Residents in Great Aycliffe and Middridge can find out how local issues are being tackled when the Area Action Partnership meets later this month. The GAMP board meeting is on Tuesday 20 January 2015 (6pm to 8pm) at Great Aycliffe Town Council offices. Local people can also raise any neighbourhood concerns they want the board to address....

Newton Aycliffe Sports Club 5, Darlington Rolling Mills 3 Wear Valley Sunday Morning League 11th January 2015 Aycliffe Sports Club claimed their eighth consecutive win to go top of the table for the first time this season. After a 4-2 home win against Witton Victoria, the Sports Club went one better at the weekend with a magnificent 5-2...

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By Ryan Burton Newton Aycliffe FC Chairman Allan Oliver has praised Gary Farley after announcing his decision to leave the club. Farley leaves the club after eight years at Moore Lane Park. He spent seven years in a dual role as chairman and assistant manager. Oliver, who took over as chairman in the summer after previously being...

Police have issued a picture of a man they'd like to speak to in relation to a theft which took place at Newton Aycliffe's Tesco store. As reported on Aycliffe Today last week, a suspected thief asked a member of staff at Tesco to remove security tags from computer games before leaving the store without paying. The incident happened on...

Shildon 3, Newton Aycliffe 1 Newton Aycliffe were left to curse their ill-discipline as they threw away three points against title challengers Shildon on Saturday, imploding in the second half which saw them surrender their early lead and have two men sent for an early bath. Dennis Knight gave the visitors and early lead on the counter...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 25-year-old Newton Aycliffe man died when his car left the road and crashed in Bishop Auckland at the weekend. It happened just before 8.50pm on Saturday (10th January) at Close House in Bishop Auckland. One vehicle was involved, a blue Audi A4 driven by Shane Michael Smith, of Stainforth Close,...

By Martin Walker Inspirational fundraiser Paul McGeary has set an ambitious goal to reach the £10,000 mark after almost doubling his original target. The 33-year-old Newtonian, who was diagnosed with leukaemia at the end of November, has been undergoing a gruelling programme of Chemotherapy at the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough...

By Ryan Burton Horndale Residents’ Association has been awarded a £6,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund. The Newton Aycliffe group will use the money to fund community fun days and a number of low cost day trips throughout the year. Philip Clark, chairman of Horndale Residents’ Association (pictured above) said: “We are...

Police are appealing for information after a motor bike was stolen in Aycliffe Village. A statement said the motorcycle was taken from a garden shed in the Bickford Terrace area, some time overnight between last Saturday and Sunday (3-4th Jauary). Anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101.  ...