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Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner

Hundreds of victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have waited almost 25 years to receive compensation and have their convictions quashed - and now the PM has promised justice

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced Post Office scandal victims are to be exonerated, however it is too late for some families who were destroyed by the catastrophic wrongdoing

The Government has vowed to clear the names of hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted of stealing money from the Post Office, but for many, the news is tragically too late

Rishi Sunak made the long-awaited announcement at Prime Minister's Questions after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake sparked anger after he said it's not right for people to "make up their minds based on a dramatisation" as he was confronted by former Post Office workers who were victims of the Horizon scandal

Traumatised Janet Skinner was wrongly accused of stealing nearly £60,000 from her Post Office in Hull, Yorkshire, and was sent to prison for nine months in 2007 aged 35

Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE

Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

Mr Bates vs the Post Office writer, Gwyneth Hughes, has opened up about the success of the ITV real-life show, which has captured the hearts of the nation

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was a mistake to award Paula Vennells a CBE in 2019, despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart by the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history

A former Post Office worker has opened up about the horrific impact the Horizon scandal had on his family and how he even struggled to send his daughter to school

The Post Office Horizon scandal has been highlighted by ITV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which aired last week, but only a handful of the wrongful convictions have been overturned

Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says

Hasmukh Shingadia ran the Post Office in the village of Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire, where Kate Middleton lived with her family and got an invitation from Kate to her wedding to Prince ­William

Marion Holmes says her husband Peter was “destroyed” when he had to plead guilty to false accounting in order for the police to drop the theft charge in a plea bargain

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail

The ITV new drama series, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, has brought the post office scandal back under the spotlight since its release on New Year's Day, and one person who ensured that the drama made it to the small screen was Toby Jones

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office has left ITV viewers across the nation horrified with the emotional story of sub-postmasters whose lives were wrecked by a faulty computer system. But who is Paula Vennells and what exactly was her involvement in the shocking scandal?

Paula Vennells is the former head of the Post Office and was in charge when hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted for theft, fraud and false accounting. She has now handed back her CBE following escalating calls for her to do so after the hard-hitting ITV drama

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was awarded a CBE in 2019 to services to the organisation despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart over the Horizon IT scandal

Subpostmistress Jo Hamilton - who is played by Monica Dolan in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office - has slammed Paula Vennells for accepting her CBE amid the Post Office scandal

Fujitsu always knew its Horizon system, the accounting software which saw accounts automated after subpostmasters entered their sales figures via a touchscreen, was faulty, it is claimed

Part of the process of making sure something like the enormous and outrageous Post Office scandal never happens again is to question everyone involved in the affair - and that includes Rishi Sunak