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...

A Newton Aycliffe school celebrated World Book Day last week with a series of activities to mark the occasion. Children from Stephenson Way were invited to attend school dressed as their favourite literary character. This transformed school into a fantasy world where Harry Potter could find Wally, Horrid Henry could terrorise a...

A strategy aimed at ensuring all children in County Durham get the best possible start in life is to be discussed by councillors. The Early Years Strategy has been developed by Durham County Council and County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust in consultation with a range of partners, including doctors, midwives, nurseries, day care...

A Newton Aycliffe man has been locked up for damaging a car. As reported in Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Team Sergeant Mark Edwards’ blog on Aycliffe Today, John Alan Charlton, 21, from Honister Place in the town, appeared at Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday (5th March), charged with damaging the windscreen of a Peugeot...

North-East entrepreneurs who started a unique lost and found website have scooped a competition worth £100,000 organised by an Aycliffe Business Park partnership. Lostbox was set up in February 2013 after founder Clare Owen, from Durham, found a priceless piece of jewellery during a Premier League football game. Clare has made several...

Durham County Council want to start charging for the collection of garden waste from next year. Kerbside collections for garden waste in County Durham will remain free this year, and then look set to continue from 2015 as an opt-in service with an annual fee of £20. Following a public consultation last autumn, the authority claims there...