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Family facing £3,300 bill after falling ill on the last day of holiday in Spain

Angel Kirkland and her partner Ryan Smith were taken to a medical room and put on drips after both falling ill. They were then diagnosed with gastroenteritis and had to pay for treatment

Daily Mirror

Scottish mum says she 'felt like prisoner' during Spanish holiday from hell

Angel Kirkland and her partner Ryan fell ill whilst on holiday with their six-month old daughter, which resulted in a week's stay in a Tenerife hospital after their insurance company refused to pay

Edinburgh Live

‘How long can Post Office hide from paying proper compensation?’

Former postmasters whose lives were ‘ruined’ by the Horizon IT system scandal said bosses should be forced to apologise and pay back their bonuses.

The Independent UK

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HMRC alert for everyone with Post Office accounts for benefits and tax credits

Post Office card accounts are closing down for good in a few weeks and you could lose your money if you don't provide an alternative warns HRMC - the deadline is currently April 5 2022

Glasgow Live

'The evillest of lies': Wrongly-prosecuted postmasters whose marriages and mental health failed attack the Post Office

Mark Kelly ran the Brondeg Post Office in Swansea from 2003 to 2006

Wales Online

Tax Credits and Child Benefits payments could stop for some claimants next month

Time is running out for people who collect their payments using a Post Office account.

Daily Record

Post Office in talks to replace closed Whitletts Road counter

Seven months on from the loss of the Post Office counter at Spar in Whitletts Road, talks are underway with another retailer in the area.

Daily Record

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Benefit claimants have weeks left to update payments or risk money being stopped

HMRC will stop paying tax credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance payments into Post Office card accounts from April 5, 2022 - this means you need to update your details before this date

Daily Mirror

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

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

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The Guardian - UK

‘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

Daily Record

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

Manchester Evening News

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"

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The Guardian - UK

‘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

Manchester Evening News

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"

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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.

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.

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