The announcement comes after lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates said redress schemes had ‘turned into quasi-kangaroo courts’.

More than £1 billion has been paid in financial compensation to subpostmasters wronged by the Horizon IT scandal, the ...

A retired County Durham headteacher who has spent nearly two decades volunteering to improve education in North Africa has been awarded a British Empire Medal. Eileen Lees from Bournmoor may have ...

Debra Waite who has fought for decades to improve housing standards and even helped shape military policy has been awarded an MBE.

£1bn of financial redress has now been paid out to Post Office Horizon Scandal victims, more than quadruple the amount paid out up to July 2024. There is still more to do. The work continues at pace ...

£1bn of financial redress has now been paid out to Post Office Horizon Scandal victims, more than quadruple the amount paid out up to July 2024. There is still more to do. The work continues at pace ...

More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial redress to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The government announced ...

Sixteen people from the North East have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 - take a look at the full list here.

Amazon Prime Video's hit series "Reacher" has added eight new actors to its cast ahead of beginning production on Season 4 ...

He started out in improv in San Francisco with The Committee, then appeared in ‘Blazing Saddles,’ ‘The Bob Newhart Show,’ two ...

Baruchel (also known as the original voice of Hiccup in the animated How To Train Your Dragon film trilogy) will star as ...