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UNCOVERED: Windrush org | History Defined

Billions in compensation yet to be paid to victims of major UK scandals

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The Independent UK

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

‘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

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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

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

‘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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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The Independent UK

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

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

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

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

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.

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