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• Ten Demands of Julia Neuberger
• Article Of the Day - Quote of the day - Spelling Bee etc
• Digital TV
• Are pensions political? - Ken Savage GLPA
• Attitudes must alter  from Senior London
• Humour - your funny stories
• Blind Pensioner of 93 vows to fight on for a hot meal AND her independence.
• Grandparenting - News, views, features - on all things to do with Grandparenting - including grandchildren!!
• The case for experience - by Tony Benn
  reproduced with thanks to Greater London Pensioners' Association and Tony Benn)
• Reminiscence project  For most people the idea of becoming aged is something to be held in dread. Many have little or no communication with the elderly, apart from helping an `old lady' on or oft the bus.   Are YOU in such a project?  See the poem
• United Nations World Assembly on Ageing 2002 - Tony Carter sent us this report after he attended the Assembly in Madrid.
• United Nations Principles for Older Persons
• United opposition to further means-testing

• Sutherland Report   Royal Commission on Long Term Care - a brief extract from the report by Sir William Sutherland

  Features - Stories from the Forums

• Aspirations of a State Pensioner  Respect for our Political System by the Elderly would be restored during the coming year:- WHEN 

• Local Heroes:  Bread & Butter Heroes - by Wallsend Pensioners Association
  Do you know any other Local Heroes?

• What's in a Name? by Bill Bowman of Wallsend Pensioners Association

• A Guide to Setting up a Senior Citizens Forum - extracts from the Booklet by Caroline Nash and Tony Carter

• Women are Penalised - How the pension system fails women.

• The Southwark Declaration a little booklet records the details of a conference organised by Southwark Pensioners Action Group. 

• For latest pension level and a look at previous 5 years 

• Is Anyone Listening? to the pensioners plea for Retirement with Dignity

• Some Pensions Organisations  a variety of Pensions organisations mainly for those with private pensions or occupational pensions.  Some will help you to choose your IFA - others are there for your pension protection.

• A Senior's Observations and a Word of Warning!!  This senior has uncovered some alarming trends in modern society and has taken the time to write this to warn fellow seniors.  She has given a "pen name" in case of reprisals.

• A brief history of the Pensioners Movement -  Pensioner poverty has always been a campaigning issue throughout the 20th Century  - even more so today!

• Britain is bottom of the pension league  - Why am I not surprised?