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Former sub-postmaster Alan Bates says he is “very pleased” about politicians suddenly rushing to find solutions to accounting software convictions after the airing of an ITV drama about the scandal. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 I'm pleased, I'm pleased this has actually achieved something.
00:04 I mean it's a good drama, it's great.
00:06 I mean the actors were great in it and they certainly got over the human suffering and
00:10 misery inflicted on them by this major corporation.
00:15 So yeah, I'm very pleased with it.
00:17 First thing and the priority is to get money that's owed to the actual victims, the original
00:24 500 people.
00:26 They've got to get that sorted, it's been going on for far too long.
00:30 We've lost 50 or 60 of them along the way, 70 in fact, thinking back.
00:36 I mean it's diabolical all of this, it has to be resolved.
00:42 I mean I was offered an OBE and I refused it on the grounds that she had a CBE.
00:47 I mean she had a CBE for services to post office.
00:51 Someone has to explain to me what service has she done the post office really?
00:56 And who actually thought it was a good idea to give her a CBE?
01:01 The prosecutions, whether or not that actually takes cases down to others to decide, but
01:06 I know they are starting to look at it and it certainly needs to happen in the cases
01:10 of the real guilty.

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