Little ACORNS, the junior section of the ACORN Residents Association, will be holding their fourth annual petting zoo from 10am-2pm on Friday (8th April) at Newton Aycliffe leisure centre. Starting with a ribbon cutting opening by town Mayor Mary Dalton, children will be entertained by Animal Story and Crazy Creatures petting zoos, Professor...

Football legend Ron Atkinson will star at an event to fund a youth football team’s European trip. Newton Aycliffe Youth Football Club is already more than half way through raising enough funds to pay for all 18 of their Under 13 Falcons players to go to Holland on a Development Tour later this year. A Sportsman's Evening is being held at...

It was back to league action for Aycliffe Juniors after an Easter break for most teams. Over the bank holiday weekend teams from the Under 8’s and 10’s played in the Easter Tournaments hosted by the Alun Armstrong Centre at Shildon. Teams reached the knock out stages but no trophies this time round. The Under 7’s played a determined...

An up and coming local company based in Newton Aycliffe has collaborated with a long established North East renewables company in order to improve and create a sustainable future for their rapidly growing business. BTS Fabrications located on Newton Aycliffe Industrial estate have been established for seven years. They specialise in...

Newton Aycliffe 15, Richmond 17 Newton Aycliffe lost only their second league game of the season against Richmond, but maintained their top-of-the-table status in the Durham & Northumberland third division. This week’s game was played on a Tuesday evening at Durham City under floodlights verses Richmond – a home fixture which had...

Newton Aycliffe 5, Morpeth Town 0 Ebac Northern League Division One By Bob Wood Three goals in four minutes just before half time paved the way for a comfortable victory for Newton Aycliffe over Wembley-bound Morpeth Town on Saturday. The win took Aycliffe to 54 points from 31 games in the Ebac Northern League Division One where they now...

A non-league footballer with a heart of gold gave away his first ever winners’ medal to a dedicated supporter. Northern League side Newton Aycliffe won the Durham County Challenge Cup with an entertaining, 3-1 victory over West Auckland at the Hetton Centre on Good Friday. But after picking up several runners-up medals in recent years, the...

A poll ran through Aycliffe Today’s social media pages has returned a mixed bag of results so far – with an overall majority of people wanting Britain to leave the European Union. Ahead of the referendum on 23rd June, we’re running two EU polls on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Adding the two polls together, 47% of voters say they...

A young Aycliffe Mum has been left paranoid and insecure after heartless thieves burgled her during the night while she and her one-year-old son were asleep. But brave Chloe Tailford says she would like to meet the depraved crooks who crept into her home during darkness – and ask them why they stole her son’s Christmas money jar. The...

Two young performers from Newton Aycliffe have been offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend a prestigious Hollywood dance school. But the teenage sensations need to raise cash to help fund their dream summer trip. Woodham Academy student Charlie Lough, 15, and 14-year-old Emily Halford, who goes to Greenfield College, have been offered...