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Post Office hero Alan Bates ‘shocked’ to receive knighthood from King Charles - year after rejecting OBE
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A bit of a surprise, a bit of a shock, but so be it.
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A bit of a surprise, a bit of a shock, but so be it.
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It was offered the OBE, as a lot of people know, last year,
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but it was wrong, I felt, to accept it at that time.
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Paula Van Ells had her CBE, then for services for post office,
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and I felt it would have been such an insult to the group
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to have taken something at that time.
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But we're a lot further forward with everything now.
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