A North East media company is giving businesses an online boost with the launch of a new viral payment scheme. Anson Corporate Media, based in Newton Aycliffe, has introduced its unique viewing charge to enable companies to promote and generate more business online without having to manage up-front costs. Having established an ability to...

Brodie Millichap picks out this week's TV highlights... Five Picks of the Week The Secret Millionaire: Monday 9pm, Channel 4. Telecoms tycoon Philip Johnston is the millionaire that goes undercover in Swansea this week. Johnston goes on a personal crusade where he meets a couple raising money to pay for treatment for their...

Aycliffe Today Sports Editor and Newton Aycliffe FC reporter Glen Robertson continues his daily Euro 2012 blog… DAY TEN REVIEW Germany 2-1 Denmark Portugal 2-1 Netherlands The Group of Death was always going to claim a high profile victim, but you’d have had a job convincing anyone beforehand that, not only would the...

By Glen Robertson Football fans are frantically clearing their diaries this morning after the 2012/13 season fixtures were released. And Sunderland and Newcastle fans will both be keeping October 20 2012 and April 13 2013 clear for the Tyne-Wear derbies. Newcastle travel to the Stadium of Light in October, looking to extend their...

  Aycliffe Today Sports Editor and Newton Aycliffe FC reporter Glen Robertson continues his daily Euro 2012 blog… DAY NINE REVIEW Greece 1-0 Russia Czech Rep 1-0 Poland I think it is safe to say that nobody will be getting 100% on Newton Aycliffe FC’s Euro 2012 predictor. Did anyone see Czech Republic topping the group,...

By Martin Walker Newton Aycliffe manager Allan Oliver says there are more signings to come as he continues to strengthen his squad for the 2012-13 season. The ambitious Newtonians boss bagged his third impressive new signing this week when he persuaded the much-courted striker Gavin Barton to join Aycliffe, turning down a string of other...

Aycliffe Today Sports Editor and Newton Aycliffe FC reporter Glen Robertson continues his daily Euro 2012 blog… DAY EIGHT REVIEW France 2-0 Ukraine A win for the co-hosts would have put them into the quarter-finals, but they got no where near as a classy France side won 2-0, after the match was suspended for an hour due to a...

By Martin Walker Sunday will represent a proud day in the history of Woodham College when two people from the school will carry the Olympic Torch. Student Richie Howe will carry the Torch, which passes through Aycliffe shortly after 3.30pm on Sunday, for a 300-metre stint in Darlington. The school’s PE teacher and Assistant Head...

By Martin Walker A Newton Aycliffe company has invested £450,000 on a new state-of-the-art crane. SCH Site Services, based on Aycliffe Business Park in Newton Aycliffe, has received delivery of the new Terex Challenger 3160, manufactured and shipped from Zweibrucken in Germany, boasting the first of its kind operating in the...

By Martin Walker The hope of making history is still burning within Jason Steele after he was included in a 35-man provisional squad for Team GB. Head coach Stuart Pearce trimmed his squad from 80 to 35 over the last few days and Steele survived the cull, keeping him in line to be the first Boro player since George Hardwick to represent...