MYSTERIOUS: Alan bates - What They Never Told You

Julie Hesmondhalgh found motherhood ‘a struggle’ and has a lot of regrets

The 56-year-old, who appeared on the recent series of Celebrity Traitors, is best known for playing Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street.

Evening Standard · Oct 21

All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea review – stirring portrait of fishers driven to eco-activism

With catches down 80%, dead crabs and lobsters washed up on beaches and officials denying any responsibility, Hartlepool seafarers have taken a stand

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20

‘The whistling on the theme tune? That’s Dickie Attenborough!’ Hayley Mills on Whistle Down the Wind

‘I’d just made two films in America. Shooting on a Lancashire farm was very different. There was mud everywhere – and we’d be eating dripping, jam butties and fried eggs in buns’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31

Patricia Greene obituary

Actor who played Jill Archer for 68 years on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12

‘Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office operators

Government should not be involved in providing redress to victims of Horizon IT scandal, campaigner tells MPs

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1

Windrush compensation scheme needs significant overhaul, MPs told

Victims should be given legal support to help slash number of claimants denied payouts, says Windrush commissioner

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1

Home Office could face hundreds of claims over asylum families in single rooms

Judge in case of two families housed for years in single hotel rooms says they should have been moved within three months

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20

Post Office IT scandal campaigner to reveal restoration on Car SOS to victim

The campaigner will join the Channel 4 series, fronted by Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend, to reveal a bike restoration to a former subpostmaster.

Evening Standard · Mar 24

Family speaks out after Minnesota woman dies on flight from Minneapolis to London

Rachel Green, 44, had an undiagnosed heart condition, investigators reportedly found

The Independent UK · Jan 27

Sir Alan Bates says ‘baddies seem to be hiding’ in Horizon scandal

Around 1,000 people were wrongly prosecuted and convicted throughout the UK between 1999 and 2015.

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2025