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Thursday, 30 June 2022

Another 19-and-a-half million pounds is being set aside for postmasters who played a crucial role in uncovering the Horizon computer system scandal.

It's for people wrongfully prosecuted for false accounting or theft from the late-1990s onwards because of faults in the software.

It's only a temporary move while a wider compensation scheme finishes its work.

Much of the money given out so far has been swallowed up in legal costs - but postal affairs minister and MP for Sutton and Cheam Paul Scully, says there may be more to come: