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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.

Post Office investigators were offered cash bonuses for every sub-postmaster convicted during the Horizon scandal, it has emerged.

SIR – I can think of nothing in my 67 years that makes me more ashamed to be British than the scandalous behaviour of the Post Office in the Horizon fiasco (Letters, January 8). What makes me most ashamed is that it has taken a television dramatisation, ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, to spur our self-satisfied and self-protecting establishment into taking action. Nigel Cowan Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The Post Office scandal has all the character of an Ealing comedy, except that it is a tragedy. Like Passport to Pimlico or The Titfield Thunderbolt, it is a heart-warming story of recognisable British types combining to fight unaccountable power.

Gwyneth Hughes spent three years developing the four-part drama series about the biggest miscarriage of justice in Britain’s history