Newton Aycliffe 55, South Shields Marine School 0 By Liam Kelly Newton Aycliffe stormed to victory against second-top and previously unbeaten South Shields Marine last weekend. Club captain and stalwart Warren Parsonage described the victory as Aycliffe’s finest hour. “I have played at Newton Aycliffe, man and boy, for 20 years and...

North Ferriby Utd 3, Newton Aycliffe 0 Emirates FA Cup 2nd preliminary round replay Newton Aycliffe's brave FA Cup run came to an end with defeat at North Ferriby United tonight. Following Saturday's 0-0 draw, in which Aycliffe could easily have snatched a shock win, Northern League side Aycliffe travelled to Hull for Tuesday night's...

The boss of the region's first University Technical College (UTC) says the beginning of construction in Newton Aycliffe marks a "very exciting moment". Work has now started on the £10m UTC South Durham, an engineering and advanced manufacturing Centre of Excellence, next to Hitachi Rail Europe's new train-assembling factory on Aycliffe...

• UTC South Durham opens in September 2016 and will be the first University Technical College in the North-East. • UTCs are state-funded technical schools that give students the skills they need to innovate and invent. • Studying at a UTC provides young people with the opportunity to gain both an academic and technical education in an...

Here's a brief history of news about the UTC over the last two years... September 2013 - Plans revealed University of Sunderland Professor Gary Holmes reveals exciting plans for the UTC at a meeting of th Aycliffe Business Park Community. We exclusively broke the story. August 2014 - Government backing The Government confirms first...

A new cycle shelter has been officially unveiled at Sabre Rail on Aycliffe Business Park. The shelter provides storage for up to 20 cycles and is available for use by staff and visitors to the company. The £5,000 shelter was funded by Local Motion, the sustainable transport project for South Durham, and was officially opened by...

Woodham Academy is celebrating another good year of language results. All students at Woodham Academy learn a language, with around two thirds taking a GCSE. And the school says 80% of students taking French this summer achieved a good GCSE grade (A*-C grade). Woodham's head of languages John Coley said: “I am so proud of our...

Team Local Motion popped into 3M with Dr Bike and Operation Spoke to give employees’ bikes a bit of a health check and security mark them for free. Dr Bike is a service which checks that bikes are safe to ride. The mechanic demonstrates how to do a simple check of the bike to ensure all the working and moving parts of it are healthy; carries...

Newton Aycliffe 0, North Ferriby Utd 0 Emirates FA Cup, second qualifying round By Bob Wood Newton Aycliffe pulled off one of the surprises of the FA Cup so far by holding a side 73 places above them to a draw at Moore Lane Park. North Ferriby play in the National League North, formerly the Conference North, which is three divisions...

Newton Aycliffe chairman Allan Oliver says Saturday's FA Cup tie at home to North Ferriby is the biggest occasion in the club's history. Aycliffe welcome the Conference North side to Moore Lane Park in the second qualifying round of the famous competition today (3pm kick-off). The Blues would pocket £4,500 in prize money if they win the...