Former sub-postmistress receives OBE

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Jo Hamilton, campaigner and former sub-postmistress, is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. Mrs Hamilton, who was played by Monica Dolan in the drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, said being honoured for services to justice by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace on Thursday was “wonderful”.   Report by Gluszczykm. 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's wonderful. I mean, the building's lovely. Princess Anne was lovely. So yeah, I feel very

00:05honoured. I'm aware she knew everything about the story. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it's the

00:11passage of time, I think. It's so many years. It was 22 years that it started going wrong and you

00:18shouldn't still be fighting, you know. And I think that's what we discussed, how long and what a

00:25journey it had been, you know. And it's not over because 138 of the group, including Sir

00:31Alan, still haven't been paid.

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