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How to watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online or on TV

Here's how you can watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online, ready for when it airs on Monday, September 9.

WhatToWatch · Sep 9, 2024

Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates gets married on Richard Branson’s Necker Island

Sir Alan received a knighthood in June 2024 for campaigning around the Post Office scandal.

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2024

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates marries partner on Richard Branson’s private island

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoon

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

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Shocking badger cull film on BBC will prompt anger like Post Office scandal drama, claims Queen star Brian May

‘Dynamite’ claims come two days after government performed U-turn on election pledge to stop killing native mammal

The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2024

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024

The best TV of 2024 so far, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office to Big Boys

This year we’ve already had dramas that have changed the world, reality TV that’s made us scream at the telly, and romcoms that have made us cry, writes Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2024

‘I read the new scripts and nearly died!’: the return of Sherwood – the drama that gripped a nation

James Graham’s series about a divided former mining town was a genre-defying smash. So where does they go with series two? The writer and stars talk about guns, Keir Starmer and 2022’s most unpredictable plot twist

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2024

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Toxic culture, poor leadership: what Horizon inquiry has told us so far

As latest phase of inquiry concludes – with final stage set to begin in September – we itemise the key takeaways

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2024

Hundreds of Post Office victims to get access to new compensation scheme

About 900 operators with overturned convictions offered fixed settlement of £600,000 or can proceed to full claim

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’, Vince Cable tells inquiry

Former business secretary claims he would have got to grips with Horizon IT scandal if MPs had come to speak to him

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2024

Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

Former postal affairs minister says conduct of some civil servants was ‘Orwellian’ and raises questions of objectivity

The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2024

Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2024

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey apologises to Alan Bates for ‘terse’ refusal to meet

Ex-postal affairs minister admits to inquiry that response was ‘poorly judged’ and says sorry to people who had lives ruined

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2024

Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2024

Ex-Post Office chair expresses ‘sincere regret’ over Horizon scandal

Tim Parker tells inquiry the firm relied too heavily on lawyers and should have shown key report to the board

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2024

Rishi Sunak in live TV grilling over claims Tory candidates bet on election date

Rishi Sunak backed the “full force of the law” being thrown against any Tory figures if they were found to have illegally bet on the election day as the row threatened to inflict another blow on his struggling campaign.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024

Ein Wort für a fear of mentioning the war

Letters: Kriegserwähnungsangst | When nuclear Israel was invaded | Temperature drop | Gwyneth Hughes | George Carnarvon

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2024

A campaigner who took on the UK Post Office joins Tracey Emin, Imelda Staunton on royal honors list

A former post office branch manager who campaigned to expose a vast miscarriage of justice has been given a knighthood by King Charles III

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Evening Standard · Jun 14, 2024

Alan Bates, Tracey Emin and Gordon Brown among those recognised in King's Birthday Honours list

The Crown actress Imelda Staunton and The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci were also recognised

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates knighted in king’s birthday honours

Ex-post office operator recognised for exposing Horizon IT scandal, while Tracey Emin becomes a dame and Gordon Brown a companion of honour

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2024

Alan Bates, Gordon Brown and Tracey Emin lead King’s birthday honours as more than 1,000 recognised

Famous faces among people across UK recognised for outstanding contribution to community and country

The Conversation · Jun 4, 2024

Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaesque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial

Somebody must have laid false information against [him], for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2024

Toby Jones claims Alan Bates turned down Glastonbury offer: ‘He can’t be bought’

British actor said the former subpostmaster he plays in ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ said ‘no thank you’ to opening the famous festival

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024

Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused

Actor, who played campaigner Alan Bates in TV drama, calls Horizon scandal a ‘Hitchcockian nightmare’ at Hay festival

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024

Lib Dems are go! And they’ve already done the joke

Paddleboard on Tuesday, bike on Wednesday – their slogan could be ‘yeah but you’re talking about us, aren’t you?’

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