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Scandal later today. Between 1999 and 2015 Hundreds Of Sub Postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faulty software. Its the first time shell publicly speak about her role in the scandal for nearly a decade. Our Business Correspondent emma simpson has the details. Its 2012, and Paula Vennells is in herfirst year as the new boss of the post office. Shes already spent half a decade with the business. And here shes on a visit to the shop floor. Retail is detail. I dont know whoever it was that said that, but it is that. And you come to places like this and you find out the Little Things that make the operation much more efficient. Back then, the post office was haemorrhaging money. The pressure is on to turn things around. But did she put profits ....
For the Miscarriage Ofjustice of Sub Postmasters and she broke down in tears under questioning. The horizon it software wrongly said money was missing from branch accounts and more than 900 Sub Postmasters were convicted. Ms vennells was Chief Executive from 2012 to 2019 and today started giving evidence to the inquiry. Among the questions to answer what did she know about the ability of others to remotely access the accounts . For years the post office denied this was possible. The inquiry s seen a transcript of a call with a Senior Lawyer in 2013 which suggests that Paula Vennells had been briefed about a covert operations team. Also, did she mi ....
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Storm henk brought torrential rain and left widespread disruption in its wake. now that the waters are receding, our midlands correspondent phil mackie has been back to see some of the people caught up in the floods. remember this nick lupton s house surrounded by floods and defended by the wall he built? the film we took last week has been viewed more than 30 million times. today, the house is attached to the mainland again. welcome. glad to see it so dry, at last. yes, dry is good. after being stranded inside for a week, the waters receded and we got to see the defenses close up. you can see previously we had a little bit of damp coming up the wall. oh, it s always a relief when the river goes down. we re into the recovery now. there s a fewjobs to do, even though the wall is keeping it away from the house. during storm henk, a torrent of water began pouring in. but the walls kept it out. nick built his flood wall 30 centimetres higher ....