The wheels are already in motion for a new cycling club based in Newton Aycliffe. Aycliffe Velo has been launched by bike enthusiasts from the town, with a goal of enabling cyclists of any ability to enjoy the sport. A lot of behind-the-scenes work has already gone into setting the group up, but Aycliffe Velo will step up a gear when...

Six enthusiastic Year 9 students from Woodham Academy attended a Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) project introduction day at GlaxoSmithKline in Barnard Castle. The project, organised by the Engineering Development Trust (EDT), is aimed at 12-14 year olds to encourage them to consider a career in engineering. The...

PCP are encouraging people to get involved in the nation’s biggest community gardening volunteering event, The Big Dig. On Friday 21st March, 10am-1pm, Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) are opening its community garden gates and getting it ready for the new growing season. If you’re enthusiastic about gardening, or would just like to...

Newton Aycliffe FC found themselves on the wrong end of a convincing 4-0 scoreline when they travelled to Dunston on Wednesday night. With new signing Gary Wood unavailable, Aycliffe were forced to make a change from the side that won at Bishop last week, with Stephen Butterworth coming in to replace him. Aycliffe started the game...

By Martin Walker Durham County Council has been named Council of the Year from a record-breaking 640 entries. John Clare, County Councillor and an Aycliffe Town Councillor, has hailed it a “fantastic achievement”. The authority was named Council of the Year at the 2014 Local Government Chronicle Awards, the biggest celebration of...

The next edition of Aycliffe Today Business has arrived – and is now winging its way around Aycliffe Business Park. Mailed copies are in the post and we’ll be delivering the rest over the course of Friday. Our main/cover feature is about a fitness drive that’s sweeping across the park – Local Motion – and we talk to...

A Newton Aycliffe steel specialist company is set for a third successive record-breaking year. SCH Site Services, based on Aycliffe Business Park, started out in 2006 operating as a crane hire company with four mobile cranes and four drivers working for local companies. The firm first started to explore the secondary steelwork market in...

Police would like to speak to a man suspected of taking someone else’s cash from an ATM machine. Aycliffe police officers are looking for the man pictured (above) after he allegedly took £100 from the machine at Tesco, after it had been left by someone else. If you recognise the chap, or have any information, please call the Aycliffe...

As is often the case at this time of the year, the Northern League fixture computer has suddenly presented Aycliffe with a tough, and possibly season-defining run of games. Over the next 11 games, Allan Oliver’s men will be in action no fewer than four times. But such is the way in the Northern League, and Oliver and his men will see...

By Martin Walker A wide-reaching vision for County Durham which could see the town’s business park become the biggest in the North-East is set for approval. A report to Durham County Council’s cabinet next Wednesday (19th March) says the blueprint for housing and jobs across the county up to 2030 should get the nod. But the County...