Students from Woodham Academy have just returned from a week of ski tuition in Pila, Italy. After a long coach journey the group arrived mid Sunday afternoon to their hotel high up overlooking the mountain range of the Gran Paradiso National Park. The hotel St Nicolas boasts one of Interski’s most picturesque locations; the views were...

Thrive Marketing has been busy checking out the ‘must dos’ and ‘best practices’ for North East companies’ social media strategies. The Aycliffe Business Park-based organisation has highlighted a number of new trends coming to the fore in 2018 as they run their new-look social media packages for a variety of organisations. With a...

Highways improvement schemes, a new primary school and support for fledgling businesses to develop and grow across the county, are just some of the projects set to benefit from an extra £117m capital investment programme in County Durham. But councillors also voted to increase council tax bills by nearly 5% - including 2.99% normal tax and an...

Acklam 81, Newton Aycliffe 5 By Ben Carpenter Merritt The First XV travelled to Teesside and to league leaders and all but certain league winners, Acklam. Given the difference in recent form, there was little expectation on Aycliffe, and missing a few key players the First XV were free to be a bit more creative with their rugby. The...

Concerns have again been raised relating to the damage that cheap alcohol is causing in the North East of England and the increasing pressure it puts on our policing services. The three North East PCCs have collaboratively penned a letter to the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, calling on the Government to follow Scotland’s innovative lead and...

Have you considered the benefits of hiring young people? It can lead to improvements in everything from performance and productivity to growth, innovation and morale. The DurhamWorks project helps unemployed 16-24 years old living in County Durham into jobs, training or education and hundreds of businesses have benefited from their support...

The football season continued with the Aycliffe Juniors teams hoping for a consistent run of fixtures and an end to the weather enforced postponements. The Under 6’s enjoyed a great match day experience at Rockcliffe Hall when they visited the Middlesbrough FC academy and played a variety of local teams including an MFC Development side. They...

As part of Rights Respecting Day, students from Greenfield Community College gained an insight into the lives of Paralympic athletes and the difficulties they have to overcome to compete in their respective sports. Year 9 students had the opportunity to take part in activities such as sit down volleyball, boccia and blindfold football. The...

A large section of Aycliffe Business Park has been brought to the market with an asking price of £7m. Commercial property specialist Naylors has been appointed to sell Whinbank Park – at the heart of Aycliffe Business Park – on behalf of Manchester-based property company MCR Property Group. The 18-acre estate comprises of over 90...

Newton Aycliffe 2, Morpeth Town 1 Newton Aycliffe beat Northern League runaway leaders Morpeth Town at Moore Lane Park to stretch their unbeaten run to nine games. After beating local rivals Shildon in their last outing on February 3 – which came off the back of five straight draws – the Newtonians were voted Team of the Week by the...