business with new vigour.

The business was sold to a consortium led by Mark William Lambert, a local businessman. The repeal of the taxes on newspapers in 1855, along with the hiring of new journalists and the installation of a new printing press, created an opportunity to expand the newspaper.

On 1 May 1858 the paper was re-launched as the Daily Chronicle and Northern Counties Advertiser. The editor, businessman and social reformer Joseph Cowen, became its sole owner at the end of 1859. He

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