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Post Office scandal: PO Board at war, Vennells’ Inquiry dates released and disgraced PO Director of Comms leaves
Staunton: PO CEO is under investigation Hi Hope you’re doing okay. I spent most of the week chugging around the country in my aging Peugeot 5008 (I call it the Atomic Potato), filming things for ITV News. I was able to catch most of Tuesday’s Business Select Committee evidence (watch it all here, read the…
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Post Office scandal: The Big Announcement, Badenoch vs Staunton, Project Zebra and Anna’s story.
Breaking Badenoch Hi A week is now becoming a very long time in this story. The last newsletter led on sacked Post Office chair Henry Staunton and his extraordinary interview with Oliver Shah in the Sunday Times. Staunton accused the government of asking him to slow down compensation payments, and said the Post Office had…
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Post Office scandal: Former Chair blasts Post Office “toxic” culture, Hollinrake fights back, racist codes investigation reports…
Staunton Spills Hi A huge scoop in the Sunday Times today for Oliver Shah, who secured an interview with the sacked Post Office chairman Henry Staunton. Staunton – if he’s telling the truth – confirms much of what we already know (but from a senior, insider’s position) and he reveals some shocking details. Not least…
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Post Office scandal: Govt approved PO inquiry bonuses, “Public interest” cases granted compensation and…
… Another Conviction Quashed! Well, hello there Last week I was Jeremy Kyle, this week I’m Vanessa. My TalkTV adventures are getting ever stranger. More on that later. First: Another conviction quashed Jacqueline Falcon becomes (by my calculation) the 101st Subpostmaster or Post Office worker to have her conviction overturned. It happened today at the…
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Post Office scandal: Disclosure, Capture, Compensation and a new investigation
plus: Where has all the money gone (again)? Hello! I said I didn’t think I’d be able to get another newsletter away this week, but I had a feeling things were going to stack up if I didn’t, so here goes: There was a parliamentary debate on the Post Office’s management culture on Thursday. I’ve…
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Post Office scandal: Teju hits the front page, more compensation horrors and Moorhead on Manoeuvres
plus: Scottish Subpostmasters’ Suffering Hi I’ve spent chunks of today and the weekend wading through the closing statements by the various parties to Phase 4 the Inquiry. I’ll save my reflections for the next newsletter, but I did want to draw your attention to a couple of things right now, not least Part 3 in…
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Post Office scandal: Altman, Aujard, Arbuthnot, Clarke, Davey, Grabiner, Lyons, Van den Bogerd and Vennells lined up for Phases 5 and 6
plus: CP closing statements put the boot in Hi The inquiry has today published its list of witnesses for Phases 5 and 6. Many of the people with serious questions to answer, including Brian Altman KC, Chris Aujard, Lord Grabiner, Jo Swinson, Alwen Lyons OBE, Alice Perkins, Angela van den Bogerd and Paula Vennells are…
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Post Office scandal: Private Eye podcast, Inquiry phase final week, more on Capture and Tony Collins speaks!
plus: Chris goes to Parliament Good evening I know I said I wouldn’t write until Friday, but if I did, that email would end up being several yards long. So here is an unplanned midweek special. The photo above shows indefatigable campaigner Chris Head after a meeting with the Post Office All Party Parliamentary Group…
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Post Office scandal: Staunton sacked, daylight robbery and IT Capture
and: a peek behind the compensation curtain Hello! It is 4.55pm and I am currently trying to cope with that creeping sense of sleep-deprivation familiar to anyone who works nights or shift patterns. I presented the TalkTV breakfast show this morning, and despite being very early to bed last night, it wasn’t quite early enough.…
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Post Office scandal: More Convictions Quashed!
plus: The Weeping Policeman Hello, dear secret emailers I am adopting the persona of an Editor-at-Large for this nerwsletter, as that’s what it seems my life has become. I am not comfortable with being a columnist – I would far rather be working on New Developments. That is coming, but, for the time being, if…
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