
Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells has handed back her CBE, as a petition for her to be stripped of the title exceeds a million signatures.
Vennells was at the forefront of the Post Office scandal, heading the organisation during the time it encountered issues with its Horizon IT system, which lead to significant shortfalls in revenue at over 70 branches. The software defects were strongly denied, which subsequently led to hundreds of sub postmasters being wrongly prosecuted.