Pupils in the Stephenson Way gardening club received a pleasant surprise when they returned to school last month; a basketball-sized pumpkin had sprouted in the school garden! Beginning in April, the club has the joint goal of breathing new life into the school’s garden area and showing the children that hard work can be fun and...

Newton Aycliffe bounced back from more cup heartache with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Northern League heavyweights Whitley Bay. A brace from in-form Jamie Owens and a Danny Lambert strike extended the Royal Blues’ unbeaten run at Moore Lane Park in Division One to seven games. A fifth win of the campaign moved Allan Oliver’s men...

Newton Aycliffe manufacturing firm Ebac has acquired a new site to begin production of freezers within the next couple of months. Ebac has spent more than £1m on purchasing a 60,000 square foot factory previously owned by Radius Systems on Aycliffe Business Park. The factory, which is not far from Ebac's current 180,000 sq. ft. premises...

Police are appealing for help after a bike was stolen in Aycliffe. This bike (pictured) was taken from an address in Espin Walk on Thursday night. If anyone has any information regarding it please call 101, quoting DHM-04102013-0046, or message the police on Facebook.   ...

By Paul Eales October sees a month full of Away cup games for Aycliffe Sports Club and also saw the end of September finish with a good hard worked victory over The Wheatsheaf in the Darlington PMA League Cup. The PMA Cup is held for both divisions of the DSIL Sunday Football and saw this tie matched off against two teams who already...

Stephenson Way Community Primary School opened its doors to parents in order to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support last Friday. The school hosted three half-hour sessions throughout the morning last Friday to allow different year groups to join their parents to enjoy a hot or cold drink and choose from a smorgasbord of cakes, the...

By Martin Walker A key business leader in Newton Aycliffe says there’s no reason Aycliffe Business Park can’t be the biggest and best in the region. Kerina Clark, general manager of the Xcel Centre in Newton Aycliffe, says the attention is now firmly on Aycliffe Business Park (ABP). Construction of Hitachi Rail Europe’s £82m...

Newton Aycliffe were knocked out of the Brooks Mileson League Cup by a dramatic late-winner. Team Northumbria edged past the Royal Blues for the second time in three seasons as Peter Watling scored the only goal of the game in stoppage time. Allan Oliver's men were missing John Close, Dan Molyneux, Fred Woodhouse and Scott Oldfield...

Local mixed martial arts fighter David Cunliffe added another win to his list after a 36 second submission victory over Newcastle’s Ryan Hovells for the featherweight British MMA title. Since last year, when David began his MMA career he has hit the featherweight division by force, beating his last four opponents in the first round by...

A local franchise of a national company based in County Durham is quickly exceeding expectations after seeing turnover jump by 40 per cent in its first two years. Lisa Fleming bought the DL franchise for Driver Hire, a national network providing recruitment services to the transport and logistics industry, in 2011. What started out as a...