A member of the team at Lidl’s distribution centre in Newton Aycliffe is gearing up to cycle 140 miles in just two days to raise vital funds for the children and young people’s cancer support charity CLIC Sargent. Assistant team manager Lee Brown and friends Chris Gettins, Andy Dent and Paul Livingstone – otherwise known as the Queasy...

An eagerly-awaited ‘Scoot Park’ is now complete and ready for action in time for the school summer holidays. Local residents at Horndale were keen to get started as soon as the safety fencing was dismantled and the unanimous view from riders who have tried the track is that it is a massive success. The track is designed to complement the...

A madcap music-lover is taking social media by storm mimicking famous people as he takes on the 22 push-up challenge. Newtonian Tony Norton was nominated to take part in the phenomenon which has swept across the Atlantic from the US. It involves people doing 22 push-ups a day for 22 days on social media, to raise awareness of army veterans...

As part of the Aycliffe Festival season, Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) hosted a family fun day in the grounds of the Pioneering Care Centre in Newton Aycliffe. Over 430 attended the event and had a go at plant potting, animal handling, card making smoothie making and biscuit decorating. See more pictures below Visitors also got to...

Club runner Dave Blewitt participated in the Parc de Boulogne in Paris earlier this month. This is a Park Run in Paris and it was Dave’s 102nd Park Run. The course is a 5k road race and it was a hot 30 degrees. He completed the course in 22.29 and came in 5th place overall. On Tuesday 19th July, 18 club runners turned out for the Crook...

Before the end of term, students in Woodham Academy’s More Able Academy travelled to London to spend a few days exploring the city and absorbing the culture. The students, from a range of year groups, travelled by train, arriving with plenty of time to take in the tourist attractions. While in London the group had a chance to see...

Newton Aycliffe FC played four games last week as their preparations for the new season intensified. A draw against Rotherham side Maltby Main was followed by wins over Brandon & Darlington RA. The final game of the week saw Aycliffe ensure that the Frank Swinburne Memorial Cup stayed in Moore Lane with a win over Northallerton. It...

A Newton Aycliffe-based commercial finance firm continues to grow thanks to the expert legal guidance of Endeavour Partnership. Commercial Expert expanded at the end of 2015, taking on additional team members and moving to larger, modern premises on Aycliffe Business Park due to continuing success. The firm, founded by managing director Mike...

Aycliffe won back-to-back league games for the first time this summer. Here's this week's cricket round-up... Saturday 23rd July – NYSD Division 2 Newton Aycliffe 1st XI v Hartlepool 2nd XI – weather was warm and sunny. Aycliffe won the toss and chose to bowl first. Hartlepool 2nd XI 135 all out after 40.1 overs Patrick Howe 4 for 19,...

Police say many motorists are making it ‘easy pickings’ to car thieves by leaving their vehicles unlocked – in some cases overnight. Research carried out recently for offences in Spennymoor and Newton Aycliffe showed around 40% of all thefts from vehicles took place from cars or vans which were left insecure. In the last month there...