Church bells almost 600-years-old are being celebrated as part of Heritage Day. The region's architecture, culture and history is being celebrated today (Saturday 12th September) as part of this year's Heritage Open Day, which has been running all week. The festival, co-ordinated by the National Trust, offers free access to places which are...

Cash from the sale of an old people's home in Newton Aycliffe has helped to fund a new Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) for local children. The new £36,000 MUGA at Moore Lane, near Aycliffe Sports Club, was officially opened this week by Aycliffe Mayor Mary Dalton, her consort, councillor Michael Dalton, and one of Aycliffe's Durham County...

Traffic cops and police dogs from Cleveland and Durham’s joint policing team are set to star in a new series of the popular ‘Police Interceptors’ show. Over several weeks earlier this year film crews from the Channel Five programme followed officers from the Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit (CDSOU) as they went about their...

Phil Wilson has reiterated his long-held assertion that Aycliffe Business Park is very much on the up. The Labour MP for Sedgefield was a proud guest at the opening ceremony of Hitachi Rail Europe's new £82m train assembly factory last week. During speeches, Mr Wilson was again credited by Hitachi supermo Alistair Dormer for the crucial...

By Craig Woodhead The Huntsman’s great start to the 2015-16 season carried over to cup action at the weekend with a convincing 3-0 away to Witton Gilbert. A full 18-man squad made the trip, with Neil Dodds forced into a couple of changes from the recent winning side due to injuries Ryan Durr, Anth Harrison and Ryan Mercer all coming into...

Click here to read the September-October 2015 edition of our award-winning Aycliffe Today Business magazine. In this issue Ebac boss Pamela Petty encourages Aycliffe firms to get involved in this years awards competition for Aycliffe Business Park... Also inside: OneGym, Major Recruitment, Premo Fabrications, Whitehead & Low and The...

Road policing crews from Cleveland and Durham Police are supporting a Europe-wide seatbelt campaign this week week. The initiative will see officers stopping vehicles where drivers or passengers are not wearing their seatbelts all this week as part of the work carried out by TISPOL, the European traffic police network. And with schools...

Durham County Council is proposing to axe free buses for students in £740,000 cost-saving measures. Changes to free school transport entitlement, to come into force in September 2016, will be considered by councillors next week as part of a series of measures aimed at managing reductions in public sector funding. The local authority is...

A Newton Aycliffe factory which closed seven years ago has re-opened thanks to a £750,000 expansion by an existing fabrications firm, creating 20 new jobs. Premo Fabrications has relocated from 28,000 sq ft premises at Coatham Avenue on Aycliffe Business Park to the former Thrislington partitions building on Durham Way South. Thrislington...

A round-up of last weekend's cricket action... Saturday 5th September – NYSD Division 2 Newton Aycliffe 1st XI v Sedgefield 2nd XI – weather was cool and cloudy. Sedgefield won the toss and asked Aycliffe to bat first. Newton Aycliffe 1st XI 225 all out after 35 overs Sam Telford 69, Stephen Sweeney 45 and Tom Wickins 26 Sedgefield 2nd...