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relocating to larger premises on
Aycliffe Business Park.
• Objections are made against a
new 80-home development near
Travellers Green.
• Police launch an investigation after
a 25-year-old man from Wales was
left with a serious head injury after
he was assaulted in the early hours
of the morning, in Humphrey Close.
•
Dan
Mellanby
controversially
resigns as manager of Aycliffe FC
just a fortnight before the start
of the Northern League kick-off.
He's later replaced by former
New Zealand international Adrian
Webster.
•
Meanwhile, the annual Frank
Swinburne Memorial Trophy match
against Northallerton Town raises
£500 for Great Aycliffe Cancer
Support Group.
AUGUST
• The Government confirms the first
Universal Technical College (UTC)
for the North-East will be in Newton
Aycliffe - the South Durham UTC,
sponsored by the University of
Sunderland, Hitachi Rail Europe
and Gestamp Tallent.
• Ebac clinches a deal to sell freezers
through national firm Argos.
• Newtonian and student journalist
Zoe Skerrett starts a four-week
internship programme with Aycliffe
Today as part of her journalism
degree studies at the University of
Sunderland.
• Local businessman John Wade
buys Aycliffe Village boozers The
North Briton and Telegraph, but
refuses to rule out bulldozing the
troubled Brit.
• The last ever Great Aycliffe Show
takes place after being an August
Bank Holiday tradition for 29 years.
•
South West Durham Training
(SWDT) celebrates double delight
after striking an Apprenticeship
deal with Hitachi Rail Europe before
it's rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.
SEPTEMBER
• Aycliffe charity cyclist Anthony
Cox completes a 24-hour, 300mile challenge from London
to Newcastle to raise £1,500
in memory of Mark Bulman, a
Newtonian who passed away from
cancer.
• Aycliffe FC are looking for their third
new manager of the season already
after Adrian Webster quits.
• Tekmar Energy is named Company
of the Year award at Aycliffe
Business Park’s Make Your Mark
awards event. Aycliffe Today's
prestigious business magazine is
named Best Newcomer.
• Aycliffe cricket team’s season ends
with a draw against Wolviston as
they finish the season fifth in the
NYSD League second division.
• A £650,000 footpath to link Newton
Aycliffe and Shildon, named the
Locomotion Way, is officially
opened.
•
Award-winning restaurant The
County celebrates a £50,000
makeover after seeing another
record year in turnover.
•
Great Aycliffe Town Council
confirms the annual Fireworks
Display will return in November.
NOVEMBER
• Aycliffe printers HPM and Addo
goes into administration with the
loss of 12 more jobs but is bought
by Addo Printing in a pre-pack deal.
• Newton Aycliffe falls silent on
Remembrance Sunday during a
touching tribute in the town centre.
• Proposals
for
Greenfield
Community College and Sunnydale
Community College to become one
school are approved.
• Aycliffe woman Lisa Phillips, 37,
is jailed for five months after lying
about being pregnant in a bid to
avoid jail, when she was originally
convicted in October 2013 for
stealing £14,700 from her aunt.
• In another exclusive, Gestamp
Tallent’s Plant Director Peter
Gallone talks to Aycliffe Today
editor Martin Walker in the
November-December issue of our
business magazine.
• Finley Structures reveal plans to
convert the former Presswork
Metals factory into a state-of-theart leisure facility including a rock
climbing facility.
•
Former Prime Minister and
Sedgefield MP Tony Blair visits
Woodham Academy - we brought
our readers an exclusive video
interview with Mr Blair.
OCTOBER
• A £40,000 Multi Use Games Area at
Horndale Park is officially opened.
• Aycliffe FC appoint former West
Auckland boss Peter Dixon as their
new manger.
•
Tributes are paid to popular
Newtonian Darren Ablewhite, who
dies suddenly.
• Ebac add 40 new staff to its team
as the production of chest freezers
cranks up.
• Plans are revealed to demolish the
Oak Tree pub and replace it with
two sets of two-storey apartment
blocks for people aged over 55.
• More than 11,000 cigarettes and
nearly 9kg of rolling tobacco are
seized from raids in Aycliffe and
Chilton.
•
Merchant Place Developments
reveal plans to bring 4,500 new
jobs to Aycliffe BusinessPark with a
five-year plan to develop Merchant
2 and 3.
DECEMBER
• Aycliffe Cricket Club have become
only the second club in NYSD
history to win the prestigious Gold
Club of the Year two years in a row.
•
Durham
Police
and
Crime
Commissioner Ron Hogg gathers
support for reform and increases
the pressure on the Government to
review UK drug policy.
• Aycliffe Today reveals plans by the
University of Sunderland to create a
new scheme designed specifically
to offer firms on Aycliffe Business
Park a free graduate scheme dubbed Development in Newton
Aycliffe (DNA).