A drugs gang including three people from Newton Aycliffe have been jailed for a total of 22 years. Police officers arrested 18 people as part of Operation Orient - a series of dawn raids in Aycliffe, Bishop and Shildon - in December last year. Aycliffe Today reported exclusively from the scene with video footage and pictures of the...

Match Preview – Saturday 27th September 2014 NEWTON AYCLIFFE vs WHITLEY BAY The AuxAudio.co.uk Stadium. Kick off 3pm. By Paul McGeary Newton Aycliffe return to Moore Lane looking to secure only their second home victory of the campaign against a Whitley Bay side that are fast becoming the league’s ‘entertainers’. Bay –...

Great Aycliffe Town Council has confirmed the annual Fireworks Display will return this year. The authority had scrapped the event last year due to safety concerns, but has confirmed it will return for Aycliffe residents only on Wednesday 5th November this year. The fun will consist of a funfair for young children which will open at 5.30...

This week The Greenfield Gallery got a surge of visitors to its latest exhibition! The show by the Community Art Project was visited by two groups from Mandale Mill Primary School in Thornaby, as part of their topic “Muck, Mess & Mixtures.” The groups of Year 2 students visited Greenfield Arts for a day of art, gallery and new...

Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership (GAMP) are holding a community forum event to celebrate what’s ‘GREAT’ in Newton Aycliffe and Middridge. The Event is taking place on Saturday 8th November, from 10am until 2pm, at Newton Aycliffe Youth & Community Centre, and a range of local community groups and service providers will...

By Martin Walker Employees on Aycliffe Business Park are taking to the roads as part of an innovative project to encourage sustainable transport. Steve Shepperson is heading up the Local Motion project for Newton Aycliffe, with the primary aim of making it easier to walk, cycle and take public transport in the South of the...

All eyes were looking to the sky as a police helicopter dropped in to a Newton Aycliffe school today. Durham Constabulary's chopper made the surprise appearance at St Joseph's School on Thursday afternoon. The Newton Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Team were also in attendance, along with the force's traffic unit and off-road bike...

Two thirds (64%) of people from the North-East think that women should be allowed more space in shared wardrobes than men, according to a new study launched by British Heart Foundation (BHF). When asked why women should be allowed more space in the wardrobe, over one third of people from the North-East (35%) said it was because women are...

Newton Aycliffe slumped to their seventh league defeat of the season at Newcastle Benfield on Wednesday night. After their much-needed, morale-boosting victory at Billingham Synthonia last weekend, Allan Oliver's were dealt another blow with their third away loss of the campaign against a team struggling with them in the bottom half of the...

Proving that everyone can and should embrace social media, inbound marketing agency, thrive, is delivering social media training events in Newton Aycliffe. Thrive was approached by our area’s local business support and guidance facilitators, the South Durham Enterprise Agency, to deliver social media advice and practical support as part...