The UKIP candidate for Newton Aycliffe has sparked outrage after it emerged he said a female journalist "needs a good shag". John Leathley, who's standing for the Sedgefield seat in the General Election on Thursday, also said that the well-known columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown "would love a big black thing up her a***" during his vile rant on...

Newton Aycliffe Juniors Under 9's travelled up to Berwick to compete in the Haggerston Classic Tournament over the Bank Holiday weekend. Both the Russell Foster and TJFA teams were represented each playing five group games over two days attempting to reach the final on the Sunday. The Russell Foster side were allocated to Group 2 and despite...

A Newton Aycliffe man has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving the car he was driving crashed in Middridge on Bank Holiday Monday. The 22-year-old was driving a silver Peugeot 206 through the village on Monday evening when he lost control of the vehicle. Police attended the scene shortly after 9.15pm and the driver was taken to James...

A message from Greg Robinson, the Green Party candidate for the Sedgefield seat in this year's General Election... While all the other parties squabble amongst themselves and look to use the election campaign as a point scoring exercise I, as the Green Party candidate, would like to draw people’s attention to the positives that they can...

Family, friends and colleagues of Newton Aycliffe Neighbourhood Inspector Mark Hall have paid tribute to him after his sudden death last week. Mr Hall, 47, who lived in Newton Aycliffe, fell ill when he was out on his bicycle on the evening of Thursday, April 23. He was taken to hospital in Darlington then transferred to Durham, where he...

The first image of what the region's first University Technical College (UTC), to be built in Newton Aycliffe, has been released. And the South Durham UTC, an engineering and advanced manufacturing Centre of Excellence, has also revealed the name of its new head teacher. As revealed on Aycliffe Today two weeks ago, planning for the £10m UTC...

Newton Aycliffe JUNIORS football round-up – Weekend of 25.04.15 U8’s Away to Hartlepool St Francis who stormed into a 2 goal lead, but we got back into the game with a goal from Kyle after good work from Parker. HT 2-1. Second half saw us press for an equaliser and looked likely but got caught on the break again to trail 3-1. Thomas pulled...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe's biggest employers has expanded again with the development of a new £11m press plant. Car parts maker Gestamp Tallent, which employs more than 1,300 people on Aycliffe Business Park, has updated the oldest part of its huge site in Aycliffe. The 17-metre tall extension is 75 metres in length and...

Former Newton Aycliffe FC captains Sean Tarling and John Close locked horns ahead of this weekend’s huge charity reunion game as they finalised their squads last night. In a specially arranged meeting, Close and Tarling spent three hours deliberating who they wanted to represent them in the Moore Lane Park showdown. The game is raising...

Residents in County Durham are reminded that there are no changes to bin collections during the May bank holiday weeks. All bin collections in the county will remain as usual during the weeks of Monday 4th May and Monday 25th May. Householders are asked to put their bins out near the kerbside by 7.00am on their usual day. This applies to...