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UK Post Office scandal: Indian-origin woman wrongly jailed during pregnancy still awaits justice after 15 years

More than 15 years after she was wrongly jailed while pregnant during the UK’s Post Office Horizon IT scandal, Indian-origin former sub-postmistress Seema Misra is still waiting for full compensation, and says the fight has cost her more than two decades of her life.

The Times of India

Ncuti Gatwa leads star winners at first Speakies awards for audio storytelling

The actor won best performance for BBC drama Gatsby in Harlem at the inaugural British Audio awards, while Nicola Coughlan’s narration of Juno Dawson’s Queen B clinched best sci-fi audiobook

The Guardian - UK

Feminist History for Every Day of the Year by Kate Mosse review – the women who helped change the world

The bestselling author champions female trailblazers in an enjoyable anthology for all ages

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Mr Bates Vs the Post Office star Monica Dolan ‘immensely proud’ of campaigners

Monica Dolan was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

The Independent UK

Actress Monica Dolan ‘immensely proud’ of Post Office campaigners

The actress, who won an Olivier award for her role in All About Eve and a Bafta for Appropriate Adult, was the guest on Desert Island Discs.

Evening Standard

‘We lost so many along the way’: Horizon scandal victims welcome inquiry report

Those falsely accused by Post Office praise findings, but want to see firmer deadlines on compensation

The Guardian - UK

Post Office scandal report ‘shows full scale of horror unleashed on victims’

The report said 59 victims of the scandal contemplated suicide with 10 attempting to take their own lives.

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Subpostmistress ‘vindicated’ by OBE but vows to continue Horizon scandal fight

Jo Hamilton, 68, was falsely prosecuted for a shortfall of £36,000 at her Post Office branch in South Warnborough, Hampshire, in 2006.

Evening Standard

‘Oh my God, she’s been buried!’: Mr Bates star Monica Dolan on Paula Vennells, playing heroes and villains, and why TV is getting more generic

As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor talks about the making of the Post Office scandal drama, the struggle to make new shows, and portraying Rosemary West

The Guardian - UK

Stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominations

Richard Gadd’s semi-autobiographical stalker thriller has eight nominations, with Mr Bates Vs the Post Office and the raunchy bonkbuster Rivals on six apiece

The Guardian - UK

Subpostmaster campaigners hope OBEs will help fight for full and fair redress

Lee Castleton, Seema Misra, Chris Head and Jo Hamilton were all recognised for their services to justice.

Evening Standard

Post Office campaigner peer calls for branches to be expanded with more services

Lord Arbuthnot, who campaigned for wrongly convicted subpostmasters, says the Post Office’s future is about ‘holding communities together’.

Evening Standard

‘I read the new scripts and nearly died!’: the return of Sherwood – the drama that gripped a nation

James Graham’s series about a divided former mining town was a genre-defying smash. So where does they go with series two? The writer and stars talk about guns, Keir Starmer and 2022’s most unpredictable plot twist

The Guardian - UK

Horizon IT scandal investigator tells inquiry Post Office was ‘sabotaging our efforts’

Ian Henderson, looking into possible miscarriages of justice, said he came to believe he was dealing with ‘a cover-up’

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The Independent UK

Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells booed by subpostmasters for saying their cases ‘bored’ her

Former chief executive in 2014 dismissed stories of injustice but tells inquiry she regrets everything she said

The Guardian - UK

Tearful testimony confirms for many how much Post Office’s Vennells knew

There were times during Horizon inquiry when victims of scandal struggled to keep composure as former chief executive pleaded ignorance

The Independent UK

Former Post Office chief Paula Vennells ‘refused to quit £50,000-a-year NHS role’ after Horizon scandal broke

Chair role at Imperial Hospitals Healthcare NHS Trust reportedly paid former Post Office boss £50,000 a year

The Independent UK

Former Post Office boss Vennells ‘heading into corner where there is no way out’, as inquiry showdown looms

Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells is said to believe there was no miscarriage of justice between 1999 and 2015

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The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: What to expect from the next phase of the Post Office inquiry

In today’s newsletter: As Alan Bates prepares to speak on the devastating impact on thousands of former post office operators, we look at where the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal goes from here

The Guardian - UK

Horizon scandal victim uses Brits appearance to urge faster compensation

Jo Hamilton presented a music award alongside Monica Dolan, who portrayed her in Mr Bates vs The Post Office

The Guardian - UK

We’ve all felt like ‘skint little people’ against the system – that’s why the Post Office drama broke our hearts

Faceless computers have replaced vengeful gods, But the rules of Greek tragedy still apply: the powerful can wreak havoc on human lives, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

The Guardian - UK

‘Systemically, seriously wrong’: the 20-year quest to reveal Post Office IT scandal

People behind characters in the ITV drama describe their efforts to highlight Horizon software injustices

Woman & Home

Where is the real Jo Hamilton from Mr Bates vs The Post Office now?

Here's what you need to know about the real Jo Hamilton, the Subpostmistress who was a victim of the Horizon Post Office Scandal

The Independent UK

Former Post Office boss hands back CBE – as she’s urged to give answers over Horizon scandal

Disgraced former chief executive apologises for ‘devastation’ caused – as Rishi Sunak eyes emergency bill to quash all 800 convictions at once

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