All news on the topic: Mr Bates vs The Post Office

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Post Office scandal victim slams government for failing to pay out at BRITs
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
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Post Office campaigner sends brutal reply to Government invite to garden party
Jo Hamilton, whose story was told in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, furiously declined to party with those who have 'prolonged such hardship' among postmasters
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9 things we learned as Alan Bates and Post Office bosses were grilled by MPs
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
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Post Office hero Alan Bates calls on ministers to 'get on and pay' victims
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
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Paula Vennells now - stripped CBE, top NHS job and 'exit from church'
Paula Vennells, former head of the Post Office, received a CBE in 2019, however she faced angered calls for the honour to be stripped following the harrowing Mr Bates vs The Post Office drama on ITV
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Top official in Post Office row breaks silence on compensation delay claims
Senior civil servant Sarah Munby was claimed to have told ex-Post Office chief Henry Staunton not to focus on "long-term issues" and ordered him to "hobble" into election
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Rishi Sunak refuses to repeat Kemi Badenoch claim ex-Post Office chief is lying
Keir Starmer challenged Rishi Sunak at PMQs to endorse the extraordinary claim Tory frontbencher Kemi Badenoch made about former Post Office boss Henry Staunton
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Tories told to compensate Alan Bates and Post Office victims instead of fighting
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
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Postmasters demand Tories are punished at ballot box for compensation delays
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
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Ex-Post Office boss claims he was told to stall on compensation until election
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
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Will Mellor was hours away from quitting acting before landing Mr Bates role
Will Mellor won huge praise for his performance in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office earlier this year, but the former Coronation Street star was very close to quitting acting before landing the ITV role
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Paula Vennells called to Post Office inquiry as investigators branded 'liars'
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was forced to hand back her CBE after more than a million people signed a petition demanding she was stripped of the award
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Will Mellor close to tears as he reunited with Post Office victim live on TV
ITV Mr Bates vs The Post Office actor Will Mellor had an emotional reunion with the real-life victim he played, Lee Castleton, on Friday's episode of Good Morning Britain
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Stage play to build on success of hit ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Mr Bates vs The Post Office aired on ITV earlier this month and led to major public outcry, and forced former chief executive Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE
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Post Office scandal victim ordered to repay £18,000 weeps as she's cleared
Former Post Office worker Kathleen Crane, 68, wept in court as a wrongful conviction which saw her forced to pay back £18,000 under the Horizon IT scandal was finally quashed
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Post Office investigator claims Horizon victim who died 'broken man' was guilty
Raymond Grant said he still believes postmaster William Quarm stole cash from his branch in North Uist, Scotland - despite his wrongful conviction being overturned
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Fujitsu boss dubbed postmaster 'nasty chap' who wants 'to rubbish' firm in email
Fujitsu manager Peter Sewell made the remarks about subpostmaster Lee Castleton in a 2006 email ahead of his legal case with the Post Office over apparent shortfalls
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Rishi Sunak won't stop giving Fujitsu taxpayer cash despite Post Office scandal
The PM is refusing to ban Fujitsu from getting Government contracts despite the firm admitting it knew about faults in its Horizon system that led to postmasters being wrongly prosecuted
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Wrongly convicted former sub-postmaster lost nearly £3m in Post Office scandal
Sami Sabet, 68, says he lost almost £3million and was diagnosed with PTSD after he was wrongly convicted of stealing from post offices under the Horizon scandal
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Post Office boss admits fat cats may have got money taken from scandal victims
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
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'Britain needs a spring clean - but is anyone up to the job'
Lies, spin and failure have combined to make the Tory government's last year of power foul in every way, says Fleet Street Fox. But does Labour have what it takes to clean up the stinking mess they've made of Britain?
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'Mr Bates v The Post Office triggered public rage - and it cannot end here'
Public rage was triggered by a TV drama about the PO injustices, but this mood has been bubbling under for quite a while
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Expert shares what went wrong with Post Office system that destroyed lives
A cybersecurity expert has shed some light on what exactly went so catastrophically wrong with the Horizon computing system, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of sub-postmasters
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Post Office Horizon scandal could see Fujitsu forced to repay 'fortune'
The Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said that if Fujitsu is found culpable the Government would want to “secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer”
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Over 90,000 sign our petition demanding honour for Post Office hero Alan Bates
Downing Street has signalled that Alan Bates could get a knighthood after thousands joined our call for the former postmaster who exposed the Horizon scandal to be honoured