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Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells has been stripped of her CBE over her part in the Horizon IT scandal.
An independent inquiry is currently being held into the scandal, which hit the headlines again over Christmas thanks to the ITV drama ’Mr Bates vs the Post Office.”
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