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A business a day from the Chronicle

Tony Blair has backed the Newcastle Evening Chronicle’s campaign to create a business every day for a year.

The Newcastle paper has launched the drive to boost the north east economy by highlighting 365 start-ups between now and next January.

The campaign aims to encourage people with the ambition to branch out on their own by pointing them in the right direction and highlighting the spirit of enterprise in the north east.

The paper will help anyone wanting to launch their own firm after teaming up with business start-up organisations to provide vital advice and support.

In a personal piece featured in a supplement to launch the initiative, the Prime Minister said: “I am delighted to give my strong support to the Chronicle’s Create a Business a Day initiative.

“The Chronicle has set itself and its readers a very tough challenge but, knowing the north east, I suspect there will be tremendous support for this initiative from across this community. It certainly shows the Chronicle, yet again, reflecting the real priorities, concerns and ambitions of its readers.

“It is a worthwhile campaign… which highlights the confidence the Chronicle has in its community and its people.”

During the 12 months of the campaign, the Chronicle will feature successful start-ups both in its main paper and weekly Jobs section. The drive will be rounded off with a further supplement listing all the new companies.

Editor Paul Robertson said: “This region has one of the worst unemployment levels in the country and we want to do something which will capture the public’s imagination and encourage people who may not have considered starting their own business to do so.”

Paul ran a similar campaign when editor of the Evening Gazette, Teesside, contributing to more than 400 business start-ups in the area in 2001.

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