The Post Office Scandal

The story of some of the hundreds of Post Office employees in towns and villages across the country whose lives were utterly devastated by false accusations of losing or stealing money, when in reality, a computer system could have been to blame.

A documentary revealing how TV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office affected the lives of subpostmasters has been commissioned by ITV. The film, which has a working title of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office: The Impact, will provide an insight into the ongoing struggle for justice as those hit by the Horizon scandal seek financial redress. More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system made it appear as though money was missing at their branches.

A documentary revealing how TV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office affected the lives of subpostmasters has been commissioned by ITV. The film, which has a working title of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office: The Impact, will provide an insight into the ongoing struggle for justice as those hit by the Horizon scandal seek financial redress. More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system made it appear as though money was missing at their branches.

As the Post Office scandal continues to make the headlines, Panorama investigates the UK’s other great postal institution, Royal Mail. Millions of us rely on letters for hospital appointments, tax returns and legal documents, but as reporter Zoe Conway discovers, Royal Mail is not always delivering.

In the wake of the Post Office scandal, an injustice that's been described by the government as 'on another level', BBC Wales investigates the infected blood scandal. Wyre Davies exposes the role of drugs companies, politicians and doctors, and asks: how did 3,000 people lose their lives to deadly diseases in blood?