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Post Office hero Alan Bates – who has led a 20-year campaign to expose the Horizon computer system scandal – is to receive a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours after previously rejecting an OBE

Alan Bates believes the "blame culture" we're seeing in the Post Office inquiry - including former boss Paula Vennells blaming five other senior members of staff - is distracting from the real issue of compensation from victims

Paula Vennells is giving evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, and so the Mirror has taken a look at her reduced life now, from handing back her CBE to her almost becoming Bishop of London

Paula Vennells will give evidence to the Post Office Inquiry today but one of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, Jo Hamilton, has said the former chief executive has "no way out"

Jo Hamilton, whose story was told in ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office', spoke out ahead of former Post Office boss Paula Vennells' appearance at the Inquiry this week

Former executive Angela van den Bogerd worked alongside ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells and was portrayed by Corrie actress Katherine Kelly in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Former subpostmaster Alan Bates is giving his highly-anticipated testimony to the Inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, which wrecked the lives of hundreds of Post Office workers

As campaigning hero Alan Bates gives evidence to the Post Office inquiry, the Mirror takes a look at the four victims who lost their lives in tragic circumstances after being accused

Alan Bates, who is speaking at the Post Office inquiry today, has led the fight for justice on behalf of the hundreds of wrongly accused postmasters who are still waiting for compensation

Sharon Brown fell into a deep despair when she was falsely accused of stealing £36,000 in the Post Office Horizon scandal, and she almost thought about ending her life until she was confronted with pictures of her kids

Alan Bates, who will give evidence to the Post Office inquiry, said police should prosecute those responsible for the scandal - and bonuses paid to executives should be 'clawed back'

Former Post Office chief Paula Vennells refused to comment when she was asked by Channel 4 if she'd lied to MPs and if there had been a cover up over the Horizon IT scandal

A secret recording obtained by Channel 4 News has suggested that senior Post Office staff were aware that the figures for branch accounts could be changed as long ago as 2013

Campaigner Alan Bates has demanded the Government changes its priority to pay victims of the Post Office scandal compensation as they have been "waiting years"

In a mammoth evidence session in Parliament, MPs grilled former subpostmasters and Post Office bosses about delays to compensation to victims of the Horizon IT scandal

Former sub-postmaster Alan Bates told MPs that the Post Office will be a 'money pit' for years to come and called for it to be sold following the Horizon scandal

Ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton is locked in a row with Kemi Badenoch over claims he’d been told to stall on compensation for postmasters such as Alan Bates

Liam Byrne, chair of the Commons Business Committee, demanded Post Office bosses and ministers end the blame game and get cheques in the post to victims of the Horizon scandal

Victims of the Horizon IT scandal accused ministers of not matching their words with action as a former Post Office boss claimed he'd been told to delay compensation payments

Henry Staunton, who was chair of the Post Office, claimed a senior civil servant told him to stall on paying compensation to Horizon victims such as ex-postmaster Alan Bates

No one else understands better the trials and pressures a young footballer like Marcus Rashford faces, which is why England icon Paul Gascoigne's advice comes from the heart

The Redfield and Wilton survey reveals that the the public is overwhelmingly in favour of Alan Bates getting an honour after he exposed the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

Former Post Office chief Paula Vennells is facing calls to hand back £2.2million in bonuses as her successor admits some money taken from victims may have gone to executives

The company and anybody at the top who failed to report the 'bugs and errors' to the Post Office or colluded in covering them up must, if the errors led to prosecutions, face investigation

Fujitsu Europe director Paul Patterson faced a grilling by MPs on Tuesday alongside Post Office boss Nick Read, as public and political anger continues over the Horizon scandal