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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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Post Office scandal: Select Committee report drops, Read’s £1m salary demands and Jo at the Brits!
Good morning After toying with leaving, and then deciding to stick with my current newsletter editing software for the rest of the year I fell foul of one of its tiny but important quirks. It doesn’t autosave. Between 4.30am and 5.30am this morning I spent an hour crafting what would, I am sure, have been…
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Post Office scandal: PO Board at war, Vennells’ Inquiry dates released and disgraced PO Director of Comms leaves
Staunton: PO CEO is under investigation Hi Hope you’re doing okay. I spent most of the week chugging around the country in my ageing Peugeot 5008 (I call it the Atomic Potato), filming things for ITV News. I was able to catch most of Tuesday’s Business Select Committee evidence (watch it all here, read the…
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Post Office scandal: The Big Announcement, Badenoch vs Staunton, Project Zebra and Anna’s story.
Breaking Badenoch Hi A week is now becoming a very long time in this story. The last newsletter led on sacked Post Office chair Henry Staunton and his extraordinary interview with Oliver Shah in the Sunday Times. Staunton accused the government of asking him to slow down compensation payments, and said the Post Office had…
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Post Office scandal: Former Chair blasts Post Office “toxic” culture, Hollinrake fights back, racist codes investigation reports…
Staunton Spills Hi A huge scoop in the Sunday Times today for Oliver Shah, who secured an interview with the sacked Post Office chairman Henry Staunton. Staunton – if he’s telling the truth – confirms much of what we already know (but from a senior, insider’s position) and he reveals some shocking details. Not least…
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Post Office scandal: Govt approved PO inquiry bonuses, “Public interest” cases granted compensation and…
… Another Conviction Quashed! Well, hello there Last week I was Jeremy Kyle, this week I’m Vanessa. My TalkTV adventures are getting ever stranger. More on that later. First: Another conviction quashed Jacqueline Falcon becomes (by my calculation) the 101st Subpostmaster or Post Office worker to have her conviction overturned. It happened today at the…
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Post Office scandal: Disclosure, Capture, Compensation and a new investigation
plus: Where has all the money gone (again)? Hello! I said I didn’t think I’d be able to get another newsletter away this week, but I had a feeling things were going to stack up if I didn’t, so here goes: There was a parliamentary debate on the Post Office’s management culture on Thursday. I’ve…