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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Post Office disclosure failures force delays on IT scandal inquiry

      Discovery of emails on legacy system means evidence from two ‘significant witnesses’ will be held up

      Postmasters outside the High Court in 2021 after their convictions were quashed
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK offers wrongfully convicted Post Office workers £600,000 each

      Move comes as officials seek to draw partial line under long-running Horizon IT scandal

      Former post office workers celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in April
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      UK banks
      Give public and business cash services within 3 miles or be fined, UK banks told

      Campaigners bemoan lack of detail in new government plans to boost access to deposits and withdrawals

      Cash at an ATM
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      Victims of Post Office IT scandal face compensation delays

      Public inquiry chair says postmasters could lose out on money due to ‘lack of clarity’ around government plans

      Protesters outside the Post Office Horizon inquiry in December
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Head of public inquiry threatens Post Office officials with criminal penalties

      Postmasters hearing faces further setbacks as chair sets legal penalties for disclosure failures

    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Post Office bosses urged to return bonuses paid in error

      Business committee chair asks top executives to repay ‘100%’ of payments received for work with Horizon scandal inquiry

      Post Office sign
    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Government adviser calls for Post Office board to resign

      Bonuses were paid to senior executives despite wrongful prosecutions in sub-postmaster scandal

      Protesters support the wrongly prosecuted sub-postmasters in London in December last year
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Post Office boss repays part of bonus relating to IT scandal

      Nick Read to return money after group was told it misled inquiry into sub-postmaster computer scandal

      Nick Read, chief executive of the Post Office
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      UK banks
      Banks tighten limits on cash deposits made at post offices

      City regulator sets out new fraud measures but Post Office warns of impact

      A Post Office banking hub in Cambuslang, Scotland
    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      Pound Sterling
      Egypt proves more affordable for British holidaymakers

      High inflation has made the country good value, according to Post Office Holiday Money Index

      The statue of Ramses II in Egypt
    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Inquiry hears of postmaster compensation struggles

      Wronged former managers of Post Office branches continue to suffer ‘grave’ difficulties in accessing payments, hearing told

      Protesters outside the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at the International Dispute Resolution Centre, London
    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Postmasters caught up in IT scandal awarded £19.5mn compensation

      UK ministers allot interim payouts to those who brought legal action against Post Office

      Postmasters celebrate outside the High Court
    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      Work & Careers
      Asking the right questions is crucial when computer evidence is disputed

      Faulty software led to careers and lives ruined at the UK Post Office. What can be done to challenge AI’s reliability?

      Lee Castleton, a former sub-postmaster
    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      Sunak sets up compensation scheme for postmasters who brought High Court action

      UK chancellor announces fund after former Post Office staff lose majority of £57.75mn settlement to legal fees

      Former Post Office workers celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice after having their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal
    • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
      Personal Finance
      British holidaymakers flock to Mexico

      Relative strength of sterling improves value for travellers to key destinations

      Holidaymakers on the beach at Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      Camilla Cavendish
      Britain’s Post Office scandal claimed hundreds of victims, but what of its villains?

      After two decades of whitewash, it is time to hold those responsible to account

      Jonathan McHugh illustration showing a postmaster behind bars and in handcuffs
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      UK politics
      MPs urge full compensation for UK postmasters who exposed miscarriage of justice

      The 555 claimants, including some wrongly prosecuted for theft, won case in 2019 that blamed faulty IT system

    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      Hundreds of ‘lives ruined’ by Post Office scandal, inquiry hears

      Executives said to have known IT system was faulty but still used evidence from it as basis for prosecutions

    • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
      UK to cover payouts for former Post Office workers wrongly convicted of theft

      Hundreds of sub-postmasters could receive compensation after dozens have convictions quashed

      A Post Office sign
    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Great Post Office Scandal — a shameful story of justice denied

      Nick Wallis’s book details how the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrecked by a misplaced faith in technology

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      Pressure mounts on UK government to pay postmasters’ legal bill

      Much of the £57m awarded to 555 victims of faulty IT system has been swallowed up by legal fees

    • Monday, 23 August, 2021
      The Big Read
      Post Office struggles to recover from a bruising scandal

      Facing ever greater competition and doubts over its business model, the state-owned UK group is seeking to reinvent itself

    • Tuesday, 17 August, 2021
      UK economy
      UK banks extend pilot scheme for sharing branches

      Political pressure mounts over access to cash for elderly and vulnerable

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      UK sub-postmasters to get interim payout for wrongful convictions

      Move is a step towards full settlements for the 59 people who have won appeals related to Post Office IT scandal

      Former sub-postmasters celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London
    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Could sharing bank branches help save the high street?

      Pilot scheme is obvious solution to maintaining access to cash — but the clock is ticking

      Sharing is caring: five UK high street banks operate from the Bank Hub in Rochford, Essex, which is managed by the Post Office
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