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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it would increase compensation to postal workers wrongly convicted of fraud in one of England’s biggest ever miscarriages of justices. Hundreds of Post Office workers were prosecuted between 2000 and 2014 after a software glitch in the IT system Horizon left holes in accounts. Some were sent to prison, others lost livelihoods and homes. Many went bankrupt, marriages were destroyed, and some died before their names were cleared. The government said it would launch a new compensation scheme for those who were the first to take legal a…