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IT scandal exposes legal rule that made it easy for Post Office to prosecute the innocent
Lawyers call for changes to digital evidence rule that made it easier for the Post Office to ‘bamboozle courts’ and make subpostmasters pay a heavy price for its IT failings
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Two separate events in 1999 have become inextricably linked in the process of destroying the lives of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK.
Although unrelated, together they were to have a devastating impact on law-abiding people, criminalising them due to a faulty IT system and a legal rule that denied them a fair trial.
Woman still has nightmares over haunting deepfake porn images using her holiday snaps
Writer and poet Helen Mort was horrified to find out someone had uploaded non-sexual images from her social media accounts to a porn website and editing them to make them explicit
Writer and poet Helen Mort found her photos had been manipulated online (Image: Helen Mort / BBC)
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Britain Mourns a Cherished Education Exchange Program Ended by Brexit
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to replace the E.U.-wide Erasmus program with a national version, but former participants and university officials say the decision is shortsighted.
Brexit opponents demonstrated in London in June 2016. Young people overwhelmingly voted for Britain to remain an E.U. member.Credit.Andrew Testa for The New York Times
Published Dec. 29, 2020Updated Jan. 4, 2021
After his university in Scotland shut down in the spring because of the coronavirus, forcing him to study online from home, Jack Boag kept up his spirits by dreaming of what awaited him in the coming academic year: a semester abroad at the University of Amsterdam.
102million disposable face masks being thrown away each week in UK
Nearly one in five people (18%) think that disposable masks should go in the recycling bin
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A new campaign to encourage the nation to switch to reusable facemasks has been launched today, as research for North London Waste Authority (NLWA) reveals that 102 million single-use facemasks are being disposed of each week in the UK.