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Employee-owned Post Office model ‘unlikely to be considered until 2030’

The current level of taxpayer funding for the Government-owned postal service was unsustainable, the Department for Business and Trade said.

The Independent UK

Post Office could hand ownership to staff amid review after Horizon scandal

Ministers to consider mutualisation as an option in first big review of the organisation in 15 years

The Guardian - UK

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

COMMENT : 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…

The Independent UK

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OPINION - Fewer deliveries, higher cost... is this Ofcom's idea of reform?

Second class deliveries two or three days a week isn’t reform of the postal service

Evening Standard

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

COMMENT: 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

The Independent UK

Post Office Horizon Scandal: 13 Postmasters Dead by Suicide, 59 'Considered It' After False Theft Claims

The Post Office Horizon Scandal has been reopened, initially taking place between 1999 and 2015. It addressed the plight of wrongfully accused postmasters versus the functionality of a faulty IT system.

International Business Times UK

The Guardian view on the Post Office scandal: justice delayed, redress demanded and a nation’s shame exposed

Editorial: The public inquiry judge delivered a blistering moral verdict on a public institution that turned on its own people with devastating consequences

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Post Office inquiry: Key points from the report

The findings from the first report on the scandal have been published

Evening Standard

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: five things we learned from the report

We look at what volume one of the inquiry report describes as the ‘disastrous’ human impact

The Guardian - UK

‘We lost so many along the way’: Horizon scandal victims welcome inquiry report

Those falsely accused by Post Office praise findings, but want to see firmer deadlines on compensation

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

‘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.

Evening Standard

Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead

You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

UK Post Office Scandal May Have Caused 13 Suicides: Inquiry

Thirteen people caught up in a faulty accounting software scandal at British Post Office branches may have killed themselves and 59 more contemplated doing so, a public inquiry report published Tuesday said.

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Euronews

UK Post Office scandal may have led to at least 13 suicides, inquiry finds

About 10,000 people are seeking compensation, revealed the first volume of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry report.

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

Fujitsu getting away ‘scot-free’ from Horizon scandal, says postmaster

Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn Williams’ final report.

Evening Standard

The Post Office Horizon Scandal: A timeline of what happened and the subsequent ramifications

The timeline of events involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal goes all the way back to 1999.

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The Independent UK

The key events leading up to Post Office inquiry report publication

The Post Office Horizon IT inquiry is due to publish a final report – here we look at the key events in the scandal

The Independent UK

The Post Office scandal in numbers: Inquiry report reveals devastating impact

The scale of the human impact of the scandal has been revealed in the first volume of the public inquiry’s final report

The National (Scotland)

Almost 60 people contemplated suicide amid Post Office scandal, report says

ALMOST 60 people who experienced problems with the Post Office's Horizon IT system contemplated taking their own lives, an inquiry has found.

The Independent UK

Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, official inquiry finds

Some 10,000 people entitled to compensation after Post Office bosses ‘maintained the fiction’ the Horizon system was accurate, the report found

The Independent UK

Dozens thought about suicide due to Post Office Horizon scandal, report finds

The inquiry chairman said those caught up in the scandal will have ‘found the experience to be troubling at best and harrowing at worst’.

The Independent UK

Post Office bosses ‘maintained fiction’ Horizon was accurate, inquiry concludes

Chairman Sir Wyn Williams published the first tranche of his final report on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Post Office scandal drove 13 victims to suicide and dozens more considered taking their own lives, damning inquiry report reveals

Inquiry report delivers devastating assessment of the damage done by the scandal, which is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history

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