Nearly 43,000 people across County Durham are being urged not to lose their right to vote following changes to the way the electoral register is compiled. The introduction of Individual Electoral Registration means people are now required to register to vote individually, rather than by household. The new system also allows residents to...

Woodham Sports Academy students achieved record GCSE results this year, with 81% achieving five or more GCSEs at A*-C grade, including English and Mathematics. Woodham's acclaimed sporting provision offers high quality coaching opportunities to elite athletes in a range of sports, including football, dance, gymnastics, American football,...

Teesside University is in the running for a prestigious award for its commitment to encouraging enterprise. For the second year in succession, the University has been shortlisted in the Entrepreneurial University of the Year category in the Times Higher Education (THE) awards. The award is given to universities which have ‘developed an...

More than 190,000 households are being invited to join the County Durham garden waste collection service next year. From spring 2015 there will be an annual fee of £20 for garden waste collections from the kerbside. It will also be offered to an additional 35,000 properties which are not covered by the current scheme. Letters are being...

By Martin Walker Business Secretary Vince Cable has praised Hitachi Rail Europe after the Japanese firm revealed it is working with more than 30 UK-based suppliers for trains which will be built at its Newton Aycliffe factory. Of those parts, systems and operations that Hitachi Rail Europe could have sourced from the UK for the new...

Local radio station Star Radio will make a business awards event sparkle next week! The County Durham station's star DJ Tim Lichfield will form part of the entertainment at Aycliffe Business Park's glitzy Make Your Mark event at the Xcel Centre on Thursday 18th September. A high-profile guest speaker will also form part of the line-up,...

Newton Aycliffe first team's disappointing second half of the season continued with a 41-run home defeat to Redcar's second XI. Fast bowler Matty Atkinson (pictured) picked up yet another man-of-the-match award after taking five wickets for 46 from 13 overs before top scoring with 19. But it wasn't enough for the home side, as Aycliffe...

Police are appealing for information after a bike was stolen in Newton Aycliffe. The red and silver Kobe bicycle was stolen from a garden in Tindale Green, some time between 8.30-10pm on Monday 1st September. Police say the back wheel on the bike was buckled and there was no rear brake. If anyone saw anything suspicious during the...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe FC are looking for a new manager after boss Adrian Webster quit on Sunday, just eight games into the 2014-15 season. Webster succeeded Dan Mellanby just before the start of the new campaign after the popular Newtonian stepped aside in the summer. But the former New Zealand international today told...

By Martin Walker The leader of Great Aycliffe Town Council has threatened to sue a local paper over an accusation of being a fascist. In a letter penned by Ken Robson, chairman of the Friends of West Park, and published by the Newton Aycliffe weekly publication, Newton News, he accused elite councillors as being "environmental...