A Newton Aycliffe care home has raised more than £700 for its residents and the community. Aycliffe Care Home, which is operated by Akari Care, raised a total of £740 for its Residents’ Comfort Fund over the festive period at its winter wonderland event, with a portion of the funds going to support Kathryn Griffiths, a local girl who is...

With Christmas now out of the way Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club have begun preparations for the new cricket season which gets underway in April. Coaching is underway for junior academy players aged between 7 and 17 years with sessions taking place each Friday night at Woodham Academy Sports Hall between 5.30 and 7.00pm. The club are always on...

Motorists are warned to expect some disruption as work to expand Aycliffe Business Park continues. Traffic will be reduced to one lane on the southbound carriageway of the A167 towards junction 59 of the A1 for several weeks from Thursday January 12. The lane closure will enable the next stage of work to create a new junction and internal...

A Newton Aycliffe care home which opened last year has been sold as part of a group deal. St Clare’s Court, built on the site of the former police station on Central Avenue, is in new hands after its owners Helen McArdle Care agreed a multi-million pound deal with London-based group HC-One, which also owns Defoe Court Care Home in...

Crafter’s Companion has raised almost £1,750 for mental health charity, Mind, following two ‘Crafternoon’ fundraising events held at its UK stores. The total monies raised at the ‘Crafternoons’, which were held out of its Newton Aycliffe and Chesterfield stores, and via online donations were then fund-matched by Crafter’s Companion...

Woodham Academy has teamed up with Sky Sports and the Youth Sport Trust to launch a female focussed sports initiative within the school. Girls Active aims to increase participation levels of girls in key stage three by providing more opportunities to get involved and peer support. Nationally, only a small number of girls meet the recommended...

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 January 17, between 6pm and 8pm, at OakLeaf Sports Complex, and members of the public...

A talented inventor from Newton Aycliffe has developed the first upgrade to the school crossing patrol sign in five decades and believes lives could be saved as a result. Newtonian Andrew Turner, who has an office at the North East Technology Park (NETPark) in Sedgefield, County Durham, is to meet with distributors about his illuminated...

Aycliffe Juniors returned to action after the Christmas break. A mixture of postponements and there being no scheduled fixtures saw only a few teams play this week. The Under 7's put in a great performance away at Hartlepool Pools Youth. As a team they played some superb football and an amazing individual performance from Thomas saw him score...

Armed officers were called to Newton Aycliffe town centre today (Monday) to arrest a man. The male, 30, was seen in the Aycliffe area and arrested shortly after 9.30am. A police spokesperson said: “Armed officers were deployed to Newton Aycliffe town centre at 9.30am this morning to assist with the arrest of a 30-year-old man. “He was...