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2023
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Learn about Shakespeare, get some exercise and raise money for Subpostmasters in need – in just two hours
Thursday 14 September – 6pm – London EC1 Would you like to walk round Shakespeare’s London, in the company of a quite superb and knowledgeable guide? Are you free at 6pm on Thursday 14 September? Can you get to EC1? If so, Ian Fagelson, Anne Page and Jane Anderson (all pictured in the photo above)…
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August Post Office scandal round-up
Quite a lot to tell you about… Hi all Hope you had a good summer. I never thought I might be a guest on Jeremy Kyle. There were no DNA tests, and everyone involved seemed to get on quite well. He’s changed. Jeremy now hosts a current affairs show on Talk TV, and I was…
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Ed Henry KC: “You couldn’t contrive a more ridiculous state of affairs”
Ed Henry on the disclosure debacle, latest from the Inquiry, the Police being Terrible, more CCRC referrals and one strange tale from the archives… Hi everyone The gentleman pictured on the right is Ed Henry KC, who represents a number of Subpostmasters at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. I interviewed Ed for the Sunday…
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Lord Arbuthnot: “I feel we are heading in the right direction”
and the podcast is back! Hi there As promised, I have two new pieces of content for you. The first is a short Q&A with Lord (James) Arbuthnot covering where we are now and what he wants to see from the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. As well as campaigning for…
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Sir Wyn delivers Interim Report on compensation
and a parliamentary call for Read’s sacking Hi everyone It’s been a busy few days involving quite a bit of work and travel, so forgive me for not posting this until now. I got a call yesterday asking if I’d go to Salford to sit on the BBC Breakfast sofa with former Subpostmaster Lee Castleton…
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Inquiry thrown into chaos by Post Office disclosure failures
Plus – Flinders on Fire and full Nick Read iv Last night, those of us looking forward to seeing the Post Office Inquiry get underway this week were surprised to see an email from the Inquiry drop in our inboxes. It told us that due to the Post Office’s failure to disclose documents in good…
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Gareth Jenkins’ evidence delayed again
Plus – a fisking of the Burton report Hello Yesterday was primed to be interesting. Gareth Jenkins was due to give evidence day at the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal. Jenkins was the Chief Horizon Architect and has been around since the system was designed and rolled out. He was an expert…
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Nick Read and Post Office minister accept compensation settlements could be reopened
Plus – thanks Good evening, I started writing out thanks by name to everyone who contributed to Episode 12 of The Great Post Office Trial and quite soon realised that if I did, this email would take about half an hour to read. Could I instead, therefore, just express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who…
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Well aren’t you a generous bunch?!
Noel’s campaign is nearly there Morning all, Thanks to everyone who put their hands into their pockets to help Noel get his book translated and hopefully read by a wider audience. When I sent yesterday’s newsletter the total raised was £815. Right now it stands at £5,929!! Both Sian, who is running the crowdfunding campaign,…
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Noel Thomas needs your help
Help Noel translate his book into English Good morning, Thanks to everyone who responded to my last secret email with questions for Nick Read. I put the same request out on twitter and ended up with dozens of questions which I had to concatenate into a number of hybrids. I spent a good half hour…