Local businesses are rallying behind an independent charity which is helping families in their fight against cancer. Newton Aycliffe firm SCH Site Services is the latest company to support the Solan Connor Fawcett Family Cancer Trust, set up by charity crusader Mark Solan. Mark raised £22,000 for Cancer Research UK from a charity boxing...

Tickets are selling fast for Newton Aycliffe’s glitzy business awards ceremony which will be held next week. More than 200 people have already booked their places for Aycliffe Business Park’s Make Your Mark event at the Xcel Centre on Wednesday 10th February. Sales have already equalled the turn-out for the 2014 event. And now the...

Newtonian Gemma Porter has taken up a new marketing role with Woodham Academy. The 26-year-old has been taken on as media and marketing officer – a new position created by the school. Previously events organiser at housing provider livin, Gemma graduated from Newcastle Business School with a marketing degree in 2011. A former...

Litter legends are being called upon once again to help spruce up their communities as part of this year’s Big Spring Clean. LitterFree Durham, Durham County Council and Darlington Borough Council are teaming up for the sixth time to stage the annual campaign. The Big Spring Clean brings communities together to ‘clean up and green up’...

Camberley Town 5, Newton Aycliffe 0 FA Vase fifth round Newton Aycliffe’s run in the FA Vase came to a disappointing end with a crushing defeat at Camberley Town on Saturday. Despite edging the first half at Krooner Park, Perry Coles scored for the hosts to give them a half-time lead. But it was Robert Laserczuk’s goal four minutes...

Controversial community champion Ken Robson has been elected on to Great Aycliffe Town Council after winning the West ward by-election. From a paltry turnout of just 14.3%, Councillor Robson won 55% of the vote, with 334 against the Labour Party’s candidate Peter Lewis, who polled 268. Cllr Robson, chairman of the ACORN Residents...

Aycliffe legend Allan Oliver says the town’s football fans have never had it so good, as they prepare for the biggest game in their history. The Blues take on Camberley Town in the last 16 of the FA Vase today (3pm). It’s the furthest Aycliffe have reached in the competition, with a quarter-final place up for grabs. And the man who...

Long-serving Newton Aycliffe defender Dan Mitton says he’s proud to be a part of the club’s current run in the FA Vase. The Blues take on Camberley Town in Surrey on Saturday (3pm) in the fifth round of the competition – with a place in the quarter-finals up for grabs. Mitton was part of Allan Oliver’s side which won successive...

Newton Aycliffe are ready to battle for a place in the quarter-finals of the FA Vase, insists manager Peter Dixon. The Newtonians set off on their 550-mile round trip to Camberley Town in Surrey today (Friday), ahead of their fifth round tie at Krooner Park on Saturday. Aycliffe, currently enjoying their best-ever campaign in the Northern...

Greenfield Arts have been hosting Yoga for Young People since May 2015 as a result of a small grants bid, from GAMP, by the school’s Engineheads earlier in the year. The group found it was something that isn’t currently offered to local young people and is a great way to increase positive well-being, increase flexibility and reduce...