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Post Office campaigner Alan Bates marries partner on Richard Branson’s private island

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoon

The Guardian - UK

Tory donor Lycamobile handed HMRC winding-up order amid tax dispute

Loss-making pay-as-you-go sim card seller had been embroiled in eight-year VAT battle

The Guardian - UK

The best TV of 2024 so far, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office to Big Boys

This year we’ve already had dramas that have changed the world, reality TV that’s made us scream at the telly, and romcoms that have made us cry, writes Ellie Harrison

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Post Office cash transactions hit record £3.7bn in July

The return to summer weather in July helped contribute to the record cash handling month, the Post Office said.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Rachel Reeves’s huge £47bn compensation bill for historical injustice, cover-up and negligence

Exclusive: Attempts by the chancellor to get a grip on Britain’s finances have been made more difficult by an outstanding bill of £47bn for past mistakes by the British state

The Independent UK

Toxic culture, poor leadership: what Horizon inquiry has told us so far

As latest phase of inquiry concludes – with final stage set to begin in September – we itemise the key takeaways

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Post Office victims to get access to new compensation scheme

About 900 operators with overturned convictions offered fixed settlement of £600,000 or can proceed to full claim

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Post Office was ‘very badly run and messy’, says former chair

Neil McCausland criticises business and tells inquiry Horizon IT system was ‘clunky and creaky’

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

Melvyn Bragg makes an impassioned plea to save the arts in Britain; wronged subpostmasters tell their story; a medieval romp channels Covid and The White Lotus. Plus, a time-travelling Lisa Kudrow

The Guardian - UK

Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’, Vince Cable tells inquiry

Former business secretary claims he would have got to grips with Horizon IT scandal if MPs had come to speak to him

The Guardian - UK

Government should have intervened at time of Post Office lawsuit, ex-minister says

Margot James says she should have ‘delved more closely’ as Post Office developed legal defence of Horizon system

The Guardian - UK

I felt slightly threatened at meeting with Post Office, ex-minister tells inquiry

Lady Neville-Rolfe says she had ‘road to Damascus’ moment when MPs raised flaws in prosecutions with executives

The Guardian - UK

Surviving the Post Office review – fresh details of the appalling scandal will make you even more angry

Will Mellor meets the Post Office workers whose lives have been torn apart – including the remarkable operator who, after paying back money she never owed, feels sick each time she still has to use the Horizon system

The Guardian - UK

Mr Bates v Post Office star Will Mellor says he is still ‘angry’ about Horizon scandal

‘Innocent people were made to feel like criminals’ said the actor

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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

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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

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The Independent 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 Guardian - 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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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