MEDIA
MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
The Director of Silver Voices, Dennis Reed, can be contacted for comment on any issue impacting older people by emailing dennis.reed@silvervoices.co.uk. Silver Voices is the only independent, UK-wide membership organisation representing older people, and our membership numbers and influence are growing fast.
RECENT MEDIA ACTION
RECENT MEDIA QUOTES/MENTIONS/INTERVIEWS
9/1/26: inews: Eye Tests for Older Drivers: https://inews.co.uk/news/94-drive-better-teenagers-test-prove-4151165
7/1/26: Daily Express: Eye Tests for Older Drivers: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2154206/pensioners-off-uk-roads-eye-test
4/1/26: Mail on Sunday: Council Parking Fines: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15431831/Motorists-782-million-council-parking-fines-charges-increase.html
3/1/26: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Opinion Column): Social Care Crisis:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2153242/we-must-end-crisis-social
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2152880/keir-starmer-ordered-get-grip
2/1/26: Daily Express: Cobalt Poisoning Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news
2/1/26: LBC Interview: Worker/Pensioner Income Arguments
1/1/26: Daily Express: WASPI Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2152138/waspi-compensation-letters
31/12/25: Daily Express: Digital ID: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2151719/labour-pensioners-digital-id
31/12/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Winter Heating: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2151315/triple-lock-pensioners-cold-homes
29/12/25: Daily Mail: GP Waits increasing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15417691/Labours-GP-wait-shame-300-000-people-waited-month-appointments-autumn.html
26/12/25: LBC Boxing Day Interview with Tom Swarbrick on Pensions
21/12/25: Sunday Times: Christmas Bonus (no link)
19/12/25: LBC Interview: Ageing Society
17/12/25: Daily Express: Free Licences for Over 75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2147029/bbc-royal-charter-free-tv-licence-pensioner
15/12/25: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Flu Vaccines and Care Homes: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/14/thousands-care-home-residents-not-vaccinated-superflu-jab/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
14/12/25: GB News: Debate on Intergenerational Divide
11/12/25: Daily Mail: Resident Doctors’ Strike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15372067/Warning-people-die-militant-doctors-set-walkout-FIVE-days-amid-surge-mutant-flu-seen-surgeries-cancelled-hospitals-ban-visitors-schools-closed.html
11/12/25: Daily Express: Reform UK and the Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2144749/reform-uk-state-pension-triple-lock
7/12/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock Attack: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20251208/281509347505610
1/12/25: Daily Express: Taxi Fares and Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2140724/rachel-reeves-budget-tax-taxi
1/12/25: Daily Telegraph: Virgin Media Landlines Fine:
1/12/25: Daily Express: Age Related Personal Allowances: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2140413/rachel-reeves-must-do-one
29/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel Payment Frozen Threshold: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2139999/rachel-reevess-cruel-budget-means
28/11/25 Daily Express: Triple Lock and Farage: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2139556/state-pension-triple-lock
26/11/25: Budget Day Coverage: Daily Express and LBC and GB News Interviews:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2138475/budget-2025-live-rachel-reeves
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2138581/rachel-reeves-given-pensions-ultimatum
25/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story) : Winter Heating Worries:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2138057/pensioners-winter-heating-budget
24/11/25: Yahoo News: Budget and Pensioners: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/why-half-a-million-state-pensioners-may-start-paying-income-tax-after-the-budget/ar-AA1R3CvR?ocid=BingNewsSerp
24/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page/ Opinion Column/ Leader Comment): Frozen Tax Threshold
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2137570/rachel-reeves-has-declared-war
24/11/25: BBC Radio 5 Nicky Campbell Show: Triple Lock
21/11/25: Daily Express: Landlines Switchover: Group says older Brits in ‘danger’ as landlines being switched off | UK | News | Express.co.uk
21/11/25: LBC Interview: Means Testing the State Pension
21/11/25: inews: BBC Licence Enforcement: BBC missing out on £1.1bn in licence fees – because people won’t answer their doors
21/11/25: The Times (subscription only): National Insurance and Older People: Millions of pensioners face ‘retirement tax’ admin headache
21/11/25: GB News Interview on Times article above
20/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Triple Lock and Pensioner Hardship:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2136148/millions-more-britons-face-hardship-pension
20/11/25: inews: Taxing the State Pension: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/struggling-retirees-fear-state-pension-taxed-4053240
20/11/25: The Times (subscription only): Retirement Tax: https://www.thetimes.com/money/pensions/article/millions-of-pensioners-face-having-to-file-retirement-tax-returns-online-62qr38gkz
18/11/25: Radio London: Interview on Freedom Pass (also covered on BBC TV London News)
17/11/25: Daily Express: Tax Thresholds: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2134637/Reeves-tax-thresholds-warning-pensioners
14/11/25: Daily Mirror: Resident Doctors’ Strike: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/doctors-strike-nhs-tells-public-36241759
12/11/25: Daily Telegraph: Travel and Digital Exclusion: https://www.telegraph.
