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Post Office costs defending itself at Horizon inquiry exceed £130m
Post Office executives have spent more than £130m of taxpayers’ money defending the company at the long-running inquiry into the wrongful prosecution of more than 900 workers, figures show.
The company’s annual report reveals that the company’s legal and running costs from the start of the inquiry in September 2020 …
Peter Mandelson ‘to be announced as UK’s next US ambassador’
Peter Mandelson is set to become Britain’s next ambassador to the US, the first time a politician has been appointed to the role for almost half a century.
It is understood that Keir Starmer is about to announce that Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and European commissioner for trade, …
Tinselled bowling duos hand England fresh resolution for new Ashes year
Fast bowlers are the Formula One engines of a cricket team: purringly powerful when they want to be, painfully vulnerable when bits fall off. When a partnership works, and sticks – Lillee and Thompson, Ambrose and Walsh, Wasim and Waqar – they carry the team on their shoulders. When that …
Usyk and Fury engage in spiky stare-off before Riyadh heavyweight showdown
Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury gazed at each other with menacing intensity for nearly a dozen unbroken minutes as Thursday’s evening press conference in Riyadh culminated in a face-off that tested the nerve and audacity of both men. It was an eye-watering ordeal for the fighters, who meet in the …
Canada’s government in shambles after Trump tariff threats – what can it do next?
One person, at least, was clearly delighted by the political upheaval triggered in
by this week’s sudden resignation of the country’s deputy prime minister.Chrystia Freeland, who stood down on Monday, had clashed with
over the appropriate response tostiff …
Elon Musk debuts grip on Trump White House by sinking spending bill
Bill Beaumont could take over as RFU chair with Ilube on brink over pay row
Sir Bill Beaumont could be parachuted into the Rugby Football Union as interim chair in the event Tom Ilube falls on his sword amid the botched handling of the executive pay scandal engulfing the game.
The current RFU chair Ilube and Bill Sweeney, the chief executive, were due to be …
Liaison committee day. This was Kier Time. He’d dreamed of it for most of his life
An appearance before the liaison committee – the supergroup of select committee chairs – is usually something that strikes fear into any prime minister. Sleepless nights. Panic attacks. Boris Johnson was so phobic that he frequently binned his invitations to show up. Not that it did much good. He was …
‘These water companies have got a damn nerve’: anger in England as 58,000 homes lose supply while bills surge
“It feels awful,” said Samantha Hargreaves as she trundled her bottle-laden trolley past queues of cars waiting for drinking water in an Asda car park. It was the second year in a row that her water supply had been cut off shortly before Christmas, and she was loading up her …
Four teenagers jailed for Bristol mistaken-identity murders
Four teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering two boys in a case of mistaken identity in Bristol.
Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were attacked with machetes in the Knowle West area of the city on the evening of 27 January.
Their attackers – Riley Tolliver, 18, …