Overview
- Brown said she will wear the honour in tribute to subpostmasters whose lives were devastated by the faulty Horizon system.
- The government confirmed her compensation claim has reached the end of the scheme process and been settled.
- She ran Annfield Plain Post Office from 1985 to 2003, took part in the group legal action led by Sir Alan Bates, and estimates she and her late husband covered about £100,000 in non-existent shortfalls.
- Brown described this Christmas as her first in 26 years without worries after receiving her settlement.
- The inquiry found 59 victims contemplated suicide and 10 attempted it, with a real possibility that 13 people took their own lives, and it recommended redress for affected families.