A Newton Aycliffe man has been charged with wounding with intent after a knife attack in the town on Friday evening. As reported on Aycliffe Today, a 32-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach during an incident near Reeth Place in the town at around 6.30pm on Friday night. The victim was air-lifted to The James Cook University Hospital in...

Plans to build a new care home on the site of the former police station in Newton Aycliffe have now been submitted. As exclusively revealed by Aycliffe Today in March, Durham Constabulary agreed to sell the 1.1-acre site to a care home group. It was confirmed in May that Gateshead-based Helen McArdle Care had acquired the site for...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing in Newton Aycliffe. It happened on a stretch of grass next to Reeth Place in the town at around 6.30pm on Friday night. A 32-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach with what police believe may have been a kitchen knife. He remains in a stable condition in The...

Millions of telephone users in the North East will benefit from clearer call charges being introduced next month by the telecoms regulator Ofcom. From 1st July, landline and mobile charges will become clearer for calls to numbers starting 084, 087, 09 and 118, while Freephone will become free from mobiles. People use these ‘service...

Woodham Academy's PE Department is celebrating after three students qualified for the County Durham Athletics Championships. Lisa Robinson (200m), Blake Airey (High Jump) and Harry Condren (800m) have all qualified in their age range to represent the Durham County squad at the event which is due to be held at Monkton Stadium on Sunday (13th...

A recent successful project funded by Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) and delivered by the Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) has helped residents of Newton Aycliffe with long-term health conditions get back into work, volunteering or training. The Work for Health programme aimed to support 35 local unemployed residents by...

Police are appealing for information after a bicycle was stolen in the town. The mountain bike, similar to the one pictured above, was taken from outside the McColl's shop at Washington Crescent at around 3.45pm yesterday (Wednesday). Anyone with information is asked to call PC 1943 Nelson on 101. ...

The Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club scoreboard from last weekend’s double weekend of fixtures… Saturday 6th June - NYSD Division 2Newton Aycliffe 1st XI v Seaton Carew 2nd XI - weather was windy and cool. Seaton Carew won the toss and chose to bat first.   Seaton Carew 2nd XI 115 all out after 35.3 overs Luke Telford 4 for 8,...

Year nine students at Woodham Academy have started to create their own retro platform game in the style of Mario Bros.  When finished, the game will run on the internet via a web browser. Students are combining skills they have been learning from Year 7 which range from drawing their own characters to creating and modifying the code...

Fourteen local groups ranging from sports clubs to older peoples groups in the Newton Aycliffe area have been boosted by a community grant fund. The Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) Community Grant Fund has proved to be a major boost for a number of local groups and in some cases has provided essential funding to help them...