Today's full election picture
After the overnight team's effort, the 7am crew came into all copy, counts and pictures ready to place this morning. I'd commissioned a special colour cartoon from our own Colin Whittock... and here it is:
He sums up the entire national story with his clever mind in ink. After 40 years of gags, it never fails to surprise me how Colin still comes up with such readable and ironic detail.
'Labour's night of misery' is today's front page, with more coverage of Birmingham on pages 4, 5 and 6.... and the full run of election counts, Black Country reports and other district results on pages 23 to 26.
For the Black Country Mail edition, we are this second in the process of switching pages 5 and 6 for pages 24 and 25, to make sure readers get the detail from their area in the first few pages. A changed front page also reflects that Labour held onto Sandwell.
Once again I'm proud of how the Mail team's efforts will see today's paper carrying the first full results for the whole circulation area. It's crucial that local newspapers cover local politics fully.
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Steve Dyson - Blog from the Editor on recent issues and events.
Whittock and his like are real stars and I think the Mail readers are lucky that its paper still has a dedicated cartoonist. I particulary like - and collect - his political gags! Well done with the election coverage. However, it would have been nice if you repeated the early results with the catch up today so I could have kept them in all one edition. Possible idea for next year>??