Aycliffe Today Business Aycliffe Today Business Issue 41 | Page 9

The magazine for Aycliffe Business Park | 9 /NEWS BUSINESS BRIEFS £4.9M GROWTH FUND More than 300 new jobs could be created with the launch of a £4.9m fund to help County Durham’s small and medium sized businesses to expand and grow. The three-year County Durham Growth Fund has been launched by Business Durham, the economic development arm of Durham County Council, to help stimulate and enable businesses to grow by providing funding towards capital investment projects. The King’s Arms owners Paul and Ycheng Bussey with sous chef Matthew Hall (right) and junior sous chef Sylvester Scallon. King’s Arms celebrates two years with new Market Menu A husband-and-wife team is celebrating their second successful year in business at the popular King’s Arms. And they have celebrated their second anniversary at the Great Stainton gastro pub by launching a new Market Menu. Chef Paul Bussey, who once worked for acclaimed TV chef Gordon Ramsay, left his role as head chef at Acklam Hall in Middlesbrough to take on the King’s Arms in Great Stainton, on the outskirts of Newton Aycliffe, in August 2017. And with his wife Ycheng heading up the team’s front-of-house staff, they have enjoyed a positive two years in business. The King’s Arms now employs 15 staff and is winning rave reviews for its evening meals and weekend lunches. “We’re over the moon with how our first two years have gone and we’d like to thank all our loyal customers who support us,” said 34-year-old Bussey, who has previously worked at Gordon Ramsay’s Ivy restaurant in Dubai as well as the Cleveland Tontine and Acklam Hall. “We support our local suppliers as much as we can by buying local, and local people support us in turn which is brilliant.” New to the Market Menu at the King’s Arms is “Bang Bang” Chicken – a traditional Chinese salad with egg noodles in a Satay dressing – as well as Scottish Salmon and Cod Fish Cake for starters. The main options include Pan Fried Hake, 8oz Rump Steak and Artichoke and Truffle Ravioli, while desserts include Chocolate Brownie, Strawberry Cheesecake or the King’s Arms Eton Mess. Starters and desserts are priced £6 and main courses £14 – or you can have either the two-course option for £17 or three courses for just £20. The Market Menu is available Tuesday- Friday 12-3pm and 5.30-9pm and Saturdays 12-3pm. You can find the King’s Arms on Facebook and Instagram, or to reserve a table call 01740 630873. Miller Homes opens North-East office in Aycliffe M iller Homes is opening a new regional office in Newton Aycliffe to support the company’s strategic regional growth plans. The leading housebuilder will occupy a unit at Aycliffe Business Park which will open in the autumn and be a sister office to its current regional office in North Shields. Mark Bayliss has been promoted from technical director to operations director and will head up the new office. Initially eight local jobs are being created with roles in commercial, sales, land, surveying, construction and technical. The expansion comes off the back of six new development launches in the first half The funding has been secured from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-20. FISH TANK OPENING A multi-million pound family activity centre complete with swimming pool is set to transform a site. The new Fish Tank family centre on Aycliffe Business Park is due to open to the public in November. It has been privately financed by Newton Aycliffe homeowners, Penny and Paul Gordon. The operation will be run from a 56 square metre office alongside a coffee shop – designed to be baby friendly. NEW APPOINTMENT The region’s largest engineering and manufacturing network has appointed a network support manager to work with the team on its continued growth. Kaye Collins has joined the Engineering and Manufacturing Network (EMN) to enhance the support currently offered to companies across the North East. The network, led by a board of industry professionals, now engages with more than 300 organisations including some of the largest businesses within the sectors. AYCLIFFE TODAY BUSINESS The business magazine for Aycliffe Business Park of the year, and combined with further land investment will support the region’s target to grow by 400 homes per annum in the next three years. Space is now being booked for the 42nd issue of Aycliffe Today Business, with half-page advertorials from £250 and full pages £450 (price includes writing and photography). To book space, call 01325 728024 or email [email protected]