A Newton Aycliffe manufacturing firm is set to appear on a new primetime TV programme tonight! Aycliffe Business Park-based Ebac featured on BBC2’s Digby Jones: The New Troubleshooter on Thursday (8pm). The former Trade Minister and CBI Director General, Lord Digby Jones, has spent months working behind the scenes with Ebac’s team...

Huntsman 3, Wheatsheaf 2 Huntsman entertained the Wheatsheaf at Simpasture Park on Sunday knowing only victory would keep alive their title hopes and they came out victorious 3-2 in a tight affair which they probably didn’t deserve to win. Wheatsheaf started the game brightly and dominated the opening 10 minutes with the Huntsman...

Residents across County Durham are being reminded to ‘Bin it right’ to make sure their recycling can continue to be used to make new products. The six month ‘Bin it right’ campaign, starting this month, will encourage residents to put the right items in the right bin to stop recyclable material being contaminated and spoiled by...

Newton Aycliffe 1, Shildon 1 Newton Aycliffe FC put an end to their recent run of defeats on Easter Bank Holiday Monday, and in doing so ended any slim chance that remained of Shildon lifting the Northern League First Division trophy. With Spennymoor defeating Team Northumbria earlier in the day, Shildon knew nothing less than the three...

Newton Aycliffe's cricket team lost their 2014 curtain-raising game against Middlesbrough at the weekend. Aycliffe's first XI, promoted from the NYSD third division to the second at their first attempt last year, lost by 83 runs against Boro's second XI, despite a tremendous bowling performance by man-of-the-match from Sean Morgan, who took...

If yoga seems a little too much like hard work for you, and you want to try something different from a one to one therapy, how about trying a very special aural event known as a Sound Bath? PCP’s Sound Therapist Jane Farrand will be facilitating another Sound Bath at the Pioneering Care Centre. The next one is on Friday 25 April, 10.30...

Newton Aycliffe FC’s disappointing run of results continued on Saturday, as Bedlington Terriers secured a late win to all but guarantee their own First Division survival and condemn Team Northumbria to the drop. But boss Allan Oliver will certainly be a happier man than seven days previously, as his team turned in a much improved...

By Martin Walker The financial negotiations for Hitachi's £5.8bn Intercity Express Programme (IEP) which will be delivered in Newton Aycliffe have been signed off by the Government. The British Department for Transport and Agility Trains (with its main shareholders Hitachi and John Laing) have reached financial close for the fleet of...

Homes and communities business livin is celebrating after achieving a trio of top awards for its apprenticeships and employability programmes. Helen Johnson, livin futures manager for livin was named coach/mentor of the year at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) North East awards this month capping a remarkable year for the livin...

A Newton Aycliffe-based crowdfunding platform is hoping to raise vital cash to help bring an exciting football facility in the town to fruition. Growthfunders, the North of England’s first online equity crowdfunding platform, is helping the team behind The Soccer Factory to raise investment funds. The indoor soccer-led mixed leisure...