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The head of an inquiry into the scandal calls for action to stop compensation payments being delayed.

Experiences of paul _ future very bad now. the devastating experiences of paul price, _ future very bad now. the devastating experiences of paul price, talking - experiences of paul price, talking to me a little earlier on todays programme. its been described as the most widespread miscarriage ofjustice in uk history — the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub—postmasters, who were accused of stealing money when in fact a new it system was faulty. today, the head of the public inquiry has ...

What has emerged is a patchwork quilt of compensation schemes. and unfortunately, it is a patchwork quilt with some holes in it. im sure that if the government and the post office were setting out now to devise a scheme to deliver compensation to all those who have suffered losses, there would not be three different schemes but, rather, one comprehensive scheme, which would be capable of delivering appropriate compensation for all applicants. that is the chair of the inquiry. one of the victims,...

Schemes, without getting full and fair compensation, and teacher himself said today that what we got is a patchwork quilt of compensation schemes with holes in them, rather than one unified scheme. he had the option of saying, right, left from it all out and start again and lets eckley start from the first principles, but he decided not to do that —— right, lets started all over and actually start. he decided to work from the least worst option we have got at the moment. but there is still a...

Hundreds of victims of the Post Office IT scandal face delays to compensation payouts, the chair of the public inquiry into the scandal has warned.

To pack up their belongings. this former sub—postmistress and her family are about to be evicted. her landlords selling up. seema misra was wrongly prosecuted for stealing from her post office. she was pregnant when sent to prison in 2010. financially, we lost everything. we lost the business, we lost the property in london. there is no price tag to it. her conviction�*s now quashed, but shes still waiting for her full compensation. its getting urgent now. im scared, to be honest, im really,...

Workweek, but today on sunday we are absolutely wanting to follow this for more flash flooding concerns there in the northeast. >> is there some connection between the flooding in the northeast and the heat in the south and the southwest? >> yeah, there is, thats a great question. there is a couple of sort of connective tissues here. the first is this high pressure that we have been talking about. the heat dome thats here. and so thats sort of -- it has a circulation like that. it brings the hot...

Recently has been allowed to expire but there are plenty more were going to look at hear in a second. he said the skies were clearing just a little bit. you can see that here on the radar. theres another slug of moisture moving east to philadelphia and its also pulling out to sea as well. hopefully that does so quickly. you can see the watches and warnings. the area most under the gun right now for flooding is eastern new england from boston up through new hampshire. again, these areas saw disas...

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