Former sub-postmaster Alan Bates has received a knighthood from the King. The 70-year-old is the leading campaigner for sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It was a great honour meeting Princess Anne, I mean she seemed quite up to speed with a lot of
00:06what's been going on here and can understand the frustrations we're still going through with the
00:11bureaucracy and all of this. But for you personally, what did it mean?
00:16Well, I've accepted the honour and very gratefully so, but not just for myself,
00:24it's for the whole group in there and for all those that suffered along the way. And as I
00:28keep saying to people, you know, if it gives me another stick to beat the others over the head
00:33to try and get this thing resolved, so be it, I will use it. We've been a group right from the
00:38outset in this and it's not really been about me, I know it just seems a bit different these days,
00:45but it's been about the group and it always has been about the group.
00:50It's the group that are suffering in there, we've got to see a resolution for them.