"We are backing all businesses across the North-East and North Yorkshire"

That is the message from Newsquest North-East and North Yorkshire’s sales director Ryan Fenwick and editor Hannah Chapman.

In an extremely challenging and unprecedented time, Newsquest North-East and Yorkshire, the publisher of The Northern Echo, Darlington & Stockton Times and the Advertiser series, wants to show its support to the communities it serves by launching a new campaign – “Love Local Business”.

As part of the campaign all businesses are being offered the opportunity to have a free advert in our titles next week to help them spread their “shop local” message to as many customers as possible.