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Sir Alan settles, Post Office play “Glitch” goes on tour
Some good news for once… He’s won a BAFTA, got a Knighthood and now he’s a millionaire! Congratulations to Sir Alan Bates. This week the government confirmed he had finally reached a settlement. He had to fight hard for it, which is, of course, crazy. What he received is not a matter of record, though…
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Operation Olympos costs, Inquiry report date pushed back
A painfully slow and expensive affair Hi everyone I thought I’d send you an update after a month in which I have been chasing down a number of Post Office and non-Post Office stories for various outlets. Here are some of the Post Office stories: Operation Olympos The police investigation into those who were responsible…
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Books (not just mine), live events and other news
A Very Good Read Hi everyone Hope you had a good summer. I went on holiday to France and spent my days reading Jo Hamilton’s book and working on my own. More on Jo’s book in a moment. I want to begin this email proper by extending the warmest of welcomes to a lot of…
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Sons and daughters of Horizon victims to be compensated
plus: thirteen suspected suicides There’s no feeling of anything but bleakness, writing the headline above. Here’s the full story. The Inquiry asked the question and the Post Office gave its best guess, based on the applications it had received from the families of deceased compensation claimants and its own media monitoring. Thirteen dead, at their…
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“Final” compensation report due tomorrow
Back to the Oval in July Hello Tomorrow will be a big media day in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. “Volume One” of the Inquiry report is being released at noon at The Oval cricket ground in South London. The Oval hosted a number of Human Impact hearings in 2022 before the inquiry moved…
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Inquiry report Volume 1 to drop on 8 July
Hello The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry has today announced that the first part of Sir Wyn Williams’ report will be published at high noon on Tuesday 8 July. Volume 1 of Sir Wyn’s report focuses on Compensation and Human Impact. Whilst I suspect it will not tell us anything new (we know the Post…
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Inquiry to report on compensation and human impact within the next three months
Plus: from the BAFTAs to BGT Hello! As I write (Sunday morning) the Hear Our Voice Subpostmasters choir are in rehearsal at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, preparing to sing live to the nation on tonight’s Britain’s Got Talent, which starts at 7pm tonight on ITV1. There are eight acts to get through and the…
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Mr Bates wins a BAFTA and Central London Book Festival event this Friday
Sir Alan goes to the BAFTAs Hello! First of all congratulations to everyone involved in Mr Bates once more. The series won big at the BAFTAs last night, and it was quite a sight to see Sir Alan in his best bib and tucker doing the red carpet rounds. Alan also did a sit down…
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Dumfries this Saturday… a book (festival) special newsletter
Come to Dumfries, the water’s lovely… Hello everyone I am trying not to go out much, but there are a couple of events I felt I could not turn down, and the first is happening next weekend. If you know anyone in Ayrshire, Glasgow or the North West of England, please do let them know…
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New episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Great Post Office Trial broadcast today!
Hi everyone, After what feels like two months of hard work I am delighted to tell you that Episode 18 of The Great Post Office Trial goes out on BBC Radio 4 at 8pm today (Tuesday). It’s a 45 minute one-off episode. Once it has been broadcast it will go up on BBC Sounds here.…
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