Aycliffe Today has revealed exciting plans to launch a brand new radio station just for Newton Aycliffe. Aycliffe's premier news outlet wants to get the new station on air this month. Bosses say they want to pack air-time with a range of popular music tracks and chart hits, so have appropriately named the proposed station Airplays Flood,...

Jane Ritchie ploughed £5m of her inheritance into fulfilling her dream of creating a facility which would encourage vocational learning in County Durham. Martin Walker finds out more about the Work Place... Jane Ritchie might not be a name familiar to many people on Aycliffe Business Park, but we have the Yorkshire woman to thank for one of...

An important collaboration between the fire service and local housing providers will see sprinkler systems fitted in homes across County Durham as part of the Safer Homes’ project. The agreement, announced during the Safer Homes’ week of action last week, is a first for the area and an exciting development in home fire safety. The...

  Communities across County Durham and Darlington are set to benefit from £150,000 towards projects aimed at improving community safety and reducing crime, thanks to a new funding scheme to be launched by the Police and Crime Commissioner. Ron Hogg, Durham's Police and Crime Commissioner, has teamed up with local grant-making charity...

More than 30,000 children in County Durham have completed a pedestrian training scheme. The 30,000 Year 3 primary school pupils from around the county have been given the Child Pedestrian Training by Durham County Council’s Road Safety Team. Their training included three practical sessions where children learnt about road safety and...

Guisborough Town 4, Newton Aycliffe 0 By Bob Wood A heavy defeat on Saturday to league leaders Guisborough Town leaves Newton Aycliffe still dangerously close to the relegation zone of Ebac Northern League Division One. Aycliffe are 17th, five points above the relegation places with just two games left to play. However, some of the...

Huntsman 2, Aycliffe Sports Club 3 By Paul Eales Derby Day came a week early in Newton Aycliffe as the Sports Club took the short trip to Simpasture Park to play local rivals The Huntsman. With just three games to go, the away side knew that a win would see them safely promoted in their first season in the Wear Valley Sunday League...

By Martin Walker Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic collision that occurred in Newton Aycliffe on Friday night. A black coloured Mercedes E350 collided with a red coloured Skoda Octavia taxi, resulting in the Mercedes leaving the road, on the A167 in between the Gretna Green pub and Central Avenue junction, at...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe's Mayor has hit out at Durham County Council's decision to cut street lighting along the A167 after it emerged three sets of lights were off when a serious accident happened on Friday night. As reported on Aycliffe Today, a taxi and a van were involved in a serious collision on the busy road at a spot in...

By Martin Walker Phil Wilson says Newton Aycliffe has a lot to be proud of after some hugely positive developments for the town in recent years. The Labour MP for Sedgefield was talking at the launch of his official 2015 general election campaign, held in Aycliffe town centre on Saturday morning. Mr Wilson retained his Sedgefield seat...