12/11/25: BBC Radio 4: You and Yours: Apps and Digital Exclusion
11/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Opinion Column: Anti-pensioner Tax Measures:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2132137/labour-will-pay-price-rachel
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20251111/281569476992485
10/11/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Tim Davie Resignation: Tim Davie resignation is the BBC’s ‘last chance’ or millions will stop fee | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
8/11/25: The Sun: Budget and Pensioners (no link available)
8/11/25: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): NHS and Net Zero: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/07/inside-nhs-insane-net-zero-push-labour-miliband/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
5/11/25: Daily Express: Chancellor’s Speech: Pensioners ‘targets’ as Reeves speech hints tax hikes | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
4/11/25: Daily Express: Tax and Older People- Warning to Chancellor including Opinion Column:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2129586/pensioners-scapegoats-budget-reeves
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2129293/rachel-reeves-pensioner-warning-Budget-speech
28/10/25: The Times: Cost of Winter Fuel Policy (no link available)
28/10/25: Daily Express: State Pension Age Rises: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20251028/281608131669988
27/10/25: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Rise in Operations Abroad: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/26/record-numbers-give-up-nhs-healthcare-abroad/
26/10/25: Sunday Mirror: Freeview TV: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/poll-warns-scrapping-major-lifeline-36132446
25/10/25: Daily Telegraph: NHS Digital First: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/24/emergency-go-online-before-going-to-ae-nhs-urges-patients/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
24/10/25: GB News: ID Cards and Disabled Pensioners: Keir Starmer ‘risks shutting out disabled people’ as campaigners rally against Digital ID
23/10/25: Daily Express: Taxing the State Pension (no link available)
22/10/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Dennis Reed Opinion Column): Further Attacks on Triple Lock
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2124303/triple-lock-attack-think-tanks
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2124245/kemi-badenoch-defends-triple-lock
19/10/25: inews: DWP State Pension Overpayments: https://inews.co.uk/news/dwp-overpayment-errors-leave-pensioner-over-100m-debt-3987576
16/10/25: Daily Express: Inadequacy of the State Pension: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2121855/britons-state-pension
15/10/25:GB News: National ID Cards: Digital ID: Pensioners ‘risk becoming second-class citizens’ under Keir Starmer’s scheme plus GB News Live interview
15/10/25: Daily Express Front Page Story: Lower Tax Threshold: Rachel Reeves has been hit by a triple humiliation | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
14/10/25: Daily Express: BBC Strictly and IPTV: BBC blasted for treating older viewers with ‘arrogant disdain’ in Strictly row | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
9/10/25: Daily Express: GPs and Safety Concerns: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2118852/GP-NHS-health-labour
6/10/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock Fringe Meeting: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2117574/state-pension-triple-lock-dennis-reed
4/10/25: Daily Mail: GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15151905/England-quiet-busy-GP-practices-appointments.html
30/9/25: Daily Express: Old Age Tax Trap: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2114801/rachel-reeves-old-age-tax
29/9/25: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): GPs and Online Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/29/gps-strike-if-too-easy-to-get-appointment-nhs-bma/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
Plus GB News Interview on above subject
26/9/25: inews: Digital ID: https://inews.co.uk/news/three-problems-starmers-new-digital-id-create-3939887
25/9/25: Daily Telegraph: Ryan Air and Digital Boarding Cards: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/24/ryanair-accused-of-disgraceful-attitude-to-older-passengers/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
24/9/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel Payments will not be Inflation-Proofed: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2112396/pensioners-face-fresh-winter-fuel
23/9/25: The Sun: Cost of Living and Pensioners: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/36800803/retirees-worse-off-pension-boost-avoid-hit/
21/9/25: Sunday Express (Front Page Story): Welfare Benefits and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111129/kemi-badenoch-triple-lock-pension
17/9/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Old Age Tax Trap: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2109348/pensions-income-tax-2027
17/9/25: inews: Bank Spying Powers and Pension Credit: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/fears-draconian-new-rules-pension-credit-3919366
9/9/25: Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Star (and more): BBC Axes Telephone Polling:
6/9/25: MSN/GB News: Mental Health of Older People: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/inside-the-heartbreaking-crisis-engulfing-britain-s-elderly-as-labour-turns-back-on-pensioners/ar-AA1LYMgY
4/9/25: Daily Express: Compulsory Eye Tests for Older Drivers: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2104524/labour-mandatory-eye-tests-older-drivers
28/8/25: Daily Express Front Page Story: Energy Prices: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2101042/labour-unleash-new-war-pensioners
27/8/25: Daily Express: Torsten Bell and the Budget: 7 crazy policies backed by the Labour minister writing Rachel Reeves’s budget | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
25/8/25: Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and Daily Mail: Use of AI for Care Assessments: Outrage as cash-strapped council uses ‘pensioners as lab rats’ with AI led care decision | UK | News | Express.co.uk
