Zoe Skerrett continues her X Factor review, summing up week three of the popular ITV programme... With 187 acts through to the next round it was time for the arena auditions this weekend. Beginning with a few poor acts before jumping straight into 17-year-old James Graham singing Bonnie Ray’s I Can’t Make You Love Me. He had the...

Celtic Nation 3, Newton Aycliffe 2 By Paul McGeary Newton Aycliffe lost another winnable game as they went down by the odd goal in five at Celtic Nation. Allan Oliver’s side remain in trouble at the lower reaches of the table after their sixth league defeat in eight games, following their 3-2 reverse to the Carlisle outfit. The...

In This Issue: Gary Finley is orchestrating an up-and-coming construction firm at the heart of Aycliffe Business Park.  Also, catch up on the latest Hitachi developments... Click here to read this issue of Aycliffe Today Business online....

The Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is now an annual event at the Pioneering Care Centre in Newton Aycliffe and this year PCP is hosting a ‘coffee with crafts’ event. The Coffee Morning is taking place on Friday 26th September between 10am–1pm. In addition to the refreshments sold in the Mall Coffee Shop within the...

Local family firm Gregg Little Testing Centre is getting behind the town's football club with a new sponsorship for the 2014-15 season. The company, which has been based on Aycliffe Business Park for 25 years, has forked out £1,000 to sponsor the Northern League club's tracksuits. The deal is another example of the football club working...

Cruel thieves have targeted Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club's brand new score box for a second time. The latest incident happened in the early hours of Monday morning, when thieves got away with some of the players' kit. It comes just a few weeks after the new electronic score box, which was revamped in the summer thanks to GAMP funding,...

Road policing crews are taking part in a Europe-wide seatbelt campaign this week. The initiative will see officers from the Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit stopping vehicles where drivers or passengers are not wearing their seatbelts as part of the work carried out by TISPOL (European Traffic Police Network) all this...

Newton Aycliffe 0, Marske United 2 By Paul McGeary Allan Oliver was back in the home dugout but unfortunately it was a familiar story as Aycliffe were once again defeated – their seventh in nine games – on a lively Wednesday evening at the AuxAudio.co.uk Stadium. Marske, sitting fourth in the table with games in hand came out of...

A Newton Aycliffe woman who was sparred jail for being pregnant is now being charged with perverting the course of justice. Lisa Phillips, of Eskdale Place, was given a four-month jail sentence for theft last year, but the term was suspended after she claimed she was due to give birth. The 37-year-old denied a charge of perverting the...

Zoe Skerrett continues her weekly review of the X Factor... Much to my disappointment there was no controversy, no arguing and no disagreements on the X Factor this weekend. With only one act that caused a rife between the judges, everyone else either got through with four yes’s or went home with four resounding no’s. Although...