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...

Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre has been given a facelift after 30 volunteers turned out as part of a week-long improvement project. The project, valued at over £19,000 was led by homes and communities organisation livin as part of its livin community fund set up to support local initiatives and was made possible with support from repairs and...

A Newtonian is looking forward to a boyhood dream when he’s expected to play at England’s national stadium next week. Chris Mason, a former Woodham Academy pupil from Aycliffe, has been with Spennymoor Town for the last four seasons, winning three Northern League titles with Aycliffe’s County Durham neighbours. The 26-year-old...