GMB fans in tears as Post Office scandal's oldest victim, 91, details being hounded while nursing dying husband

A former sub-postmaster wrongly convicted over the Horizon scandal says he can finally hold his head up high after a court overturned the case today.

Good Morning Britain viewers have been left horrified over their breakfasts, as a plane crash survivor spoke about surviving by eating his deceased friends – but admitted that was not the worst part of his 72-day ordeal. Dr Roberto Canessa, now 71 and a paediatric cardiologist, was one of 16 survivors of a 1972 plane crash that saw Uruguayan Flight 571 veer off course in dense fog on the way to Santiago, Chile, and crash into the snowy Andes mountains.

There are “countless” secret victims of the Post Office’s Horizon scandal in Scotland who “buried” their trauma, a campaigning Scots MP said yesterday.

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs. the Post Office has become the British broadcaster’s biggest new drama in over a decade, beating even the launch of Downton Abbey back in 2010.

Actor Toby Jones has won the nation's hearts while portraying real life hero Alan Bates in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and fans have been left shocked after discovering a rather surprising role he had in the past.Toby, 57, has starred in a number of popular films and TV shows, and has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse, the Harry Potter franchise, and The Hunger Games trilogy. He appeared as Dr.

Everyone in Scotland convicted as part of the Horizon Post Office scandal will be cleared, Humza Yousaf has said.

ITV's new drama series, Mr Bates vs The Post Office has sparked fury across the country as the post office scandal which saw hundreds of postmasters being wrongfully accused of fraud has been brought to light.

The creator of a petition calling for former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE following the Horizon scandal has said it is 'fantastic' that she has lost her honour.

The Post Office tried to play down the potential impact of its dodgy IT system on criminal trials in Scotland, prosecutors have revealed.

Acclaimed Brit actor Toby Jones has been impressing viewers as activist and former sub-postmaster Alan Bates in the series Mr Bates vs the Post Office - and it has emerged that the 57-year-old father of two made a huge sacrifice just to get the show off the ground. Since its release on New Year’s Day, the gripping ITV drama has brought the shocking real-life Post Office scandal back into the spotlight, as well as the real-life people involved, with viewers outraged at the miscarriage of justice which took place, against hundreds of innocent postal workers.

Actors and staff behind an ITV drama about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have been left “proud and overwhelmed by the power our drama has had”.

EXCLUSIVE: With the almost impossible-to-believe Post Office scandal bedecking the front of most UK national newspapers this week, the writer of the ITV smash drama about the saga has said it “tapped into” frustrations with the “politics of the moment.”

The current landscape is making it “increasingly hard” to fund British stories such as the Post Office drama that is currently dominating the news agenda, according to ITV‘s drama boss.

Rishi Sunak has said he would 'strongly support' the Honours Forfeiture Committee if it decided to look at revoking former Post Office boss Paula Vennells' CBE in the wake of the Horizon scandal.

Labour has called for prosecution powers to be stripped from the Post Office and previous convictions looked at again following the Horizon scandal.

A petition asking for the former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to be stripped of her CBE because of the Horizon scandal has now got over one million signatures.

Metropolitan Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” committed during the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.

A petition demanding ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells is stripped of her CBE has soared to nearly 500,000 signatures in recent days.The urgent demand from viewers comes after the ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office focusing on 'the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history' - aired on ITV and ITVX on New Year's Day. The limited series detailed the real life events of 2009, when a group of sub-postmasters formed the Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance, after a defective IT system called Horizon led to a slew of wrongful prosecutions of fraud, theft and false accounting. A petition calling for the former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells to be stripped of her CBE quickly passed 350,000 signatures following the final episode of the ITV1 drama on Thursday night.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) of the UK has issued a statement, following the huge public reaction to the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which aired last week.

Throughout the first week of January, ITV viewers at home have been gripped by fresh new drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which followed the real life journey of several sub-postmasters who were wrongfully accused (and in some cases even charged) with stealing from the Post Office, thanks to a Horizon computer error.The show, which spanned across four nights in total, saw a star studded cast including Toby Jones, Will Mellor and Julie Hesmondhalgh bring the story to life, including their ongoing fight for justice and compensation for the hundreds of people that were still affected by the error. In emotional scenes, fans saw the toll of the scandal with their own eyes, with several of the accused having lost their jobs, their homes and in some cases even having taken their own lives after struggling to cope with the mental toll of being wrongfully blamed for the error.