and it is still chilly out there but today for some of you a little bit more clout and one or two rain showers. i will have the four for forecast and detail later on. it s wednesday the 10th of january. the prime minister will face questions in parliament today over the post office horizon it scandal which saw hundreds of innocent sub postmasters wrongly sentenced for fraud and theft. the former post office boss paula vennells yesterday bowed to public pressure to give up her cbe but more questions remain over the number of government contracts that are still being awarded to fujitsu, which supplied the faulty it system, and the delays in quashing convictions and awarding compensation. our political correspondent peter saull has the latest. it was an announcement that added insult to their injury, depicted in the recent itv drama. paula vennells has got the cbe. joking! but now the former boss of the post office has agreed to hand back her honour, adding that she was truly so
it s a scandal which has been years in the making and which made criminals of hundreds of innocent men and women across the uk but now it seems the post office horizon software cases could finally be resolved. a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years ago many have not yet been exonerated or had compensation paid. the issue came to the fore again in the last week after a story was dramatised on tv and today at prime minister s questions, rishi sunak, and as the governm
16 years, after a faulty it system made it look like money was missing. some went to prison and many lives and livelihoods were ruined. our political editor chris mason has more on the day s developments. four nights of drama on the telly after two decades of injustice. and, just one week later. we come to questions for the prime minister. the most high profile moment of the week at westminster. the start of prime minister s question time. and rishi sunak said. mr speaker this is one of the greatest miscarriages ofjustice in our nation s history. today i can announce that we will introduce new primary legislation, to make sure that those convicted as a as a result of the horizon scannedle are swiftly exonerated and compensated. this is the story of westminster transfixed like never before, about a scandal over 20 years in the making. it is a huge injustice, people lost their lives, their liberty, and their livelihood, and they have been waiting far too long for the truth forj
hello, i m balvinder gill. i was a sub postmaster until i was wrongly suspended by the post office and made bankrupt. what does the promise to clear and compensate victims of the post office scandal mean for me? balvinder gill is here along with four other subpostmasters. they ll give their reaction live tonight to today s news that they will finally be cleared but will everyone be helped? the minister responsible tells us the budget for compensation is £1 billion. is he sorry it s taken so long? it s terrible, i apologise to all those people, i think over 60 people, and this has been going on for over 20 years, probably 2a, 25 years now. who does he think should pay the bill taxpayers or fujitsu, who delivered the faulty horizon software? plus tonight, the man who was employed by the post office to investigate horizon software and who found it faulty as far back as 2013. good evening. it feels like theft but it was more like systematic abuse the words of this po
dominated the headlines for the past week. the prime minister has announced that new legislation will be brought in to make sure that those convicted in one of the biggest miscarriages ofjustice the uk has ever seen. who worked for the post office are swiftly exonerated and compensated. more than 700 sub postmasters received criminal convictions for fraud and false accounting, over a period of around 16 years, after it introduced a faulty it system. some went to prison and many were made bankrupt. we ll get reaction from one sub postmaster in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson reports. the post office told us over and over, you re the only one. that was a lie, actually. itv made a drama out of a crisis, a scandal that started more than 20 years ago came to public and political prominence. fewer than 100 sub postmasters have had their wrongful convictions overturned and there s pressure to clear more names and pay out more compensation. the prime mini