Mr Bates V's the Post Office

[Forest Green Bluebird]

The Daily Mail has been running with this story for at least 8 years, often headlining it. It's criminal that no-one on Govt. has even bothered to redress the wrongs - until a TV programme brings it to the national conscience..

I wonder if libel claims can be made against newspapers that ran with "sub-postmistress stole money from pensioners".

“We were ostracised in Bridlington," he told Times Radio recently. "We were abused in the streets. Our daughter was bullied. She was on the school bus and spat on by a young boy because [they thought] her father was a thief, and he’d take money from old people.”