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How much could the Post Office scandal cost the taxpayer?
How much is the Post Office scandal likely to cost the taxpayer?
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Fujitsu: Tech firm facing calls to pay Post Office victims compensation
Fujitsu, the Japanese technology firm which manufactured the faulty Horizon software, will be quizzed by MPs next week about their role.
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Former Post Office boss hands back CBE as government considers overturning convictions
The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has handed back her CBE, saying she’s truly sorry for the devastation caused to the victims of the Horizon scandal.
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Legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer dies aged 78
The legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer has died at the age of 78.
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‘Propulsion failure’ threatens first US moon landing mission in fifty years
A privately-run mission to the Moon has hit a technical hitch – just a few hours after blasting off from Florida. The company behind the launch says there’s been a ‘failure within the propulsion system’ and it’s now working out what the mission will be able to achieve.
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Idris Elba launches new campaign to tackle knife crime
The actor Idris Elba says he can’t “stay silent as more young lives are lost to brutal and heartless crimes” as he launched a new campaign to tackle youth violence and knife crime.
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Boeing shares plummet after 737 plane door blows out mid-flight
Shares in Boeing have tumbled by nine percent after America’s aviation watchdog ordered dozens of their 737 Max aircraft to be grounded for urgent inspections.
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Schoolboy drowned in river was ‘pushed by another teenager’ inquest hears
The inquest has started into the death of a 13-year-old boy who drowned in the River Cynon in south Wales in July 2019.
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Energy companies to forcibly fit pre-payment meters again
Energy companies will be allowed to forcibly fit pre-payment metres in customers homes – a year after the practice was put on hold.
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Post Office scandal: Fujitsu should be investigated and ‘no stone left unturned’, says Conservative MP
The Post Office minister Kevin Holinrake has given a statement to MPs, describing the Horizon scandal as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.
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‘This will end when everyone realises that the losses are bigger than any gains obtained’ – UN Relief Agency director on Gaza conflict
We spoke to Tamara Alrifai from the UN’s refugee agency for Palestine and began by asking her about what staff in Gaza are telling her about the situation there.
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Israel-Gaza: Patients flee Gaza hospital surrounded by Israeli ‘red zone’
Medical staff and patients have been fleeing from the main hospital in central Gaza, as Israel dropped leaflets warning residents the surrounding area had been designated a red zone.
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Post Office scandal: ‘It’s diabolical, it has to be resolved’ says former sub-postmaster, Alan Bates
The man who helped make all this possible through his tireless campaign for justice was the former subpostmaster Alan Bates.
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Post Office scandal: PM “strongly supports” withdrawing CBE from ex-Post Office boss
“We are on it” Rishi Sunak declared today as he sought to reassure sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted of defrauding the Post Office in the Horizon scandal that he would speed up the process of quashing their convictions and making sure they get full compensation.
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Sunak hints at further tax cuts
Rishi Sunak has denied having significant doubts when he was Chancellor about the government’s policy to send migrants to Rwanda.