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and that is the highest number in a season since the met office started naming them in 2015. roads and train lines have also been affected. navteonhal is in nottinghamshire, where a major incident was declared after rising water from the river trent flooded more than 100 properties. driving into an island. this is worse than the year 2000. simon lives in gunthorpe. its one of the worst—affected places by the flooding in nottinghamshire. the situation is so bad that most vehicles cant...

A sub-postmaster says public support is needed for branches to recover after the Horizon scandal.

Tom Hedges ran the Hogsthorpe Post Office for 16 years before he was convicted of fraud and theft.

The Post Office was already mired in the Horizon IT scandal when its deeply- religious chief executive, Reverend Paula Vennells, agreed to take part in a panel discussion about business ethics.

Parmod Kalia gave the Post Office £22,000 of his own money after the faulty Horizon software made it seem money was missing from his accounts.

Janine Powell, now 52, served five months in prison after she was accused of stealing the money from her branch in Tiverton, Devon.

Fujitsu is the company behind Horizon, the faulty IT system used by the Post Office, which saw more than 700 sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted for crimes such as fraud.

Have been overturned. the government has previously said it will pursue it firm fujitsu — which designed the horizon software for compensation, if it is found to be at fault. lets hear now from some of the sub—postmasters whove been through this scandal. bbc breakfast invited a group of them onto their sofas this morning — heres a little of what they had to say. im tom hedges. i ran a post office at hoxton, which is about eight miles outside skegness. i was there for 16 years until i was d...

Overturned and claim compensation, mr sunak also said that 555 former postmasters who brought a group lawsuit will be offered an upfront payment of £75,000. more than 700 branch managers were given criminal convictions — only 93 of these convictions have been overturned. the government has previously said it will pursue the it firm fujitsu — which designed the horizon software — for compensation, if it is found to be at fault. lets hear now from some of the sub—postmasters whose lives w...