Justin Welby: church should have asked more questions about ex-Post Office boss Archbishop says C of E failed to challenge involvement of Paula Vennells’ in church bodies in light of Horizon scandal The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024
The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office: a symptom of chronic shallowness Editorial: If the government had cared as much about Horizon victims as the business secretary claims, she would not be in a row about delayed compensation The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024
Fired Post Office chief escalates Horizon scandal compensation row as he hits back at Badenoch with ‘memo’ Henry Staunton’s note of a conversation with senior civil servant was reported to say he had been advised to ‘hobble’ into the election and not to ‘rip off the band aid’ in terms of Post Office finances Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024
Badenoch v Staunton: a public mudslinging over the Post Office A look at the origins of the confrontation between the business secretary and the former Post Office chair, and what is at stake The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Harrowing video of suffering of sub-postmasters victim of Horizon IT scandal published by public inquiry The move came as MPs are probing whether a top civil servant gave a ‘go-slow order’ on pay-outs Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2024
MPs demand to see ex-Post Office chair’s note over Horizon payouts Henry Staunton has accused government of wanting to stall compensation payments to victims until after election The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday briefing: Is Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya now his political heir? In today’s newsletter: After the Russian opposition activist’s death in a penal colony, his wife declares her intention of continuing his work. Can she, or anyone else, fill the void? The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Kemi Badenoch accuses Post Office chair she sacked of seeking revenge Business minister criticises Henry Staunton after he claimed the government wanted to stall payouts to scandal victims The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024
On Horizon, the truth is an insult to the ever-outraged Kemi Badenoch The business secretary is a passionate defender of free speech – apart from any criticism of her The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024
Ministers deny claims government wanted to stall Post Office Horizon scandal payouts Former Post Office chair claimed request was made so government could ‘limp into’ the next election The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024
'I went nuts trying to find missing £1,000 in Post Office system - now I'll get my life back' Jacqueline Falcon, 42, was yet another victim of the Horizon accounting system which wrongly indicated £1,000 was missing from her till. Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024
Fujitsu bosses have been paid £37m since it won Post Office contract Spotlight turns on seven executives who presided over Horizon contract that led to huge miscarriage of justice The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
‘Constructive’ talks held over transfer of Post Office ownership to operators Minister met union officials and representatives from co-operative movement to discuss mutualisation The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2024
‘Turned our lives upside down’: the day the Post Office investigators came Teju Adedayo says she was pressured into confessing to Horizon IT errors, and she has lived under the shadow of it ever since The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024 Post Office inquiry has heard ‘chorus of cowards’, lawyers say Victims’ lawyers call for witness statements heard at inquiry to be start of a ‘rigorous criminal investigation’
The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024 Post Office scandal: key points from the latest court hearings What we learned from the inquiry into the prosecutions of post office operators because of a faulty accounting system
The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024 Horizon scandal: Ed Davey sorry he ‘did not see through Post Office lies’ Lib Dem leader, who was business minister from 2010 to 2012, apologises for first time over his role in scandal
The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024 Post Office scandal: prosecutor was ‘never told of Horizon IT problems’ Northern Ireland lawyer Kevin Shiels said material not shown was ‘very relevant’ to decision to prosecute
The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024 Beleaguered Rishi Sunak on a wing and a prayer – and now a fasting regime PM battling to salvage his party from predicted electoral obliteration but Tories carry on plumbing the depths
Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024 ‘Difficulties’ in Post Office governance led me to sack chairman, says Badenoch The Business Secretary would not be drawn on whether there will be other departures from the board of directors
Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2024 Post Office chairman steps down amid 'tensions with government' in wake of Horizon IT scandal Insiders reportedly said Henry Staunton's departure is not directly linked to the scandal
The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024 Post Office chair dismissed as business reels from Horizon IT scandal Business secretary Kemi Badenoch tells Henry Staunton he is to be replaced, feeling ‘a need for new leadership’
The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024 No 10 ‘taking seriously’ reports that Horizon files show Post Office cover-up BBC says government aware of alleged Post Office plan in 2014 to sack forensic accountants who flagged bugs in IT system
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024 Horizon scandal: wrongly convicted post office operator died from fall Lynette Hutchings fell at home and died last year after brain cancer diagnosis, inquest hears
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024 Horizon scandal: post office operator cleared after years of suffering in silence Court quashes Kathleen Crane’s conviction, adding that she was ‘kept in ignorance’ of IT system’s defects