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Campaigner Alan Bates has demanded the Government changes its priority to pay victims of the Post Office scandal compensation as they have been "waiting years"

New legislation to finally clear the names of hundreds of wrongly-convicted postmasters will at last be introduced today after they had their lives ruined by the Horizon scandal

Former sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton along with Mr Bates vs The Post Office star Monica Dolan was a guest at the awards as she was handing out one of the coveted BRIT Awards

Jo Hamilton got a huge round of applause from the crowd when she took to the BRIT Award 2024 stage with the actress who played her in Mr Bates v The Post Office

In a mammoth evidence session in Parliament, MPs grilled former subpostmasters and Post Office bosses about delays to compensation to victims of the Horizon IT scandal

Former subpostmaster Alan Bates voiced his frustration at slow payments to victims as he branded the Post Office a 'dead duck' and suggested it should be sold to Amazon

Former sub-postmaster Alan Bates told MPs that the Post Office will be a 'money pit' for years to come and called for it to be sold following the Horizon scandal

Keir Starmer challenged Rishi Sunak at PMQs to endorse the extraordinary claim Tory frontbencher Kemi Badenoch made about former Post Office boss Henry Staunton

Ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton is locked in a row with Kemi Badenoch over claims he’d been told to stall on compensation for postmasters such as Alan Bates

Liam Byrne, chair of the Commons Business Committee, demanded Post Office bosses and ministers end the blame game and get cheques in the post to victims of the Horizon scandal

Victims of the Horizon IT scandal accused ministers of not matching their words with action as a former Post Office boss claimed he'd been told to delay compensation payments

Henry Staunton, who was chair of the Post Office, claimed a senior civil servant told him to stall on paying compensation to Horizon victims such as ex-postmaster Alan Bates

No one else understands better the trials and pressures a young footballer like Marcus Rashford faces, which is why England icon Paul Gascoigne's advice comes from the heart

Post Office hero Alan Bates has said he will reject an offer of compensation from the government, calling the "around a sixth" offer of what he requested as 'offensive and cruel'

Paula Vennells joined fellow bosses at a staff knees up in 2017, while victims of the Horizon scandal desperately tried to clear their names

A 2021 inquiry heard the children of wrongly convicted subpostmasters were “bullied” and “spat at” in the wake of the scandal. Now Ian Lavery says Fujitsu bosses should set up a 'substantial trust fund' to compensate families of the victims

The Redfield and Wilton survey reveals that the the public is overwhelmingly in favour of Alan Bates getting an honour after he exposed the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

Former Post Office chief Paula Vennells is facing calls to hand back £2.2million in bonuses as her successor admits some money taken from victims may have gone to executives

The company and anybody at the top who failed to report the 'bugs and errors' to the Post Office or colluded in covering them up must, if the errors led to prosecutions, face investigation

Fujitsu Europe director Paul Patterson faced a grilling by MPs on Tuesday alongside Post Office boss Nick Read, as public and political anger continues over the Horizon scandal

Post Office scandal victims Alan Bates and Jo Hamilton were among those who gave evidence to the Commons Business and Trade Committee today on their fight for justice

The Commons Business and Trade Committee was told victims of the Post Office scandal were 'suffering' and 'dying' while waiting for compensation. Here's what we learned from today's evidence

A “long list” of people should face justice in court for trying to cover up the Post Office scandal, a former minister has said as sub-postmasters’ champion Alan Bates said “don’t let them off the hook” as he called for compensation as well

We believe that Alan Bates, who led the fight for justice in the Post Office scandal, should be honoured with a CBE or a knighthood - and 130,000 people have signed our petition

More than 730 people were prosecuted by the Post Office between 2000 and 2014, and had their lives ripped apart as they served time in prison, declared bankruptcy and even lost their lives