1. 1.2 million signatures and this happens..
    It comes after former minister David Davis called for Post Office branch managers involved in the scandal to be exonerated, saying they should be able to submit a "mass appeal".
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  2. Post Office minister wants compensation sorted by August, Tory MP says


    Earlier today, Tory MP and former cabinet minister Paul Scully spoke to the BBC about the position many of the Post Office scandal victims have been left in.
    "These are people's lives," he told BBC Two's Politics Live programme, saying some of those affected had now died, left the country, or even be "chased out of their villages".
    Pressed on when those wrongfully convicted may hope to receive the compensation they're entitled to, Scully said it was his understanding that Kevin Hollinrake, the current Post Office minister, "wants [that] done by August this year".
    Last September, the government announced that Post Office workers who've had convictions for theft and false accounting overturned would be offered £600,000 each in compensation.