Victims of a second IT scandal at the Post Office will be able to apply for interim compensation payouts expected to be around £10,000 within weeks.

It comes after an investigation by The i Paper found dozens of former sub-postmasters claimed they had lost money and, in some cases, were wrongly prosecuted while using a piece of software called Capture.

Capture was rolled out in the 1990s before the notorious Horizon computer system, which was linked to more than 900 wrongful prosecutions carried out by the Post Office . New Feature

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Officials at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) met with victims and their legal representatives in Whitehall on Wednesday.

Steve Marston, 69, who pleaded guilty to theft and false accounti

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