Award-winning health and wellbeing charity Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) has once again been accredited as a Living Wage Employer, reaffirming its commitment to fairly paying employees and creating a great place to work across the North-East and beyond. PCP joins over 15,000 UK employers committed to ensuring their employees earn a real...

By Dave Robson It can be as simple as asking someone, “are you OK?” – but for Karen Nelson, watching out for her colleagues’ physical and mental wellbeing is a key part of her working life. A Senstronics employee for 24 years, training coordinator Karen is also one of its 10 health advocates – staff who, in addition to their daily...

Work to improve three key junctions along the A167 at Newton Aycliffe are now largely complete and all junctions are now fully open. Improvements at Rushyford Roundabout, Central Avenue and Ricknall Lane will improve road capacity to help facilitate the planned housing development at the Copelaw site. The upgrades, partially delivered by...

Newton Aycliffe’s cricket captain Chris Palmer made his 750th senior appearance for the club on Saturday in a home game against Stokesley. Chris made his debut as a 15-year-old in 2000 and quickly established himself in the side, becoming a regular in the first team set up as well as keeping wicket for the league select side at both junior...

Care, compassion and teamwork – three key ingredients to Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) winning the Service Business of the Year title, according to its chief executive. Wellbeing charity PCP was created in 1998 by Newton Aycliffe residents to develop a “one-stop shop” for disability services – and the Pioneering Care Centre was...

Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has taken on a new national leadership role to drive positive changes in road safety. The County Durham and Darlington PCC has been appointed joint lead for Roads Policing on behalf of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), alongside Warwickshire PCC Philip Seccombe. The new role...

It’s the firm that never lets the grass grow under its feet – and now Husqvarna UK’s engineering excellence has been recognised with a Make Your Mark award. Its evolution from manufacturing Flymo hover mowers to switching to more complex robotic mowers has been outstanding. And it’s now the 2025 Engineering and Manufacturing title...

As GCSE exam season approached, hundreds of students at Woodham Academy have shown their dedication and commitment to work hard by attending a range of weekend revision sessions in preparation for their GCSE exams. Students have been attending target revision sessions in English literature focusing on their key texts of Macbeth and An Inspector...

He started his career 12 years ago on a Teesside bridge revamp – but now “absolutely elated” Ryan Gibson is celebrating his firm winning the Newcomer of the Year title. Dart Industrial Services, which specialises in surface preparation and protective coatings application, only moved to Aycliffe from Teesside in early 2024. Aycliffe was...

Woodham Academy’s newly established photography cohort, along with their photography teacher Richard Gore, headed on a field trip to Newcastle for the day, earlier this month. They spent the day collecting a portfolio of photographs inspired by their surroundings. Initial photographs were taken, on route to Newcastle, of the Angel of the...