And mistresses have been told the post office wont contest appeals against their convictions for offences such as theft and false accounting. A Computer System has been blamed for a scandal which saw staff wrongly accused when cash disappeared from post office branches. Our business correspondent, katy austin has the story. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, bye bye. Bye. Its been overturned. This was the moment seema heard the conviction that had turned her life upside down would likely be quashed. She became a sub postmistress in 2005. Five years later, a jury found her guilty of theft after a discrepancy was found in her accounts. She was sent to prison. I was pregnant as well that time with my second son, and it was a pregnancy we had been waiting for so many years, i couldnt even enjoy that. The building is no longer in use, but it was here in west byfleet in surrey that seema used to be a sub postmistress. She was just one of hundreds of sub postmasters and postm istresses across t
Tonight at ten shock in america, as donald trump tests positive for coronavirus, just a month before the president ial election. The first lady has also tested positive, and both are self isolating at the white house. The president is said to have mild symptoms. He continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. Weve talked a number of times this morning. I wear masks when needed, when needed i wear masks. I dont wear masks like him. It comes just days after the first president ial debate, where mr trump once again downplayed the need, forface masks. And his democratic rivaljoe biden has spoken for the first time, saying this serves to underline just
how seriously the American People must take the disease. Theres been extensive Contact Tracing across the white house after the president s diagnosis. Also tonight. Hundreds of students at Northumbria University in newcastle test positive for covid. Just 10 showed any symptoms. Theres three of us living here at the moment, two