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Lawyers representing sub-postmasters say their physical and mental health was damaged by the Horizon IT scandal.

After Mr Bates vs The Post Office came the Business Committee vs The Post Office, and MPs packed the room to see how well the real-life witnesses played themselves. How many MPs? Twelve. Thirty-two. Four thousand and six. Forgive the confusion but the computer I’m writing on was made by Fujitsu.

One watery cheer for Paula Vennells handing back her CBE. Having done the wrong thing for so many years, the former chief executive of the Post Office deserves no credit for finally discovering her conscience. Where do you think she found it? Maybe in the vault where she stashes the £3.7million she earned over six years in the top job, including salary and bonuses. Quite astonishingly, Vennells the vicar was still receiving pay rises and a bonus as the Horizon IT scandal continued to depriv...

Jo Hamilton of South Warnborough first approached me in 2009. Jo is warm and friendly and transparently honest. Her story was incredible. I did, actually, believe it (because you can’t do otherwise with Jo), but she was by then a convicted criminal. And now we know that there were hundreds and hundreds of others like her, all told they were the only ones, all pillars of their communities, all hounded and humiliated in front of those same communities.

>> sergeant vincent gos lynn jr., a father of five had served in the army for seven years as a quarter master and mechanic. >> did vince ever express to you what it meant to serve his country? >> he loved it. >> to hamilton, his cousin. as he explains it, they were much more than that. >> were you like a big brother to vince? >> yeah. with him, i dont know, weighed bond. he had an outgoing personality. he had a crazy little grin when he was doing something mischievous. >> and he recalls the misc...

A way to provoke a duel with the winner or one of his friends as a way to counteract the democratic loss they would have an aristocratic win and be proving themselves leaders to the public and theyd go to the papers and describe the duel, describe how they were leadership material. essentially a duel was the way of saying next time around vote for me. which is extraordinary considering theyre illegal. >> the most famous duel we know about is burr-hamilton. was that motivated by these kinds of co...