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Post Office Inquiry – Angela Rides Again
Bogey back for more Hello, My alarm call this morning was only 5.45am as I’d agreed to go into the TalkTV studio to talk about Angela van den Bogerd on their breakfast programme. It’s a half hour walk to the station where I discovered no trains would be running for the foreseeable future. Curses. TalkTV…
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Van den Bogerd starts two days of evidence, Aujard resigns and Vennells resiles
G’mornin’ – early doors in Aldwych I had a 4.30am alarm call this morning so I could be driven to London to spend two minutes on television at 6.30am on BBC1 explaining the significance of Angela van den Bogerd to a breakfast audience. The Hatchet Lady is giving evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT…
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Crichton’s Pity Party is not quite over, Aujard still listed and a Hertfordshire/Essex Weekender beckons
Oh, Susan… Witnesses to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal never fail to disappoint. A defining feature of each existing or former employee is the complete lack of interest in the plight of Subpostmasters. They only seem to care about the business and their own careers. Susan Crichton was the latest in a long line…
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Penny’s Printouts, Crichton to speak and Post Office Tour Rolls On
The Magic Penny What a week! Let’s start with Penny Williams’ revelation. She told me about the printouts in the dressing room shortly before we took the stage in Launceston. I asked her more about them on stage and whilst we drove to Penny’s pie-making facility in Helston to sample some quite wonderful pasties I…
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Post Office Inquiry – the Cook and Crozier show
plus: if it’s Saturday, it must be Crewe Hello there Welcome to another newsletter written using speech-to-text dictation software. Apologies in advance for any errors. I will try to check this thoroughly, but I also want to get it out of the door as soon as possible. Gurney time I had my operation yesterday. Producer…
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Post Office Inquiry – Arbuthnot and Hooper give evidence
The dogged parliamentary campaigner Good morning I made it to the public inquiry yesterday, where I witnessed Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom’s evidence, and caught up with a few former Subpostmasters, lawyers, journalist and ushers who I hadn’t seen in a while. I have started to write up what I can about Lord Arbuthnot’s evidence. I…
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Post Office Inquiry – Bates kicks off (phases 5 & 6)
Cometh the hearing… Hello I hope you’re keeping well. I wanted to be at the Inquiry this morning, sadly I had to go to the fracture clinic at Saint Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey. Nonetheless I listened to Alan Bates’ evidence on the bus home and then watched along in the afternoon with thousands of others…
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Post Office scandal – some personal (injury) news
Best laid plans and all that… Hi everyone This was not the secret email I wanted to send you. I have managed to break my right wrist. It’s going to take a while to heal. I am right-handed. I had hoped to be able to bring you daily reports from the ongoing public inquiry into…
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Post Office scandal – NFSP on ITV News, plus: travelling tales from Oxford, Lyme Regis and Lichfield
Tracking down Thomson Good morning I’m writing to you from the glamorous environs of a Premier Inn hotel room in Lichfield, promising myself a slap-up breakfast when, but only when, I have finished this newsletter. First things first. The actions or inaction of the National Federation of Subpostmasters during the Post Office Horizon scandal has…
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Post Office scandal: the Patels’ story, plus live dates in Oxford, Lyme Regis and Lichfield this weekend
Still standing after everything Hi everyone, I’m really sorry not to have sent a secret email in the last week. I am trying hard to get some pieces across the line for ITV News, whilst putting together the content for the theatre tour, which starts on Saturday in Lyme Regis. If you are anywhere near…
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