Hints and tips:
...“Homes at £1.25mn-£1.4mn are the sweet spot,” says Bates. “The sticking point is above £1.5mn.”...
...Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster, was removed from his post in 2003 after he refused to make up accounting shortfalls he alleged at the time had been generated by the Post Office’s Horizon IT system....
...In his testimony to the public inquiry into the affair, which resumed on Tuesday, former sub-postmaster Alan Bates said: “I hold the officials far more guilty in all of this than politicians.”...
...The writer is a former sub-postmaster and founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance Thanks to the TV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, the Horizon scandal and the plight of hundreds of sub-postmasters...
...Alan Bates was one of the postmasters who tenaciously led that charge but, writing in the FT recently, he argued that a legal challenge would be difficult to mount were a similar situation to arise today...
...UK government officials deterred ministers from engaging with sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon scandal, according to a lead campaigner.Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster, told a public inquiry...
...A supposedly fiscally conservative Democratic senator in a coal-mining state that has twice backed Donald Trump by about 40 points in presidential elections, Manchin was persuaded by a carefully constructed...
...The inquiry will now hear from a roster of witnesses beginning with Alan Bates, the former sub-postmaster turned lead campaigner, who will appear at Aldwych House in London this week....
...In a Financial Times article published on Friday Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster who heads the campaign group Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance, added his voice to concerns that the “essential financing...
...By contrast, the show’s hero, retired sub-postmaster Alan Bates, is shown to be an honest amateur — who chuckles that his fight for justice is “a hobby that got out of hand”....
...Alan Bates, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, previously declined an OBE stating it would be inappropriate while Vennells retained her CBE....
...Bates of the Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance....
...The Horizon scandal has gained renewed attention in recent weeks after an ITV drama about the affair highlighted the campaigning of former sub-postmaster Alan Bates....
...Bates....
...In a 2004 letter to the MP representing accused sub-postmaster Alan Bates — who became a campaigner for those wrongly accused and was the subject of the TV drama that has galvanised public outrage over the...
...Rick Scott, a Republican senator from Florida, has caused much innocent merriment among trade folk with his contention that imported Chinese garlic is a threat to US national security....
...By contrast, of the politicians to hold the role since 2007: Theresa May became prime minister, while Alan Johnson could have become prime minister or Labour leader had he wanted to....
...These included journalists at the BBC, Computer Weekly and Private Eye; an engineer who blew the whistle at Fujitsu; several MPs; and Alan Bates, the sub-postmaster whose determination to get justice is...
...One gagging agreement even inhibited the evidence of a witness in the case of Alan Bates before the High Court....
...Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the swing vote on the IRA, has already criticised the loopholes that the administration created for European and Japanese companies....
...Sam Dastyari, a Labor senator, was forced to resign in 2016 after it emerged that he had publicly called for Australia to respect Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea after accepting a donation from a...
...Wyoming, with a population of less than a million, gets two senators, as does California with almost 40mn residents....
...Still, big financial services deals are going to bring scrutiny, and the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren have already called for regulators to block the merger....
...alan.beattie@ft.com...
...But nevertheless, we saw evidence of Ed Davey turning down a meeting with Alan Bates, the lead campaigner on this issue....
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