12 h. ago What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently | Simon Tisdall

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine’s overs...

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13 h. ago Son of Scots Post Office victim who died penniless vows to continue fight for justice

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Daryl Wallace said his mum Fiona McGowan's death won't be in vain and welcomed recommendations that close family receive compensation for their suffering.

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23 h. ago 'Vicious' psycho seagulls attack posties as rounds stopped and people forced to collect

Locals have been asked to pick up post from delivery office as post workers swerve the violent gulls

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29 h. ago Voices: Why is Fujitsu still winning government contracts in the wake of the Post Office scandal?

Before the Horizon IT system was found to be deficient, some victims were financially ruined, some imprisoned – and some took their own lives. Yet in the last year, Fujitsu still picked up more than 20 contracts worth nearly £800m. What sort of ‘justice’ is this, asks James Moore

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54 h. ago Voices: I’m a Post Office scandal victim – the only reason I didn’t kill myself in prison was my unborn child

An official inquiry has found that the Horizon scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides. Former subpostmistress Seema Misra says she came close to being one of them

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61 h. ago Brave Scots mum’s plea after newborn son’s heart stopped working just weeks after birth

"Vinnie went really limp, very lethargic... He hadn't cried since being discharged from hospital and was rarely eating. I knew something was wrong."

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3 d. ago LBC host Nick Ferrari stunned at minister's reply after Post Office scandal IT firm 'rewarded'

Defence Secretary John Healey was confronted over the decision to award more than £500million in government contracts to Fujitsu since the ITV drama on the Post Office scandal

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3 d. ago Murdered by a 'Rolex ripper' outside famous restaurant in broad daylight: Masked mugger fatally stabs man who 'tried to fight back' outside five

The murder victim died outside the £1,650-a-night 5-star Park Tower Hotel and Casino, which is directly across the road from the Harvey Nichols department store in Knightsbridge.

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3 d. ago ITVX and Disney+ to carry each other’s programmes from next week

The regularly refreshed showcase of shows will bring programmes such as The Bear to ITV and offer Disney+ series like Mr Bates Vs The Post Office.

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3 d. ago Man in his 30s dies after being stabbed outside luxury hotel and casino in Knightsbridge

The murder victim died outside the £1,650-a-night 5-star Park Tower Hotel and Casino, which is directly across the road from the Harvey Nichols department store in Knightsbridge.

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3 d. ago Government urges Fujitsu to pay compensation to victims of Post Office scandal

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

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4 d. ago Post Office scandal: how many subpostmasters have received compensation?

A damning Post Office Inquiry report called for more to be done to compensate the thousands of people impacted

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4 d. ago Scots postmasters slam Post Office staff who knowingly allowed Horizon scandal to unfold

A bombshell first report from a major inquiry into what is considered the biggest miscarriage of justice the UK has seen laid bare the “disastrous” toll on victims.

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4 d. ago Post Office 'has blood on its hands' as Horizon scandal report finds at least THIRTEEN people may have taken their own lives

Around 1,000 branch managers were prosecuted, 236 went to jail, and thousands more were wrongly accused over shortfalls in their tills caused by Horizon.

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5 d. ago Government ‘sympathetic’ to Post Office inquiry’s 19 recommendations – minister

The Government will respond ‘properly’ to Sir Wyn’s recommendations by the inquiry’s October 10 deadline, minister Gareth Thomas pledged.

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5 d. ago ‘Oldest’ victim of Horizon IT scandal says ordeal ‘destroyed’ her health

Betty Brown, 92, from County Durham, ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband when the faulty Horizon software was introduced.

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5 d. ago Emmanuel Macron to address parliament following meeting with king – UK politics live

The French president has spent time with King Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the first day of his state visit to the UKFrench police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the right tactic, Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has said. Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker have the story.Boris Johnson, the former Tory PM, has issued this tribute to Norman Tebbit.Norman Tebbit was a hero of modern Conservatism. In the early 1980s he liberated the British workforce from the socialist tyranny of the closed shop. He tamed the union bosses, and in so doing he helped pave the way for this country’s revival in the 1980s and 1990s.At a time when the Labour government is now disastrously reversing those crucial reforms we need to remember what he did and why. In his single most famous phrase he once said that in the 1930s his unemployed father had got on his bike and looked for work. That wasn’t a heartless thing to say - as the Labour Party claimed. It...

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5 d. ago Emmanuel Macron's state visit explained: Why is he visiting the UK?

This is the first time an official state visit of this nature has taken place post-Brexit. Today is the first day in a three-day visit that is set to take place at Windsor Castle. But what exactly is Macron hoping to get out of this?

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5 d. ago At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK's Post Office wrongful convictions scandal

A report says at least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal

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5 d. ago Dozens contemplated suicide over the Post Office Horizon scandal

At least 13 postmasters may have taken their own lives after being accused of crimes based on evidence from the faulty IT system, a public inquiry found

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