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Wrongly convicted subpostmasters still awaiting compensation one year on

Post Office workers implicated in the Horizon IT scandal have said they are no closer to gaining compensation a year after the first convictions were overturned. Neil Hudgell, the lawyer leading compensation negotiations, has called for cases to be ...

23 Apr 2022 at 10:25

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Legislation on way to cover non-disclosure issues that arose in cervical check controversy

The Minister for Health said that non-disclosure issues which arose in the cervical check screening controversy will be legislated for to prevent it from happening again. Stephen Donnelly said new legislation will address the negligence issues and ...

11 Mar 2022 at 11:33

Kerry Washington shares 2021 highlights with fans

Kerry Washington has shared some of her highlights of 2021 and thanked her fans for being with her “through everything”. The US actress, 44, known for films including Django: Unchained, admitted there had been both low points and high points to ...

30 Dec 2021 at 21:25

Victims of contaminated blood scandal should receive interim payments – report

Victims of the contaminated blood scandal should receive interim payments, report says

Victims of the contaminated blood scandal – some of whom are nearing the end of their lives – should receive interim payments of at least £100,000 each, according to a new plan sent to ministers. Sir Robert Francis QC, who has led a review of ...

07 Jun 2022 at 20:20

Post Office ‘doing all it can’ to help sub-postmasters hit by Horizon scandal

The Post Office is “doing all that it can” to help those wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting, an inquiry has heard. Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses (SPMs) were falsely prosecuted ...

14 Oct 2022 at 15:20

Infected blood victims and bereaved partners will receive £100,000 in October

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will receive interim compensation payments of £100,000 by the end of October, the Government has confirmed. Survivors and bereaved partners will receive letters this week confirming the ...

22 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Features

Vicky Phelan and her phenomenal legacy that should never have been necessary

On a July day back in July 2018, my work took me to Glenties, and as I often did when in that part of the county, I went into the Highlands Hotel for lunch. The MacGill Summer School was in full swing, and while that wasn’t my reason ...

18 Nov 2022 at 18:33

Report to set out details on compensation for victims of infected blood scandal

Details on compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal is expected to be set out in a report. Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. An ...

05 Apr 2023 at 02:45

Johnson regrets blanket apology for partygate and calls inquiry a ‘put-up job’

Boris Johnson has said he regrets issuing a blanket apology for the partygate scandal, suggesting the inquiry was a “bit of a put-up job” and that he had nothing personally to say sorry for. The former prime minister insisted ...

10 Oct 2024 at 22:54

More than £13bn set aside for infected blood and Horizon scandal victims

Billions of pounds of funding will be set aside to compensate the victims of two major public scandals, Rachel Reeves has announced in the Budget. Some £11.8 billion will be set aside to compensate those impacted by the ...

30 Oct 2024 at 15:44

Reverend who called for Welby to quit ‘pleased’ he has taken ‘responsibility’

A reverend behind the petition calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign said he is pleased Justin Welby has been able to “take responsibility” for his role in the John Smyth abuse scandal. Mr Welby announced ...

12 Nov 2024 at 15:50

Lives ‘still blighted’ by contaminated blood

Thousands of lives “continue to be blighted” by the infected blood scandal, a charity has said, as victims and their loved ones spoke out about the lasting effects of the scandal. Infected people and their relatives ...

20 May 2024 at 08:11

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