only applies to england and wales and number ten say they are going to work with the devolved administrations in scotland and northern ireland. asked if rishi sunak would consider putting alan bates, one of the sub postmasters who helped expose the scandal up for alana, the prime minister s press secretary said there was a former or formal process for honours but it is hard to think of someone more deserving to be rewarded through the honour system than him. there was a line is we have had from downing street from our correspondent. the timeframe for bringing this law in, downing street say they want to bring it in by the end of the year. a little earlier i spoke to nicky arch who ran the chalford hill post office in gloucester. and was wrongly accused of stealing £24,000. i asked to her tell me what happened. i was running a business, a little shop and the local post office. i had the