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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

In evidence to the Post Office Inquiry, Stephen Bradshaw was confronted with claims of bullying and forced to deny his team acted like 'Mafia gangsters' towards innocent postmasters

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which follows the story of subpostmaster Alan Bates who was accused of theft, highlights Llandudno in Wales where he fought to keep his business

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

Post Office staff who were wrongly caught up in the Post Office IT scandal will receive compensation that Daily Mirror Pride of Britain winner and campaign hero Alan Bates says is not enough

Kate Middleton's former postmaster Hasmukh Shingadia, 63, fought for 10 years to have his wrongful conviction relating to the Horizon IT scandal to be overturned

Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE

Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

Marion Holmes says her husband Peter was “destroyed” when he had to plead guilty to false accounting in order for the police to drop the theft charge in a plea bargain

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail

The ITV new drama series, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, has brought the post office scandal back under the spotlight since its release on New Year's Day, and one person who ensured that the drama made it to the small screen was Toby Jones

Paul Scully, who was Post Office Minister, said the Treasury demanded a value for money exercise was done before agreeing to giving further money to victims including Alan Bates

Alan Bates and his partner Suzanne appeared on This Morning today where they responded to the comments made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about the Post Office scandal and were gifted a holiday by Richard Branson

Letters between Sir Ed Davey, then-Minister for Postal Affairs, and Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster and campaigner, reveal Sir Ed's willingness to believe the Post Office

Paula Vennells has faced renewed calls to give back the CBE this week following the broadcast of ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office - and Metropolitan Police is looking at "potential fraud offences"

Our columnist thinks its corrupt that Paula Vennells, who led the Post Office from 2012-2019 when more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, received a CBE

Former Coronation Street favourite Julie who played Alan Bates’ wife Suzanne, said she had been blown away by the anger generated by the ITV drama

The actor asked how those responsible can live with themselves, adding it was “vile” that ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells got a CBE.

The whistleblower was a vital witness in the court case brought against the Post Office by hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly accused and convicted of theft and fraud in what has become known as the biggest miscarriage of justice the UK has ever seen

Noel Thomas was sentenced to nine months in prison after being wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal currently being highlighted in a new ITV drama - here he tells how it still affects him and his family to this day as their fight for justice continues

It's now emerged that hundreds of former post office workers had been mistakenly accused of stealing, with dozens convicted in court and others jailed

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has led to an avalanche of new signatures on a petition on 38 Degrees to strip ex-Post Office chief of her 2019 CBE award

Tory minister Kevin Hollinrake has conceded that hundreds of payouts in the wake of the Post Office scandal are still yet to be finalised amid fears many of its victims might pass away before being compensated

ITV's latest drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has left viewers in complete shock. But at the heart of the scandal is Alan Bates - one of the victims who is now campaigning for justice