A £6.8m grant for infrastructure improvements will enable 1,500 new homes to be built in Newton Aycliffe. The cash has been awarded to Durham County Council through the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund. It will be used to improve infrastructure in Newton Aycliffe, including roads and utilities, overcoming significant development...

Volunteers are to receive expert training to help them identify diseases that are attacking trees in the county as part of the Woodland Trust’s Observatree project. Observatree is being run in partnership with the Durham Woodland Revival project, of which Durham County Council is a leading partner. Durham Woodland Revival has received initial...

Aycliffe-based companies can learn how to grow their businesses by signing up to a series of free workshops on Aycliffe Business Park. This exclusive programme for Aycliffe businesses is being delivered by the Durham Business Opportunities Programme in partnership with Aycliffe Business Park Community. The workshops will be delivered by Gary...

Aycliffe Running Club members participated in the North East Masters cross country championships at Darlington earlier this month. Two club runners took home medals, with Alan Wilks taking the gold in his category and Michelle Zamir taking the bronze in hers. The first race was for women 35 and over and men 65 and over. The course was...

Staff and councillors from Durham County Council have donated over 600 kilogrammes of food to Durham Food Bank. Collected over the Christmas period, the foodbank donations provided 758 meals for those in need across County Durham and gave people practical support at a difficult time of year. Cllr Jane Brown, Durham County Council’s Cabinet...

Newton Aycliffe-based Tekmar Energy has been named company of the year at Subsea UK's annual awards. Tekmar, which has two bases on Aycliffe Business Park, is a market leader in the design, manufacture and supply of subsea cable, umbilical and flexible protection systems for the renewable energy and oil & gas industry. The Aycliffe firm...

Durham County Council has clinched a prestigious national ‘green’ award for the second year in a row – thanks to Operation Spruce Up. The council has taken home the title of ‘campaign of the year’ at environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy’s Network Awards 2018 for Spruce Up, its programme to ‘clean up and ‘green up’ the...

Family-run steel firm Finley Structures is hoping to benefit from what it says is a construction boom in the education sector. The Newton Aycliffe-based fabrication specialists have won two more education contracts which come off the back of several projects in the sector over the last year. Finley Structures have previously helped to build...

The Aycliffe Juniors season continued with another round of league and cup fixtures for the teams. There were a couple of games postponed leaving both the Under 11’s and TJFA Under 12’s without a match. The Under 7’s hosted Darlington Spraire Lads winning the league game 5-3 and the development game 4-2. In the league game a hatrick...

Durham Constabulary is joining with other police forces around the country in support of the message #StopKnifeCrime. Operation Sceptre is a national week of action (February 12-16) against knife crime and aims to highlight the risks that carrying a bladed weapon can bring, as well as targeting offenders who use and carry knives. Detective...