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Carol Vorderman sang the praises of ITV Mr Bates vs The Post Offices real-life hero Alan Bates after he snubbed an OBE title.

ITV viewers felt their blood boiling just minutes into watching ITVs Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

‘No one else is having these problems”. That is, essentially, what hard-working British sub-postmasters were told whenever they phoned a trusted IT helpline to report an error in their accounts. It was the beginning of an extraordinary lie. From 1999 onwards, the Horizon computer accounting system, specifically designed to make everyone’s day a whole lot easier, made several hundred sub-postmasters’ lives a living hell.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office made its debut on Monday night and saw actor Toby Jones taking the lead as Alan Bates.

A new series about the Post Office Scandal has left viewers feeling sickened just minutes into its premiere.

The series follows the true story of hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for theft by the Post Office due to a faulty IT system.

The shocking ITV drama series, Mr Bates vs The Post Office follows the true story of mysterious financial losses appearing in village post office tills that led to one of the UK's biggest miscarriage of justice

Workers at the heart of the Post Office scandal featured on ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office have seen their lives deeply affected in the years since, from bankruptcy to imprisonment and justice still to be done

Mr Bates vs The Post Office actor Will Mellor was left fuming after being ignored by his local council 'for years' as he shared a video to his followers explaining 'it could've killed someone'

Alan, who won a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain award last year for his campaign, accused the Post Office of “arrogance and ignorance” in refusing to believe subpostmasters