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Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office, prosecuting 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses--an average of one a week--for accounting errors actually caused by a faulty IT system named Horizon, provided to the Post Office by Fujitsu.

Intense attention will be paid to Fujitsu, the supplier of the controversial Horizon IT system responsible for flaws that caused accounting errors that were blamed on subpostmasters. On 16 January, witnesses from Fujitsu will take the stand, to face forensic questioning from the inquiry’s barristers.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office is not the only TV series to have helped renew public interest in an issue.

Norfolk MP George Freeman has issued a statement as he tries to avoid becoming embroiled in the Post Office scandal.

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

OpenUK has shared its fourth New Year’s Honours List for 2024, celebrating what it calls the ‘social influencers of open source’ in the UK. Known well at Computer Weekly, OpenUK is a not-for-profit ...

Fujitsu has been awarded work totalling £4.9billion since a December 2019 Court of Appeal ruling that its Horizon software had bugs, errors and defects.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office actor Toby Jones, 57, was spotted out running errands in Stockwell, London, on Wednesday, as the series became the most watched of the year.

The story of the miscarriage of justice committed against innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses has left the nation glued to its television screens and reignited intense debate surrounding the Post Office scandal.

Post Office ministers don’t get any better. After Sir Ed Davey refused to meet with aggrieved sub-postmasters and Jo Swinson tried to downplay the findings of a forensic accountant’s report into the Horizon computer system, telling the Commons “it is important we do not talk the Post Office down”, it is the turn of the current incumbent, Kevin Hollinrake, to say something stupid.