Post Office

Richard Ormerod, who owned a Post Office in Darlington, was cleared of three charges of fraud by false accounting, amounting to £31,097.

Gillian Harrison ran a Post Office in Stoke and she is among hundreds who were convicted of various offences based on evidence from the faulty IT system.

The branches affected by the strike are larger ones - often located on the high street - which are directly owned by the Post Office.