Billions in compensation yet to be paid to victims of major UK scandals IN FULL The Independent UK · Apr 17
Post Office and Windrush scandal victims waiting years for compensation as £12bn still unpaid Less than a quarter of this sum had been paid out by February this year, the National Audit Office (NAO) said The Independent UK · Apr 16
‘Hurry for justice’: Windrush victims dying without redress, commissioner says Clive Foster says action needed now to deliver justice to UK residents who had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants The Guardian - UK · Feb 7
Singer Beverley Knight says Windrush generation has been treated ‘abysmally’ Knight said British music would look very different without the impact of the Windrush generation. Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2025
Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul Exclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first time The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025
‘You don’t have to be in London’: why Barbados is inviting people back to their homeland Ever since the HMT Empire Windrush docked, Caribbean migrants have flowed to the UK. Now a younger generation are seeking a connection to their roots on the other side of the pond The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2025
Windrush commissioner ‘must hold Government to account’ The Windrush scandal – which campaigners have since said should be known as the Home Office scandal – erupted in 2018. Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2025
London Overground: Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals his favourite line after £6.3m rebranding of train network ‘Like naming children, not everyone agrees,’ says TfL chief tasked with turning hundreds of suggestions into a shortlist Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2024
Mayor Sadiq Khan launches new London Overground lines and colours The six lines will be called Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty. The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024
London’s Overground lines have a new name and colour 6,000 station direction signs as well as maps, digital screens and online journey planners will be updated The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2024
London Overground lines to be given names and colours from Wednesday Transport for London (TfL) said it will update 6,000 station direction signs as well as maps, digital screens and online journey planners. Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2024
From Grenfell to Bloody Sunday, the UK’s formal apologies Government has resisted calls to say sorry for slave trade or colonialism but has done so for other historical wrongs The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2024
Urgent call for new public body to handle state scandal compensation schemes in wake of damning report ‘These people have been failed by the state and it is unacceptable that schemes designed to compensate them are further adding to the damage already caused’ The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2024
Lenny Henry rues fate of black TV dramas after Three Little Birds axed Exclusive: Star’s Windrush ITV show cut after just one series as TV industry loses funding streams The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024
The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2024 Victims of infected blood scandal to learn details of compensation Minister to set out £10bn scheme after pledge from Rishi Sunak to pay ‘whatever it costs’
The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024 Labour plans to extend equal pay rights to black, Asian and minority ethnic staff Exclusive: Radical changes in a draft race equality act would give same protections as women now receive
The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023 Murder victim’s mother behind Helen’s Law found it hard receiving her MBE Marie McCourt’s campaigning led to the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act being enacted in 2021.
The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2023 Windrush pensioner, 92, among overseas NatWest customers to have accounts axed by bank Exclusive: Philip Cato had thousands of pounds withheld by the bank after it shut his account in clampdown on overseas account holders
The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023 Britain marks the Windrush anniversary with the story of its Caribbean community still being written Seventy-five years ago, a ship carrying more than 800 passengers from the Caribbean to new lives in Britain landed at Tilbury Dock near London
The Conversation · Jun 19, 2023 The Black-owned publishing houses that shaped the Windrush generation The story of Britain’s Black publishers is one of endurance and monumental creativity in the face of repeated attempts at persecution and denigration.
Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2023 How Windrush Generation faced race hate, injustice and a fight for equality in UK The passengers were workers who came here to find a better life, who responded to the post-WWII call of the mother country, and who deserve to be celebrated for all of their achievements
Daily Mirror · Jun 2, 2023 Marcus Rashford and Ian Wright to lead celebration of Windrush's contribution to sport The FA will host a special event on Windrush Day later this month to commemorate the first generation of immigrants who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush, with a host of sports stars invited
Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2022 Son launches Windrush rum inspired by father’s voyage The son of West Indian immigrants who came to London on the Windrush is to launch a range of “inclusive” products under the name of the celebrated ship that brought his parents to Britain.