Newton Aycliffe’s Northern League side begin their league campaign at Danny Mellanby’s Marske United this weekend. Peter Dixon’s side suffered a disappointing FA Cup replay defeat at home to Washington on Tuesday night, losing 2-0 and falling at the first hurdle of the famous competition. The replay followed their 2-2 draw at...

Families are being reminded that there are no changes to Durham County Council’s bin collections over the August bank holiday. Rubbish and recycling will be picked up as normal, on the usual collection day, during the week commencing Monday 29 August. Garden waste will also be collected for those who have signed up to the scheme. To...

Hitachi Rail Europe is set to take on an additional 150 staff at its Newton Aycliffe facility. The Japanese firm says it’s creating a further 150 jobs, on top of the estimated 730 it expected to have in place when its state-of-the-art train assembling factory is fully operational later this year. The company already employs about 500...

A Newton Aycliffe designer who graduated this summer has received her first commission to design wallpaper for an international textiles studio. Sharron Bates, who recently graduated from Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD)’s university-level campus in Hartlepool, will be flying out to Belgium to see her work produced later this...

Aycliffe Today has agreed a new shirt sponsorship deal with the town’s football club for the 2016-17 season. The community website, which is owned by Aycliffe-based PR and publishing firm Mantis Media, has agreed to sponsor Aycliffe’s home strips for their new Northern League campaign. And Aycliffe Today boss Martin Walker has also...

A round-up of news from Aycliffe Running Club... Judith Porter completed the Durham Clamber in July. She completed the course in 1:47:00 and claimed the first prize for her category of female over sixty. Two club runners participated in the Worstead 5-mile race in Norfolk. Peter Milburn came home in a time of 31.39. He came 26th out of 357...

Students from Greenfield Community College Sunnydale Campus have completed a charity boot camp in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Crossfit Glacier, from Washington, held the event and students were put through their paces with timed stations including burpees, sit-ups, press-ups and various other exercises. The morning finished with relay...

More than 50 businesses will come together to offer advice to potential and existing companies looking to start-up or grow. The inaugural Durham Business Information Exchange (DBIE), which is being organised by Business Durham, the economic development company for County Durham, will be held at the Xcel Centre on Aycliffe Business Park on...

Although the summer holidays are well underway, a group of 42 Aycliffe students chose to go back to school... but not for their usual lessons. The students who are all due to start in Year 7 at Woodham Academy, in September, spent the week at summer school. Each day was action packed with students participating in robotics with VEX Robotics,...

A sophisticated system to weigh multiple train carriages at the same time has been installed at Hitachi Rail Europe’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Barnsley-based Weighwell Engineering says it has implemented a full train weighing system (PTW 500-VB2X) at Hitachi's £82m factory on Aycliffe Business Park. The portable system,...