As shocking ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office shed light on the plight of hundreds of sub-postmasters, we take a look at those operating in the background of the catastrophic series of events
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Ordained priest Paula Vennells was last seen at her multi-million pound home in Bedfordshire last Friday
She made £4.5million in seven years, got a CBE and had boardroom jobs with Dunelm and Morrisons
Mrs Vennells has now quit all her public roles, including with the Church of England after the scandal
Calls for her to be investigated as 39 postmasters wrongly convicted of stealing amid flaws of IT system
Part-time priest Paula Vennells (left), 62, stands accused of covering up the scandal and forcing postmasters into a High Court battle. Alice Perkins earned £100k a year as chairman from 2011-2015.
The Covid-19 vaccine made by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is likely to be given the go ahead this week by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency and start being administered to 15 million people in the highest risk category from January 4 onwards, multiple sources reported on Sunday.
The minister put in charge of the vaccine roll out, Iraqi-born Nadhim Zahawi, tipped off The Sun that the MHRA might give the green light as early as Monday.
Pascal Soriot, the French chief executive of AstraZeneca, told the Sunday Times from his home in Sydney where he has been spending Christmas with his family: “We think we have figured out the winning formula and how to get efficacy that, after two doses, is up there with everybody else.”