Newton Aycliffe Sports Club will house a quiz evening next month as local fundraiser Paul McGeary edges closer to smashing the £30,000 barrier as he raises funds for blood cancer charity Bloodwise. The 35-year-old Newtonian, who has twice battled Leukaemia in recent years, has spearheaded a campaign – dubbed #NotOneInch – which has seen...

Newton Aycliffe firm Ebac has shown its support to the local community by sponsoring the town’s football club in a record-breaking deal. The washing machine manufacturer has sponsored Aycliffe’s new home shirts for the 2017-18 Northern League first division season in an agreement chairman Allan Oliver described as...

There will be no changes to bin collections in County Durham over the August bank holiday. Rubbish, recycling and garden waste will be picked up as normal, on the usual collection day, during the week commencing Monday, 28 August 2017. Householders should put their bins out for collection by 7am on their normal collection day. Anyone...

Lee Childs has left his role as chief executive of Newton Aycliffe-based South West Durham Training (SWDT) to take up a new challenge. Childs, who completed his engineering apprenticeship with SWDT nearly 18 years ago, returned to the Aycliffe site as its boss in October 2015. He has successfully introduced new bespoke training packages and...

By Paul Eales Newton Aycliffe Sports Club FC opened the 2017-18 season with an 8-6 win over local rivals Shildon Three Tons in the Wear Valley Sunday League Division Two. The Aycliffe side got off to a flyer with the first of Kyle Allen’s (pictured) six goals coming in the eighth minute with a cheeky lob from outside of the box beating the...

Newton Aycliffe-based Tekmar Energy has been awarded a large contract to protect array cables on the Binhai North H2 Offshore Windfarm project, in the Jiangsu province of China. It comes after the successful supply and installation of its systems on the first project in Taiwan last year, the Formosa 1 demonstrator project. The 400MW Binhai...

Newton Aycliffe squandered a three-goal lead as they earned a point at home to Guisborough Town on Saturday. The draw maintained Aycliffe’s unbeaten start to the 2017-18 season – but the Newtonians are yet to win a league game after drawing their first fixtures. Aycliffe totally dominated the first half at Moore Lane Park on Saturday,...

Horndale Residents Association are holding a free Family Fun Day this week. It’s being held at Greenfield Community College on Thursday (August 17) from 10.30am until 2.30pm. Attractions will include a petting zoo, crazy critters, pony rides, police, fire brigade, bouncy castles, fayre ground, face painting, Aidensfield bus rides, the Army...

Aycliffe earned a draw after their game at Stokesley was abandoned after just two overs... Saturday 12th August – NYSD Division 2 Stokesley 2nd XI v Newton Aycliffe 1st XI – weather was raining and cool. Aycliffe won the toss and chose to bowl first. Stokesley 2nd XI 8 for 0 after 2 overs Aycliffe’s first team game away at...

The future of the former library site in Newton Aycliffe is unclear after its owners said it was “reviewing all options” – despite getting planning permission for a fast food restaurant. Contractors dismantled and removed the pre-fab buildings which formed the old library on Central Avenue this week. The town centre owners, Daejan...