Britain's largest banks have been positioned on alert over tons of of 'rogue' filings which seem to have been lodged at Companies House, the UK’s central company register.Sky News has obtained a be aware issued by UK Finance, the banking commerce affiliation, which warned its members that roughly 800 kinds regarding the discharging of monetary liabilities have been submitted at Companies House late final month. In the discover to banks - marked as "Urgent" when it was circulated final week - UK Finance mentioned it had alerted each Companies House and the Department for Business and Trade to the problem.Industry executives pointed to the opportunity of an tried fraud or hacking of the Companies House register, though the circumstances remained unclear on Sunday.UK Finance men...

The Post Office needs to be "handed over" to postmasters, its former chairman has stated, accusing the federal government of utilizing it as a "fig leaf" for stalling and evasion.In a letter seen solely by Sky News, Henry Staunton instructed the enterprise and commerce committee the federal government has "consistently hidden behind the Post Office's skirts, spinning their way away from trouble". He additionally accused the Department for Business and Trade of not proudly owning as much as their "failings" or doing "the decent thing" by sub-postmasters.Hundreds of sub-postmasters had been wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting based mostly on proof from defective Horizon IT software program between 1999 and 2015.Mr Staunton, who was sacked in January, wrote to Liam B...