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The blue plaque on Alan Bates's childhood home—in association with the British Film Institute.. Bates was born at the Queen Mary Nursing Home, Darley Abbey, Derby, England, on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three boys born to Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a housewife and a pianist, and Harold Arthur Bates, an insurance broker and a cellist. [1]
Benedick Bates (born November 1970 [1]) is a British actor. He is the son of actor Sir Alan Bates and actress Victoria Ward and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art .
Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts. After the Post Office terminated his contract in 2003 over a false ...
Alan Bates became a household name after a TV drama shone a spotlight on how he was forced to lead a campaign on behalf of subpostmasters following one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK ...
Mr Bates told the probe he first raised issues with the Horizon system in 2000, and on one day in December of that year, he called the Post Office helpline seven times, with one call lasting ...
Campaigner Sir Alan Bates has said he wants the "real baddies" involved in the Post Office scandal to be held to account. He said "many of us know who the guilty ones are" in relation to the ...
Victoria Ward (actress) (1939–1992), British actress; Vicky Ward (born 1969, as Victoria Penelope Jane Ward), British-American journalist; Vicki Ward (born 1969), Australian politician of Victoria state; Victoria Ward (1846-1935), a champion of Hawai‘i and descended from aliʻi; the namesake of the shopping center Ward Centers
Sir Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for subpostmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, will receive his knighthood at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The 70-year-old, of Llandudno in north ...