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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

Evening Standard

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

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

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Paula Vennells' charity work

There’s been acres of media coverage of the disgraced Paula Vennells in recent weeks – largely in relation to her activity on the board of the Post Office.

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Ex-post office operator claims she was told British Asians were often pushed into theft

Exclusive: Kuldeep Kaur Atwal says auditors urged her to admit to stealing £30,000 – a charge of which she was later cleared

The Guardian - UK

Post Office Scandal: Investigator Admits 'We Should Have Not Been Doing Any Investigations'

The investigator, who was partly responsible for the conviction of Peter Holmes and Willian Quarm, tells lawyers that he was "just doing my job".

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Post Office set targets for recovering cash from operators accused in Horizon scandal

Inquiry hears that investigators were set rising targets linked to their bonuses for clawing back supposed losses

The Guardian - UK

Horizon scandal: concern over complex route to justice for Scottish victims

As inquiry hears evidence on Scottish case, worries raised about obstacles in road to justice for victims prosecuted by state prosecutor

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell survivors to confront executives of firms blamed for disaster

Survivors say in wake of Post Office scandal: ‘Those in power have lost their moral compass’

The Guardian - UK

If the Horizon Post Office story is treated as a scandal, nothing will change

Fujitsu, the IT giant behind the flawed Horizon software, remains one of the UK government’s key suppliers, and only a national crisis will shake things up

The Guardian - UK

If a firm’s mission mantra includes words like ‘trust’, be alarmed: just look at Fujitsu’s

Horizon developer and the Post Office are latest in a long line of corporate behemoths whose snappy slogans have fallen short

The Guardian - UK

Monica Dolan: ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office affected people because they saw their worst nightmare unfold’

The actor, 54, tells Hayley Myers about her scientific parents, missing Live Aid, working on accents and Velma, her Siberian husky

The Guardian - UK

Post Office: ‘appalling’ that courts not told of bugs, Fujitsu boss admits

Europe chief of tech firm embroiled in Horizon IT scandal tells inquiry that bugs were identified as early at 1999

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Fujitsu will never be held accountable for the Post Office scandal. It is too important to this government

This isn’t its first failure, yet the tech giant is so embedded in the public sector that it seems invincible, says Sam Fowles, a barrister, author and broadcaster

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell families say fight for justice has parallels with Post Office IT scandal

Bereaved accuse ministers of ‘whitewashing’ the disaster but tell of hope for a similar acceleration of justice

The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu manager described post office operator as ‘nasty chap’, inquiry hears

Peter Sewell apologises for language in email during Horizon-related prosecution that left Lee Castleton bankrupt

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

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The Guardian - UK

Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told

Asked about ‘missed opportunity’ to address problem, Fujitsu developer says focus was on replacing Horizon

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Mr Bates vs the Post Office: Britain needs more state-of-the-nation TV

Editorial: In a world dominated by global streamers, the search for international audiences must not crowd out domestically focused drama

The Guardian - UK

Post Office IT scandal: minister asks Fujitsu for talks on payouts for victims

Kemi Badenoch’s letter on share of compensation comes after $1bn wiped off Fujitsu’s value

The Guardian - UK

Tories reach new levels of derangement as MPs debate Rwanda bill

Nothing illustrates party’s ongoing meltdown better than its obsession with scheme that is never going to work

The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu still providing Horizon IT data for use in Post Office legal actions

Tech company knew of faults in system it used to extract data on transactions as early as 2008, inquiry hears

The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu should be on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds in redress

Yes, the Post Office pursued the prosecutions but Fujitsu provided the star witnesses and the dodgy software

The Guardian - UK

Post Office Horizon scandal: Scotland’s top prosecutor apologises ‘profusely’ to victims

Lord advocate ‘acutely concerned’ at manner in which Post Office officials ‘repeatedly misled’ prosecutors

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