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Government response to two-year inquiry’s initial findings describes steps such as funding claimants’ legal advice as ‘crucial’ to bring justice

It also called on the Government to look at tailored tax relief for Post Offices.

The Hack is a hotly anticipated phone hacking drama starring David Tennant.

Labor Day—falling this year on Monday, September 1, 2025—marks both a celebration of American workers and the unofficial end of summer. It’s that weekend when...

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

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

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…

Second class deliveries two or three days a week isn’t reform of the postal service

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

The Post Office Horizon Scandal has been reopened, initially taking place between 1999 and 2015. It addressed the plight of wrongfully accused postmasters versus the functionality of a faulty IT system.