Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist for regional news and current affairs programming for STV.
[2] Ponsonby joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as a young man, and upon leaving university was briefly employed as a researcher for the former MP Dr Dickson Mabon.
In 2002, Ponsonby was arrested for drunk driving and convicted of being over three times the legal drink limit.
[13] The Prime Minister's office refused to allow Ponsonby to interview David Cameron on STV about the Scottish independence referendum.
He took up the newly created role of Special Correspondent, whilst continuing to lead STV's election results coverage.