Durham County Council and Blaenau Gwent Borough Council have launched a call for technology businesses to develop innovative solutions that can capture and analyse data to transform Local Authority service delivery. Development funding is provided under the GovTech Catalyst Fund scheme and the competition opens for applications on 24...

Get moving, there’s just a few days left to secure your place for the North East’s most action-packed obstacle course. On Sunday (September 30), Muddy Mayhem, organised by Durham County Council, is returning to Hardwick Park, Sedgefield. But the deadline for registering is fast approaching, you’ve only got till midnight Wednesday,...

Residents and community groups are invited to share their views about adult social care as part of a major national consultation. The Local Government Association (LGA) consultation, titled ‘The lives we want to lead’, asks how best to pay for social care and support for older people, adults with mental or physical disabilities and unpaid...

The second weekend of the football season saw the Aycliffe Juniors TJFA teams competing in the first round of the league cup. The Under 7’s ‘Whites’ kept up their winning ways with a 2-1 league win against Improtech Soccer Reds, Jack scored both goals. The Under 7’s ‘Juniors’ played their first cup game against Hartlepool St...

Durham Constabulary is launching a week-long knife amnesty inviting residents to surrender knives into which people can make anonymous deposits of bladed articles that could otherwise be used in crime. The amnesty, code named Operation Brassen, will see ‘knife bins’ located at police stations across the county, to raise awareness of the...

Residents in Great Aycliffe & Middridge can find out how local issues are being tackled when the local area action partnership holds their next board meeting later this month. The Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership board will be meeting on Tuesday, September 25, between 6pm and 8pm at Middridge Village Hall, and members of the...

A further £12m funding has been granted to provide employment, education and training opportunities for young people in County Durham. The Durham County Council led partnership programme, DurhamWorks, has been awarded the funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Council’s Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), creating a...

The first of three information events, organised to give up to date advice to residents about the potential impacts of Brexit, will take place next week. The first free public session will be held at The Sage, Gateshead, from 5.30pm to 7pm on Thursday, September 20. This will focus on citizens’ rights and will be attended by British Member...

A newly-qualified sports therapist is getting rave reviews from customers after bravely launching his own business. Alan Kay, from Newton Aycliffe, decided to start AK Sports Therapy and Massage after graduating from his sports rehabilitation degree at the University of Cumbria earlier this year. The 31-year-old returned to Aycliffe after...

The Pioneering Care Partnership in Newton Aycliffe is hosting an event to raise money for a well-known cancer charity. The PCP is inviting local people to its Cobblers Hall venue to be part of the ‘World’s biggest coffee morning’, in aid of Macmillan, on Friday September 28, 10am-1pm. Yummy sweet treats will be on offer as well as a...