Page 4 - Mr Bates News Today

In Colwyn Bay, amid the sweeping splendour of the North Wales coast, Suzanne Sercombe and Alan Bates are allowing themselves to dream of moving on.

Now we know where power lies. In the unsuspecting hands of a middle-aged character actor from Hammersmith. Toby Jones’s quiet, sympathetic portrayal of one-time sub-postmaster Alan Bates has gripped the hearts of the nation and seen PM Rishi Sunak leap from his Peloton – not pausing even to rate his online cycling instructor Cody Rigsby – and dash to the Cabinet room to rally the troops to the moment’s most pressing and populist agenda.

A TV drama about a British scandal in which hundreds of people were wrongly convicted of theft, destroying their lives, has had an astonishing impact.

Infected blood victims are questioning why they are not getting the same coverage as the Post Office scandal, a lawyer has said.

The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines over recent days.

A Post Office executive portrayed as hounding the widow of a postmaster who took his own life has insisted she is not how she was depicted in the ITV drama.

Fenny Compton village played a "significant role" in the Post Office's Horizon scandal, locals say.

The story of the miscarriage of justice committed against innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses has left the nation glued to its television screens and reignited intense debate surrounding the Post Office scandal.

Show has prompted public debate and political change regarding handling of the 1999 Post Office Horizon scandal

Rishi Sunak has joined the growing clamour for Alan Bates, the crusading former sub-postmaster, to be handed a knighthood for exposing the Horizon scandal.