UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 06:10 UTC

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Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years

British scientists are “over the moon” to be back in the EU’s flagship science research p…

Post Office forks out eye-watering £600m to keep using faulty Horizon system despite IT scandal and decision to ditch its creator Fujitsu 10 years ago!

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 16:45 UTC

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Fujitsu initially won a £548m contract to provide Post Office's money-handling IT system in 1999. Yet to date the Post Office has paid £2.5bn for Horizon - and it's still mounting.

Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 05:45 UTC

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Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 05:10 UTC

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Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

Former sub-postmaster is SUING the Post Office and Fujitsu over the Horizon IT scandal

found 2025 › Mar › 20 (Thu) @ 06:35 UTC

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Lee Castleton, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, is the first individual to sue the two organisations in the wake of the controversy.

First individual Horizon victim to sue Post Office

found 2025 › Mar › 19 (Wed) @ 10:40 UTC

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Lee Castleton has started a legal claim against his former employer over the Horizon scandal.

Post Office scandal victim offered payout after death

found 2025 › Mar › 07 (Fri) @ 06:52 UTC

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Widow of Horizon scandal victim urges government to speed up compensation payouts

The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 18:42 UTC

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I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...

Last…

‘I’m a pain in the backside ... an awkward sod’: Alan Bates on love, justice and the Post Office scandal

found 2024 › Dec › 23 (Mon) @ 08:49 UTC

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He became a household name after ITV turned Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice into a drama. He reflects on his fight for compensation, turning down an OBE – and getting married on Richard Bran…

Sir Alan Bates reveals he STILL hasn't received any compensation from the Post Office despite inquiry into the Horizon scandal and being knighted for his heroic efforts for other victims

found 2024 › Dec › 22 (Sun) @ 23:22 UTC

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Sir Alan Bates has revealed he still hasn't received any compensation from the Post Office, despite an inquiry into the Horizon scandal and being knighted.