The Northern Ireland Assembly's new standards commissioner has stepped down a week after being appointed.Mark McEwan, a former assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), ...

Emma SimpsonBusiness correspondentBBCActor Will Mellor (left) portrayed former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton in a TV drama about the Post Office scandalFormer sub-postmaster Lee Castleton is suing the Post Office and ...

Lucy HookerBusiness reporterGetty ImagesOwnership of the Post Office could be put into the hands of its postmasters, the government has suggested, as it launched a public consultation over the ...

Victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have urged the prime minister to "get his act together" and sort out compensation for sub-postmasters still fighting to be made ...

Kear took over with Wales at a low ebb, having lost all three of their games in the 2014 European Championship.Although his tenure was marked by having limited numbers ...

A journalist has won her case against Australia's national broadcaster, with a court ruling she was unfairly sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.Antoinette Lattouf ...

Getty ImagesO'Neill said Lyons had 'failed to show the correct leadership'Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill has accused a Stormont minister of "inflaming tensions" over recent trouble and urged ...

Sir Alan Bates has accused the government of putting forward a "take it or leave it" offer of compensation amounting to less than half of his claim.The former subpostmaster, ...

Accounting giant EY is being investigated over its audits of the Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018.The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), ...

Royal Mail should only deliver second-class letters and parcels every other weekday and not on Saturdays to protect the future of the UK's postal industry, the industry regulator has ...

BBCHow did one single social media post, taken down within hours for being false, still end up being viewed millions of times and presented as credible evidence about the ...

The Post Office has spent £132m of taxpayer money defending itself at the inquiry into the wrongful conviction of hundreds of sub-postmasters, according to the latest available figures.The revelation ...