Saturday special from Bristol captures election night drama

The Bristol Post made a one-week-only return to newsagents on a Saturday to mark the General Election.

The Post, which ceased publishing a Saturday edition back in 2012, hit the streets on Saturday after what turned out to be a dramatic night for MPs in the region.

Bristol witnessed one of the few Labour defeats of the General Election, with Thangam Debbonaire, the shadow culture secretary, losing her Bristol Central seat to the Green Party’s co-leader Carla Denyer.

Further afield, the paper also reported on Tory grandee Jacob Rees-Mogg losing his Somerset seat — one of many Conservative ‘big beasts’ to fall as Labour swept to power.

The Post has made something of an election tradition of publishing special Saturday editions after a count.