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Post Office are set to cut 100 jobs to fund subpostmaster payouts after the Horizon scandal. Senior managers were told that they would be affected on Wednesday, after acting chief executive Neil Brocklehurst sent a note sent to all staff, seen by the PA news agency.
He wrote: “The intention behind these proposed changes remains to create a more efficient team that can effectively deliver a sustainable future for the network, for postmasters and their communities. The intention is to rebase our costs to help fund the upcoming transformative change which aims to leave the Post Office on a more sustainable financial footing.
“It is critical that we continue to make progress in resetting Post Office for the future.” A public inquiry remains ongoing into the Horizon IT scandal, which involved hundreds of subpostmasters who were wrongly convicted of stealing.
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The scandal has been labelled Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice, after the company’s defective accounting system made it appear as though money was missing from their branches. It comes on the day it emerged first-look images have now been released alongside the official announcement of ITV’s upcoming phone hacking drama, The Hack, which comes from the Mr Bates vs the Post Office writers.
The official synopsis reads: “Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two real-life stories, the work of investigative journalist Nick Davies, played by David Tennant, who uncovered evidence of phone hacking at the News of the World, and running parallel, the story of the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, led by former Met Police detective chief superintendent Dave Cook, played by Robert Carlyle.”
It has also been confirmed that Mr Bates vs The Post Office star Toby Jones will be playing former editor in chief of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger.
