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...

A landscaping and grounds maintenance firm is pulling up trees after smashing its sales forecast five months early. Scott Ellwood sowed the seeds for his new landscaping venture more than a decade ago – now he’s reaping the rewards after seeing his fledgling firm flourish into a blossoming business. After starting out as a sole trader in...

Woodham Academy students took a trip to space and back – without leaving their school. The students experienced the 400km descent of Tim Peake’s Soyuz space capsule using the latest virtual reality technology. In June 2016, the UK astronaut returned to Earth in the capsule following six months on board the International Space Station...

Dog owners are being given advice on spotting the symptoms of Alabama Rot. In the past few years, a small number of dogs have died unexpectedly around the country. Test results and symptoms in the affected animals have been similar to those reported in dogs with Alabama Rot. More recently, there have been 10 further cases around the...

Newton Aycliffe-based tech firm Viper RF will share a pot of £30,000 Space Agency cash as part of a scale-up programme. Five North East entrepreneurs have won spots on a space incubation programme designed to help their businesses access the Uk’s growing space sector. Newton Aycliffe’s Viper, which relocated design centre relocated to...