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Vennells knew prosecution of post office operators was wrong, inquiry told

Former Royal Mail boss Moya Greene says Paula Vennells and top team ‘grossly understated’ Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

Former postal affairs minister says conduct of some civil servants was ‘Orwellian’ and raises questions of objectivity

The Guardian - UK

Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him

The Guardian - UK

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Ed Davey says Post Office lied to him and apologises to Alan Bates

Ex-minister and current Lib Dem leader tells inquiry he rejected campaigner when he first asked for meeting

The Guardian - UK

Watch: Former postal affairs minister Ed Davey questioned at Horizon IT inquiry

Watch as Sir Ed Davey gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday, 18 July.

The Independent UK

Wet and windy weather dampened cash transactions in June – Post Office

The fall in cash transactions follows record-breaking months in April and May, the Post Office said.

The Independent UK

Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

The Guardian - UK

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How to avoid blowing your budget while you’re on holiday this summer

Holidaymakers can easily end up spending hundreds of pounds more than planned, so here’s how to rein in that all-important budget.

The Independent UK

Post Office Horizon inquiry told of ‘incomplete curiosity’ and ‘toxic culture’

Former chair of Whitehall agencies overseeing state-owned businesses gives view on what went wrong

The Guardian - UK

Crime drama preview 2024 — 26 binge-worthy shows still to come this year

Our round-up of all the must-see mysteries and true-life-inspired stories still set to hit our screens in 2024.

WhatToWatch

Ex-Post Office chair expresses ‘sincere regret’ over Horizon scandal

Tim Parker tells inquiry the firm relied too heavily on lawyers and should have shown key report to the board

The Guardian - UK

Post Office: next government urged to consider transferring ownership to operators

Questions over future of state-owned business after victims of Horizon IT scandal receive compensation

The Guardian - UK

Post Office scandal: ex-Fujitsu engineer accused of ‘hiding’ IT problems

Lawyers acting for victims of Horizon IT scandal accuse Gareth Jenkins of protecting ‘out of control monster’

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Fujitsu engineer apologises at Post Office inquiry over ‘bandwagon’ claim

Gareth Jenkins says past accusation against high-profile victim of Horizon IT scandal was ‘totally inappropriate’

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The Guardian - UK

Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office

Gareth Jenkins, co-architect of flawed Horizon IT system, was expert witness in wrongful prosecutions of operators

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Fujitsu executive says he feels ‘aggrieved’ by damage done to Horizon’s reputation

Richard Christou tells public inquiry that real failure in Post Office scandal was the way prosecutions had been handled

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’

The Independent UK

Post Office issues urgent passport warning to anyone going on holiday this summer

More than a third of UK people are unaware of their passport expiry date

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The Independent UK

Post Office cash transactions set new record for second month in a row

Deposits and withdrawals totalled a record £3.57 billion in May, following a previous record in April.

The Guardian - UK

Your sermons on integrity are a bit rich, archbishop, given your faith in Paula Vennells

Justin Welby has urged politicians to behave nicely. Shame he didn’t say as much to the former Post Office boss

The Guardian - UK

Officials considered sacking Paula Vennells as Post Office boss in 2014

Horizon scandal inquiry is shown document saying board members and Whitehall had doubts about her suitability

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Post Office chair says senior executives misled board over Horizon issues

Alice Perkins was in post when warnings of tech problems first emerged, but says she ‘missed’ their importance

The Conversation

Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaesque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial

Somebody must have laid false information against [him], for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.

The Independent UK

Toby Jones claims Alan Bates turned down Glastonbury offer: ‘He can’t be bought’

British actor said the former subpostmaster he plays in ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ said ‘no thank you’ to opening the famous festival

The National (Scotland)

MSPs pass law to exonorate wrongly convicted sub-postmasters in Horizon scandal

HOLYROOD has passed “unprecedented” legislation to exonerate subpostmasters in Scotland who were wrongly convicted as part of the Post Office…

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