DIGBY Jones has set himself a gruelling schedule when he visits Worcester tomorrow.

Not only is the Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) due to launch printing company GoodmanBaylis - as reported in the Evening News yesterday - but he is also booked to attend a breakfast meeting, as well as the Worcestershire Law Society Annual Dinner in the evening.

Mr Jones, fresh from the CBI's annual conference in Birmingham at the start of this week, will start his day in the Faithful City with a business breakfast at Worcester Rugby Club, Sixways, organised by the Central Worcestershire & The Vale Conservative Business Breakfast Club.

Mr Jones, who will join about 100 businessmen and women at the breakfast, has been personally invited to speak at the meeting by Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff.

"Peter Luff has a reputation for attaching great importance to keeping in touch with the views of the business community," said a spokesman.

"He also takes the view that local business people who support the Conservative party, or who have sympathy with its objectives, are given the opportunity to comment on issues that matter to them. And also to learn at first hand how party policy is developing.

"That is why the Business Breakfast Club - which meets three times a year - was founded, and its popularity is growing with each meeting."

Mr Jones is also due to address the Worcestershire Law Society Annual Dinner, due to be held at the Pear Tree Hotel, Smite, near Worcester, tomorrow evening.

Legal top brass

The "top brass" of Worcestershire's law community will be at the dinner and are looking forward to hearing what Mr Jones has to say, according to Penny Raby, the society's president.

Born in Birmingham, Mr Jones attended Bromsgrove School and gained a law degree from University College, London.

He started at corporate law firm Edge & Ellison in 1978 where he became senior partner in 1995.

He joined KPMG as vice-chairman of corporate finance in 1998, and became director general of the CBI in January 2000.

Since then, he has travelled to more than 40 countries promoting the interests of British business and regularly appears on TV and radio, and in the Press, promoting wealth and job creation in the UK.