Newton News

Newton News - Your Local Community Newspaper

The Newton News is your local community newspaper covering all the local issues from sports clubs, organisations, charities, Schools and Businesses. We keep our newspaper reader friendly by covering only local issues and events, if a story does not involve a business or resident of Newton Aycliffe we do not publish. Newton News add to the local public debates by publishing your letters of concern or opinions. You can also acknowledge the good things our town has to offer and we always support any issues which would benefit the town or an individual.

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History of Newton News

"Newton News" and its predecessor "The Newtonian" have been an important means of communication in Newton Aycliffe for over 60 years. The new town residents were receiving free news sheets in the late 1940's. A Residents Committee published the "Newtonian" monthly, selling advertising space to cover print costs and organised free distribution to each new house as it became occupied. Newton Press started busines as the town's printers in August 1963 and later took over the printing of "The Newtonian" changing to newspaper format; running the publication on a commercial basis, yet continuing to deliver copies free of charge to each household. In 1969 "Newton News" evolved and was distributed to a now much enlarged population by-weekly. The publication became a "weekly" in 1984 with a circulation of 13,000, serving the new town and surrounding villages. "The Newtonian" now incoporated with the "Newton News", claims to be the first FREE newspaper, distributed to each home and financed entirely from advertising revenue in the UK.

Newton News is a 16 page (average) tabloid size newspaper printed in full colour throughout. The publication is published weekly on a Friday and runs a strict deadline for copy of 5pm on the Wednesday preceding the Friday publication. Newton News currently distributes to 15,500 homes and businesses in Newton Aycliffe, Heighington, School Aycliffe, Middridge, Aycliffe Village, Redworth, Woodham Village, Brafferton and Aycliffe Business Park - with an estimated readership of 48,000.

The Newton News is printed using a web offset process which uses recycled paper or paper from sustainable sources. The process also uses environmentally friendly inks; no chemicals are used at Newton Press print works on Aycliffe Business Park.