THE Post Office is “not fit to be a specialist reporting agency” after the Horizon scandal and has been stripped of that status in Scotland, MSPs have heard.

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has stepped-in to remove the centuries-old investigative powers from the Post Office thought to have played a key role in the miscarriages of justice.

Speaking in Holyrood, Ms Bain — Scotland’s chief prosecutor and legal adviser to the Scottish government — told MSPs: “Because of its fundamental and sustained failures in connection with Horizon cases in Scotland, I’ve decided that Post Office Limited is not fit to be a specialist reporting agency.