People in County Durham are being advised of arrangements for bin collections over the festive period. Collection arrangements will remain the same for all residents whose rubbish and recycling bins are emptied on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. This includes both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which fall on a Thursday, when normal...

As the national Christmas drink-drive campaign gets under way today, police in Durham and Cleveland are warning motorists they can be tested at the roadside for drugs as well as alcohol. In March this year new legislation allowed police to use a ‘Drugwipe’ kit to take a mouth swab and test any driver they suspect to be impaired through the...

The entrepreneur behind global craft supplies business Crafter’s Companion says she’s excited at the prospect of relocating the firm’s head office to Newton Aycliffe as part of ambitious plans. As first revealed by Aycliffe Today three weeks ago, the Coundon-based company wants to move into the former Holiways site on Aycliffe Business...

Masked men are being hunted after they robbed a petrol station on the A1 just North of Newton Aycliffe. The robbery happened at the Jet garage in Bowburn, Durham, about 10 miles up the A1 from Aycliffe, at around 12.15am today (Monday, 30th November). A female shop worker was at the rear of the premises when she was confronted by four men...

Shildon 1, Newton Aycliffe 2 Newton Aycliffe’s in-form Northern League club continued their excellent recent run with a derby win at second-placed Shildon on Saturday. The victory – Aycliffe’s fifth consecutive league win and seventh in all competitions – lifted the Newtonians up to fifth in the first division. Peter Dixon’s...

Newton Aycliffe man Michael Watson has been jailed for a knife attack on a 32-year-old local man earlier this year. Known locally as ‘Spike’, Watson eventually pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and possessing a knife in a public place after originally pleading self-defence. He was originally charged with attempted murder after the...

Thousands of people have passed through the doors of a new £1.1m leisure complex in its first two months. Ten weeks since the activity centre opened at ROF 59 in Newton Aycliffe, just under 5,000 people have visited the former World War II munitions factory to sample its state-of-the-art attractions. ROF 59 underwent a £1.1m redevelopment...

X Factor star Josh Daniel is set to perform at a special Christmas show in Newton Aycliffe town centre. The 22-year-old Teessider, who narrowly missed out on the live finals in this year's competition, will line up alongside other former X Factor contestants in Aycliffe on Saturday 5th December. Josh, from Billingham, hit the headlines when...

In an effort to ensure equity and fairness within the workforce, a consultation exercise has begun within the Council on a proposal to bring teaching assistants’ terms and conditions in line with other council employees. Durham County Council is seeking agreement to pay its teaching assistants for the hours that they actually work, in line...

Victims are being asked what they would do if given the chance to come face to face with the young people who commit crimes against them. Between April and September this year, 236 victims of youth crime were contacted by Durham County Council’s Youth Offending Service to offer them the opportunity to see offenders give back to the wider...