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Paula Vennells: key disclosures from first day at Post Office Horizon inquiry

Former chief executive says she was ‘too trusting’ of subordinates and was advised to deny Fujitsu had remote access to terminals

The Guardian - UK

Subpostmistress who ‘paid back’ £70,000 to Post Office says they accused her children of stealing

The Post Office accused a subpostmistress’s teenagers of breaking into to a branch safe

The Independent UK

Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

The former head of Britain’s Post Office Paula Vennells has broken down in tears on several occasions while giving evidence to an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system

The Independent UK

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Paula Vennells breaks down as she tells Post Office inquiry she was misled

Ex-chief executive tells inquiry into Horizon scandal she had been unaware people were being wrongly prosecuted

The Guardian - UK

Paula Vennells accused of asking team to ‘dig into’ dead man’s records

The former Post Office chief was quizzed about an email she sent after Martin Griffiths’ suicide attempt suggesting she had heard about ‘previous mental health and family issues’

The Independent UK

‘I have no sense there was any conspiracy at all’, Paula Vennells tells Post Office Horizon inquiry – live

Former chief executive of the Post Office tells the inquiry she does not think there was a conspiracy but that mistakes were made

The Guardian - UK

Emergency bill to exonerate Scottish Post Office scandal victims passes first hurdle

A bill introducing emergency legislation to exonerate subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal has passed its first stage...

The National (Scotland)

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Paula Vennells: When does she give evidence and what key questions must ex-Post Office boss answer?

Paula Vennells’ testimony will be closely watched by victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal

The Independent UK

Paula Vennells: key questions the ex-Post Office boss must answer

Former chief executive is to give evidence at inquiry into Horizon IT scandal this week

The Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

Trust in Post Office plummets following outrage over Horizon scandal

Exclusive: Post Office at risk of losing a third of its over-50 customer base, Savanta polling suggests

The Independent UK

Post Office stripped of specialist crime reporting status in Scotland

POST Office Ltd has had its status as a specialist reporting agency stripped by the Lord Advocate following its "fundamental and sustained…

The National (Scotland)

Post Office deceived barrister reviewing Horizon conviction, inquiry hears

Simon Clarke, who advised postal firm to stop prosecutions decade ago, says key document was ‘deliberately withheld’ from him

The Guardian - UK

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Mandelson firm worked for campaign critics say would hinder Post Office-style lawsuits

Exclusive: Litigation such as that spearheaded by Alan Bates could become harder if advice from senior figure at Labour peer’s Global Counsel given effect

WhatToWatch

Casualty fans are ALL saying the same thing about this 'slimy' character

Casualty viewers are united in their dislike of Patrick since the latest scenes aired

The Guardian - UK

Post Office investigators saw Horizon victims as ‘enemies’, inquiry told

Senior company lawyer agrees that 2013 draft report shows ‘needless adversarialism’ by Post Office team

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Camelot boss Nigel Railton named as new Post Office chair

Interim role will include overseeing compensation payments as result of Horizon IT scandal

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The Guardian - UK

UK and US manufacturing sectors shrink as new orders fall and prices rise – as it happened

The UK’s manufacturing sector suffered a fresh downturn last month as disruption to shipments in the Red Sea hit firms

WhatToWatch

Mr Bates vs The Post Office lost ITV £1million despite being the biggest show in a decade — here's why

ITV has revealed that its groundbreaking drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has failed to break even.

Evening Standard

Ex-Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd refuses to apologise for role in Horizon IT scandal

Angela van den Bogerd faces two days of questioning over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

The Guardian - UK

Post Office boss ‘obsessed with his pay’, claims former HR director

Nick Read said to have repeatedly demanded pay rises from the government and described bonus as ‘intolerable’

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Post Office boss sought ‘non-emotive words’ for Horizon bugs, inquiry hears

Paula Vennells and senior execs accused of ‘Orwellian’ use of language over computer system’s failings

The Guardian - UK

Change the law on computer evidence with an amendment to data protection bill

Letter: A group of software experts and barristers who have been supporting the subpostmasters affected by the Post Office Horizon miscarriages of justice call for changes to the bill going through the House of Lords

The Guardian - UK

Post Office was urged by external lawyers to ‘suppress’ key document, inquiry hears

Email was sent suggesting postal company should withhold disclosing investigation guidelines

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