Leigh Castleton News Today

throughout the programme. its tuesday, the 9th of january. our main story. two formerjustice secretaries — one conservative, the other labour — are leading calls for the government to introduce legislation to quash the convictions of those caught up in the post office it scandal. the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, said various options were being looked at to speed up appeals and compensate the victims. he said more talks would be held today and he hoped to announced a s...

Sir robert buckland and lord falconer are both calling for an act of parliament that would simply declare all of the outstanding convictions void. say that all of those sub—postmasters were innocent. obviously that would be an extraordinary move, but i think if it were introduced to parliament it would be hired to find any mps who would be hired to find any mps who would oppose it. other options that stopped short of that in radicalism, making mass appeal is a bit easier. we also have the sugg...