Two people have been jailed for committing a series of car thefts in Newton Aycliffe earlier this year. As reported by the Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Team on their Facebook page, Lee Morris, 36, and 30-year-old Rachel Baines appeared at Durham Crown Court last Friday (May 24). Morris was jailed for nine months for theft from three...

By Martin Walker Business leaders in Newton Aycliffe have praised new London-based landowners who have promised to help improve the town's industrial estate. As revealed on Aycliffe Today earlier this month, a real estate joint venture has purchased about a quarter of Aycliffe Business Park property in a £11m deal. The land and...

A Newton Aycliffe man has been convicted of a racial offence. As reported on Newton Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Team's Facebook page, Kane Sams, 22, from the Ashfield area of the town, appeared in court in relation to an incident on May 6. It was alleged Sams used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly...

Social networking will be the main feature of a business networking event in Newton Aycliffe next week. Business leaders will meet at The HUB next Friday morning (May 31) for the latest event organised by the Aycliffe Business Park group. It will provide attendees with a brief overview of the most relevant and accessible applications as...

A Newton Aycliffe woman died after she's thought to have fallen down the stairs. Emergency services were called to Moules Close in Monday night after reports of a death. It's reported that a 43-year-old woman had been found by family members at the bottom of the stairs. She was confirmed dead at the scene. A post-mortem has been...

Students at Woodham Academy have been involved in an Apprenticeship challenge with local company Gestamp Tallent over the last six weeks. Six students have worked in groups to design, develop and produce a concept one-person transport system. Students took their final ideas and presented them as a sales pitch to a group of company...

A criminal has been forced to repay cash to three Newton Aycliffe shops after going on a thieving spree. Lewis Francis Bowmer, 19, from Aycliffe, appeared at the town's Magistrates Court on May 8 charged with several counts of shoplifting. As reported by NPT Sergeant Mark Edwards in his regular blog on Aycliffe Today, Bowmer was...

A coroner has warned of the dangers of hoarding and criticised TV programmes for trivialising the issue after a Newton Aycliffe pensioner died in a fire in a house packed with clutter. Firefighters took half an hour to come to the aid of Ann Bradshaw at her home in Honister Place a year ago. The rescue effort was hampered by hoarded...

A fairly brief question on our Facebook page was enough to provoke a mini outpouring of opinions recently, which suggest the general public is indeed disillusioned or disconnected with local politics. Less than one in four of us turned out for the Durham County Council elections, while the turn-out for the Aycliffe Council elections were no...

Representatives from Durham police will be speaking at the North East Retailers Against Crime event in a bid to drive down the risk of counterfeit currency fraud in the region. At the same time, officers across County Durham are warning people to be on their guard for fake bank notes over the coming weeks, after concerns were raised about...