The Latest Breaking News from Post Office

The postal company said the ‘major outage’ was not cyber related but did not specify what had caused it

The Government is being urged to stop awarding contracts to the Japanese tech giant.

GMB union follows IWGB in seeking compensation for drivers unable to work

The current level of taxpayer funding for the Government-owned postal service was unsustainable, the Department for Business and Trade said.

Ministers to consider mutualisation as an option in first big review of the organisation in 15 years

The Department for Business and Trade launched a new green paper on Monday alongside a three-month consultation over the organisation’s future.

COMMENT : Before the Horizon IT system was found to be deficient, some victims were financially ruined, some imprisoned – and some took their own lives. Yet in the last year, Fujitsu still picked up more than 20 contracts worth nearly £800m. What sort of ‘justice’ is this, asks James…

COMMENT: An official inquiry has found that the Horizon scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides. Former subpostmistress Seema Misra says she came close to being one of them

Letters: Readers respond to Marina Hyde’s article on the publication of the first volume of the inquiry report on the Horizon scandal

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

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