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Police warning over phone scam after elderly man is conned out of £16,000

One elderly victim gave the scammers his bank details which allowed them to steal £12,000 over the phone and another £4,000 that was couriered through the Post Office

Chronicle Live

Scots roofer tried to send cocaine hidden inside Playstation controller into jail

Roy Ainslie had posted the package - containing £840 of cocaine - from the local branch of the Post Office close to his home.

Daily Record

Fewer people living within reach of banks and building societies as branches shut

The number of bricks-and-mortar branches of larger banks and building societies providing personal current accounts fell in the third quarter of 2021.

The Independent UK

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Fewer people living near major banks and building societies as branches shut

The number of bricks-and-mortar branches of larger banks and building societies providing personal current accounts fell in the third quarter of 2021.

The Independent UK

Post Office IT scandal: victims say bosses should answer for their role

Wrongly jailed former worker tells public inquiry he tried to kill himself three times

The Guardian - UK

Calls for mobile Post Office van to visit Howwood to give village a service again

Howwood has not had a Post Office for the last decade and Councillor Andy Doig has asked if a new mobile van route could include in the village

Daily Record

‘I was humiliated, terrified’: more Post Office IT victims speak up

Opening a second week of testimony, persecuted ex-employees tell of public shaming, broken families and threats of incarceration

The Guardian - UK

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Show finally gets on the road with the mobile post office

The counter on wheels will tour Renfrewshire as well as spots in Ayrshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MP backs calls for halt to closure of local Post Office branches

The Post Office confirmed this week that the St Leonards branch would remain closed as no new operator could be found

Daily Record

Post Office IT scandal 'ruined life' of Bolton subpostmaster who suffered heart attack at 33

"I'm still suffering from severe depression and it just changed my life, it's never been the same after that"

Manchester Evening News

‘They ripped the life out of me’: ex-Post Office staff tell inquiry of stress of IT scandal

Former workers say they suffered depression and PTSD after being accused of financial wrongdoing

The Guardian - UK

Former Alderley Edge subpostmaster says his 'world fell in' after wrongly being labelled a criminal

"The whole thing was just so humiliating and embarrassing. I was in such a deep hole with this"

Manchester Evening News

Who will pay for the hundreds of lives the Post Office destroyed?

Letters: Readers express their anger over the inhumane treatment of wrongly prosecuted subpostmasters, whose traumatic experiences are now being fully revealed in a public inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Post Office had deliberate policy of blame for missing money, inquiry told

Scott Darlington said the Post Office took an ‘attritional’ approach to subpostmasters over missing money.

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The Guardian - UK

Innocent Post Office manager’s children told she was a ‘thief’, hears inquiry

Susan Hazzleton says taunting at school happened after she was wrongly accused of stealing £300 despite reporting faults in Horizon IT system

The Independent UK

Stress of faulty IT system ‘nearly killed me’, subpostmistress tells inquiry

Wendy Martin opened her own Post Office in York in February 2015 and told the hearing she immediately faced problems with the computer systems.

Evening Standard

Branch manager may lose home after being wrongly prosecuted in Post Office scandal

A subpostmistress who was wrongly prosecuted 20 years ago thanks to flaws in the Post Office computer system is being forced to sell her home as a result of the scandal, she told an inquiry.

Liverpool Echo

Mum became homeless after being wrongly convicted of stealing £3k

She said the conviction led to the end of her marriage

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Nottingham Post

Post Office worker's 'life torn apart' after wrongly being jailed of stealing £200k

'My life got torn apart'

Wales Online

Wronged, humiliated, destroyed: The story of three lives ruined by the Post Office scandal in Wales

Welsh victims have been giving their evidence to a public inquiry

The Independent UK

MPs demand full compensation for wronged Post Office staff as former employees describe ‘hell’ of ordeal

‘Everything has just fallen apart for me and I want somebody to go to prison,’ one former post office worker testifies

The Guardian - UK

Falsely convicted postal workers must be ‘fully compensated’, says committee

MPs raise concerns over lengthy amount of time taken for payout to wrongly accused former Post Office workers

The Independent UK

Subpostmaster’s wrongful conviction contributed to early death, widow says

Julian Wilson, who ran a post office in Worcestershire, took a plea deal in 2008 after auditors found more than £27,000 missing from the accounts.

The Guardian - UK

Wrongful conviction contributed to Post Office worker’s death, says widow

Inquiry hears of workers feeling worthless and shunned and lives falling apart as a result of IT scandal

The Independent UK

Post Office worker ‘fell apart’ after being wrongly convicted of stealing £200k

More than 700 subpostmasters and subpostmistresses were prosecuted between 2000 and 2014, based on information from the Horizon IT system.

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