Students from Woodham Academy enjoyed a performance from the band Projekt Weekend. The boys were in school to take part in a cross curricular Music and Personal, Social and Health Education project, which allowed students in Years 7, 8 and 9 to sing alongside the band members. The boys are an up-and-coming new band who have played with...

Police are appealing for information after a car was set on fire in Newton Aycliffe. The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday 25th April, in the Booth Walk area of the town. Police would like to appeal for witnesses to call 101 and ask for DC 2214 Richards in the Ayclffe Serious Crime Team.  ...

Newtonian Jason Steele was a double winner at Boro's End of Season Awards night this week. A glittering night was held at the Riverside in association with Boro's official sponsor Ramsdens. There were seven awards, four of which were voted for by Boro fans on the club's official website, mfc.co.uk And Aycliffe lad Steele picked up...

By Martin Walker Darlington legend Neil Maddison has told Aycliffe Today how he's delighted for his former club after they were crowned Northern League champions this week. The 43-year-old former Middlesbrough and Southampton midfielder spent six years with his hometown club before a number of years on the coaching staff, including two...

By Martin Walker A real estate joint venture has purchased about a quarter of Aycliffe Business Park premises in a £11m deal - we can exclusively reveal. In the May-June issue of our B2B magazine, Aycliffe Today Business, due out tomorrow (Friday), property boss Matthew Cheyne (pictured) from London-based M7 talks about exciting new...

A multi-media agency in the region is currently recruiting for five new posts to enhance its 45-strong workforce. HPM Group, based on Aycliffe Business Park, is recruiting due to growth and is looking for a creative director, a client services manager, a senior sales executive for print and another for digital and a junior sales...

Year 5 and 6 students of St.Francis and Byerley Park primary schools have been busy enjoying swimming lessons in the pool at Woodham Academy this term. As part of the lessons, students have been having a great time developing their water confidence skills and swimming techniques under the watchful eye of qualified swimming coach, Heather...

Subsea technology firm Tekmar is to invest £1m in more than trebling the size of its Newton Aycliffe headquarters as it chases new oil and gas opportunities, and creating 30 new jobs in the process. The company, based on Aycliffe Business Park which currently supplies offshore wind cable protection systems, is looking to expand its...

Woodham Academy has launched an innovative new project designed to encourage students to read more widely. Over the course of the next few weeks the school will be releasing to students mock press releases, TV interviews, CSI reports, suspect profiling and other information based upon a fictional event where suspicious items were found...

NPT Sergeant Mark Edwards continues his regular blog on Aycliffe Today... It’s that time again for my next blog and I’d like to start this time by commenting on change. Change is that funny thing that can happen anytime – it’s a reality of life. I’m referring to the change that is again occurring within the team. No sooner...