The Bristol Post

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Bristol Post

• The Bristol Post is a newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the region of Bristol. It was titled the Bristol Post until April 2012.
• The evening post was established in 1932 by local residents,after an agreement between two national press groups which then owned the two Bristol evening papers. Baron Camrose, owner of the Bristol Times and echo had agreed to close his papers in return for the closure of a local newspaper in Newcastle, this left Bristol with just one paper the evening post, "the paper all Bristol asked for and helped to create.
• The paper was renamed The Bristol Post in 2012 to reflect the fact that the paper had not been published in the evening for some time.
• News Editor, Mike Norton
• The Post is 55p per issue where sold. 
• The 3 red stars are reminders of the papers history. It represents the Morning,afternoon and Sunday copies that were distributed. 
• The Bristol Post has 32,996 circulation, 130,415 daily readers, a Total weekly reach of 259,787 and the website has over 25,000 unique visitors per day.
• A full page advert in the Bristol Post will cost you £2600 in 2010. A super advert offer will cost you £27.99 and a smaller personal advert can cost you £10.99.
• The stories covered are mainly "what's on" featuring weekly events around greater Bristol such as charity runs, raffles, carnivals and theatre.  
• The stereotypical individual that features in the Post are middle aged women and men accompanied by young school children.
• The typical word count of a main article would be 400 words long accompanied by a large photo.

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