aycliffe. The parents of Nick Davidson and Michael Sanderson told teenagers at ‘WiseDrive - Drive for Life’ that their lives would never be the same following the death of their sons. Anita...

Hebburn Town 1, Newton Aycliffe 3 By Dave Strickland Newton Aycliffe travelled to third placed Hebburn Town and came away with a well-deserved 3-1 win. They were the better side throughout the match. They went ahead on eleven minutes when Vincent Gash latched onto a James Winter kick downfield and finished smartly past Hebburn keeper...

Newton Aycliffe family-run firm Stiller Warehousing and Distribution has created capacity for jobs growth with the opening of its new £2m distribution centre. After an eight-month construction project, which supported dozens of local jobs by utilising nearby contractors, the state-of-the-art facility is expected to improve Stiller’s in-house...

By Donna Campbell It has been another great week of racing for ARC with members competing in races far and wide. The racing began on Saturday 13th October 2018 with Mark Wade who travelled to Glenridding in the Lake District to compete in the Helvellyn 10k. The race went ahead despite the weather which caused flooding in the local area and...