19 h. ago 'Killer' postmaster 'may be worst victim of Horizon scandal' after Post Office murder

Robin Garbutt, 60, has served 15 years for the murder of his wife Diana. He says that she was killed by a robber at their post office in Melsonby, N. Yorks in 2010. A new documentary raises serious questions about the safety of his conviction

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24 h. ago ‘A PR stunt’: Post Office scandal victims dismiss plans for museum exhibition

Many victims and families advising inquiry’s legacy project are highly suspicious of idea of Postal Museum exhibitionVictims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have dismissed a planned exhibition on the affair at the Postal Museum as a PR stunt that they are refusing to endorse.The inquiry into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of post office operators announced in September that it was working with the Postal Museum as part of a legacy project to commemorate the devastating impact of the scandal. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Families lose thousands and cannot sell their homes in scandal 'that is going to be the next Post Office Horizon nightmare'

Scottish law firm WW&J McClure Limited (McClure) sold family protection trusts to couples across the country, usually offered as an add-on to a free will writing service.

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4 d. ago Post Office and Fujitsu had deal 19 years ago to fix Horizon mistakes, document shows

The 2006 agreement suggests both companies were aware of bugs in the Horizon IT system, with Fujitsu liable for a £100-£150 "liquidated damages" penalty per faulty transaction

Economics

7 d. ago Labour is accused of covering up Chinese hack of Foreign Office records amid scandal over Beijing spies and Keir Starmer's controversial China visit

The Government was accused today of covering up a Chinese hack of the Foreign Office in the midst of the Beijing spy scandal and Sir Keir Starmer's upcoming visit to China.

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9 d. ago Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests

Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserveEnvironmental groups and local campaigners in the Basque Country have welcomed the scrapping of a project to build an outpost of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum on a Unesco biosphere reserve that is a vital habitat for local wildlife and migrating birds.The scheme’s backers, which include the Guggenheim Foundation, the Basque government and local and regional authorities, had claimed the museum’s twin sites – one in the Basque town of Guernica and one in the nearby Urdaibai reserve – would help revitalise the area, attract investment and create jobs. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Roy Keane slams Kobbie Mainoo's 'idiot' brother and questions Man United star's attitude

The social media post of Kobbie Mainoo's post has split opinion and Roy Keane has slammed the stunt as 'idiotic' amid uncertainty over where the Manchester United star stands

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1 week ago Residents fume as owner of Michael Jordan’s old Chicago home plans to turn it into a museum

Some residents were fearful of the crowds that the proposed museum might bring to their neighborhood

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1 week ago My best friend was bludgeoned to death & her husband jailed questions could prove he was victim of Post Office scandal

THE violent murder of well-liked sub-postmistress horrified those living the sleepy Yorkshire village of Melsonby. An armed and masked robber had bludgeoned Diana Garbutt to death in her bed upstairs before coming down and demanding £16,000 in cash from the safe, her distraught husband, Robin, told police.  But just three weeks later, locals were in...

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2 w. ago Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum announces southern outpost in Eindhoven

Museum, which includes rich collection of Vermeers and Rembrandts, currently shows only fraction of its 1m objectsAmsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which holds the world’s largest trove of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, has announced plans to open an outpost in Eindhoven.The museum, which showcases only a fraction of its more than 1m objects, said on Thursday it would construct the 3,500 sq metre centre over the next six to eight years. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40

A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a planWhen a whale dies, its body descends to the bottom of the deep sea in a transformative phenomenon called a whale fall. A whale’s death jump-starts an explosion of life, enough to feed and sustain a deep-ocean ecosystem for decades.There are a lot of ways whales can die. Migrating whales lose their way and, unable to find their way back from unfamiliar waters, are stranded. They can starve when prey disappears or fall to predators such as orcas. They become bycatch, tangled in fishing lines and nets. Mass whale deaths have been linked to marine heatwaves and the toxic algae blooms that follow. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police officer in spycops scandal deceived two women at same time, inquiry told

Mark Jenner began five-year relationship with Alison, a leftwing activist, while under cover spying on political campaignersAn undercover police officer deceived two women at the same time over many years in a sustained betrayal of both of them, the spycops public inquiry has heard.Mark Jenner had a relationship with a leftwing activist, known as Alison, for five years without disclosing to her that he was in reality an undercover officer who was spying on political campaigners. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’ One of the most senior civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has placed the blame for the carer’s allowance benefits crisis on victims, many of who have been left with life-changing debts.In an internal blogpost written for Whitehall colleagues, Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, said individual failings by carers were “at the heart” of the issue that has been likened to the Post Office Horizon scandal. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago King Charles wrote 'apology letter' to royal staff member who lost his job after 'scandal'

King Charles was forced to write a letter of apology to a royal protection officer who was sacked after a scandal involving the future monarch and a glass of cherry brandy

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3 w. ago Postmasters who signed gagging orders in Post Office scandal urged to come forward

Officers also hint that top executives at Post Office and Fujitsu may face investigation

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3 w. ago Post Office Horizon scandal twist as more suspects to be quizzed in coming months

Police are probing 53 'persons of interest' in relation to one of the biggest miscarriages of justice cases in British legal history but the huge probe could be delayed if it does not get funding

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3 w. ago From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, Britain is still tearing Caribbean families apart | Nadine White

Leaving eight-year-old Lati-Yana Brown homeless and cut off from her mother should never have been sanctioned by the stateBritain’s long history with the Caribbean, from enslavement to the Windrush scandal, is marked by policies that have fractured families. The Home Office’s latest actions show little has changed. After the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, a tropical cyclone that made landfall across the Greater Antilles area in late October, eight-year-old Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown was left destitute in Jamaica. But after her UK-resident parents appealed for the Home Office to expedite her visa application, officials rejected it and Lati-Yana has been left to sleep on the floor of her elderly grandmother’s destroyed home.But the rejection rested on factual errors, according to Lati-Yana’s mother, Kerrian Bigby. Dawn Butler, her MP, shared a letter with me raising concerns about “misrepresentations” in the decision notice, including the claim that Bigby does not have full parental...

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3 w. ago Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal

A process of providing case file material to the Crown Prosecution Service is ongoing

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3 w. ago Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal probe

Police are considering corporate manslaughter charges as part of their probe into the Post Office Horizon scandal, which is believed to have led to 13 people taking their own lives

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