accepted

Alisdair Cameron, former chief financial officer at the Post Office, said that Fujitsu had been "difficult colleagues" and "it was accepted that Horizon, and the infrastructure on which it was built, was vulnerable".

To foot the steep bill in Indonesia, Prabowo has urged the country's tycoons to help, and accepted a funding offer from China.

The Court of Appeal has accepted that the "beliefs and motivation" of a defendant are too remote to constitute lawful excuse for causing damage to a property.

He said he accepted Akins's remorse was genuine, but said his failure to admit his guilt at an earlier stage prolonged Mrs Daniel's "heartache and grief".

The local authority said it had accepted the argument prior to the hearing and therefore did not defend itself in court.