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...

An action plan which will outline how County Durham will support the UK response to the Syrian refugee crisis is to be developed by a new partnership. The Durham Humanitarian Support Partnership will be led by the county council and will meet as a matter of urgency to clarify and progress the part Durham will play in responding to the...

Aycliffe printing company Newton Press has secured £130,000 of funding to support its relocation to the Blue Bridge Centre. The long established, family-run print company has been backed with a £130k financial package from UK Steel Enterprise, the Tata Steel business-support subsidiary. Made up of a £50k unsecured loan and an £80k grant...

A renowned North East commercial law firm has set up a specialist employment law office on Aycliffe Business Park. Whitehead and Low Solicitors LLP, one of Northumberland's leading commercial law firms, have opened an Aycliffe office to establish a presence in County Durham. The Aycliffe team is headed up by Paul Humble, a senior employment...

Parachuting teddy bears will form part of the entertainment at a special celebration day in Heighington this weekend. St Michael’s Church is holding a Heritage Day on Saturday (12th September), with tours of the church yard taking place at 12 noon and 2.30pm. And, weather permitting, teddy bears will be parachuted from the top of the...

A community champion is upset that his efforts to clean up the Boating Lake in Newton Aycliffe have been described as "hopeless" by a local councillor. The recurring problem of duckweed continues to blight the West Park lake in the town, known as the Boating Lake. But Ken Robson, a volunteer who chairs both the ACORN Residents' Association...