Newton Aycliffe company Stiller Warehousing and Distribution is looking to expand into new markets after opening a new £1.1m warehouse. Stiller provides cost-effective warehousing and distribution services to businesses in the North East region as well as commercial property lettings. Their new 40,000 sq ft, 5,000-pallet warehouse will...

Newton Aycliffe FC have signed a club record sponsorship deal with Mantis Media and Aycliffe Today for the new Northern League season. The Newton Aycliffe media firm has agreed to sponsor the club's home and away strips as well as the players' tracksuits for the 2015-16 campaign. Mantis managing editor Martin Walker (pictured above with...

Leading budget hotel group Premier Inn is applying to almost double the size of its Newton Aycliffe facility. The UK's largest hotel brand, owned by Dunstable-based Whitbread, has applied to Durham County Council to build an extension to accommodate 31 new rooms and additional parking at its Aycliffe site, next to the Gretna Green pub along the...

Newton Aycliffe's Northern League side go to Jarrow Roofing this weekend looking to build on their midweek derby win at Bishop Auckland. Peter Dixon's side are sixth in the Ebac Northern League first division after three wins from their opening five league games. Victory over Bishop at Heritage Park on Wednesday night came thanks to goals...

Aycliffe Today has covered every big event and story surrounding Hitachi's new factory over the last three years. Here's a brief timeline of the key events: Hitachi Open Day 28th June 2012 We featured interviews with Phil Wilson and Hitachi's newly-appointed plant manager Darren Cumner from an open day at the Xcel Centre, as well as...

Click on the pictures below showing Hitachi's opening ceremony on Aycliffe Business Park... ...

David Cameron insists there's enough support and investment to make sure Hitachi's new factory in Newton Aycliffe doesn't go the same way as Fujitsu 20 years ago. The once famous Fujitsu factory was opened by the Queen in 1991, following an enormous £340m investment by the Japanese firm. But after propping up the Aycliffe operation to the...

Hitachi Rail today celebrated the return of rail manufacturing to its British home in the North East, joining with key delivery partners at the official opening of a £82m Rail Vehicle Manufacturing Facility in Newton Aycliffe. The facility is where the Government’s new InterCity Express (IEP) trains for the East Coast Main Line and Great...

Hitachi Rail Europe's new train-building facility will be officially opened by Prime Minister David Cameron during a special ceremony later this morning. More than three years after Hitachi's Intercity Express Programme (IEP) deal was finally signed off, special guests and dignitaries will see the Japanese firm's state-of-the-art manufacturing...

Best friends Lucie Lambert and Leah Banks are raising hundreds of pounds for a charity which creates wigs for young cancer sufferers. And the Aycliffe girls are doing it by lopping off most of their own hair! Leah saw a leaflet in a local hairdresser's advertising the Little Princess Trust, a national charity which provides real hair wigs to...