25/8/25: Daily Express: Post Offices Opinion Piece: Labour warned against Post Office cuts due to fears over impact on pensioners | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
24/8/25: Sunday Telegraph and the Independent: Winter Fuel Payments and Disabled People: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/bills/energy/labours-winter-fuel-raid-hit-600000-disabled-pensioners/?msock id=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
21/8/25: Daily Mirror: Social Care Reform Questions: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/wes-streeting-urged-clarify-plans-35764941
21/8/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Energy Prices: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2098006/households-pay-300-more-energy-price-cap
19/8/25: LBC Interview: State Pension Age Rise and Daily Express:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2097211/Labour-retirement-70-review
18/8/25: Daily Mail: Ambulance Waits: Now thousands give up trying to get an ambulance to A&E and ‘are finding their own way to hospital’ | Daily Mail Online also covered by the Guardian 19/8/25
17/8/25: Daily Mail: Hospital Maintenance Backlog: Most run-down NHS hospitals named and shamed – as staggering £14billion is needed to fix crumbling wards that pose a ‘catastrophic’ risk to patients | Daily Mail Online
16/8/25: Daily Mirror: Free to Air TV Ministerial Commitment: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brits-must-access-free-air-35728929
16/8/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Save Post Offices: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2095998/post-offices-daily-express-campaign
15/8/25: BBC News: Oyster Card Free Travel: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79l77p3xj9o
14/8/25: Daily Express: DWP Bereaved Scam: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2094505/dwp-death-grieving
14/8/25: inews: Winter Fuel Payment Scam : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-new-winter-fuel-payment-scam-text-targeting-pensioners-and-how-to-spot-it/ar-AA1Kvusi?ocid=BingNewsSerp
13/8/25: Daily Telegraph: Councils and AI Bots: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/news/councils-using-ai-bots-to-answer-phone-calls-tax/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
12/8/25: Daily Mirror (Front Page Story) and Daily Express: Over 70s Compulsory Eye Tests for Driving:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/major-driving-laws-licences-overhaul-35712483
11/8/25: Interviews BBC News, Radio 2 and Yahoo News: Over 70s Compulsory Eye Tests
10/8/25: Daily Mail: BUPA Profits From Dentistry: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-14985627/Fury-Bupa-dental-profit-doubles-19m.html
9/8/25: inews: Care Homes TV Licence Victory (subscription only article): https://inews.co.uk/news/pensioners-win-battle-bbc-shocking-167-licence-fee-increase-3843459
9/8/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock: ‘Keep your hands off our pensions’ warning as rise of £478 predicted | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
8/8/25: LBC Panel Discussion: Pensions and Benefits (live radio)
6/8/25 Daily Mail: Taxing the State Pension (subscription only article):
5/8/25: Daily Mail and Daily Express: Virtual GP Appointments:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2090864/NHS-GP-appointment-phone-online-digital
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14969599/rise-GP-consultations-carried-remotely.html
4/8/25: Daily Mail: Alan Milburn and Private Equity: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14966645/Labour-grandee-Alan-Milburn-urged-step-aside-advising-private-equity-sharks-swooped-NHS-dentists-millions-struggle-appointments.html
4/8/25: inews: BBC Licence Threatening Letters: https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/widower-sent-threatening-letters-over-tv-licence-fee-bbc-amnesty-3837864
3/8/25: Sunday Mail: Dentists and Equity Firms:
2/8/25: Daily Express: Traditional TV and Older Viewers (and supportive editorial) : https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2090178/plan-turn-off-traditional-tv
2/8/25: Daily Mirror: Access to GPs: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gp-doctors-surgeries-changing-carried-35660804
2/8/25: Daily Mail: Pensioners £800 Worse Off: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14963275/Pensioners-worse-Labour.html
29/7/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock Warning: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2087528/campaigners-fire-warning-shot-party
25/7/25: Daily Express: Junior Doctors’ Strike: ‘Threat to lives’ warning as NHS resident doctors begin strike | UK | News | Express.co.uk
25/7/25: Daily Telegraph: DWP Officials and Fraud: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/work-benefits/civil-servants-steal-17m-of-benefits-cash/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
22/7/25: inews: TV Licences BBC Costs: https://inews.co.uk/news/media/benefits-claims-cost-bbc-free-tv-licences-75s-3810791
21/7/25: GB News Interview: State Pension Age Threats
20/7/25: Sunday Mail: Health Advice Chat GPT and Professional Experts Compared: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14922569/Can-AI-beat-doctor-questions-renowned-specialists-chatbot.html (subscription only article)
19/7/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Tax Doom Loop: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2083852/kemi-badenoch-keir-starmer-tax-rises
17/7/25: inews: Pension Credit Fraud: https://inews.co.uk/news/how-500m-taxpayer-cash-lost-pensioners-fraud-mistakes-3808202
14/7/25: inews: Interview with Dennis Reed on State Pension (only available by subscription): https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/pension-campaigner-triple-lock-should-stay-340-week-3804315
14/7/25: Daily Express: Resident Doctors’ Strike: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2081249/dire-consequences-warning-doctors-strike
11/7/25: Daily Mail: Royal Mail Death Sentence: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20250711/281870124455636
10/7/25: Daily Express: Prime Minister’s Questions Tax Thresholds: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2079670/keir-starmer-tax-thresholds-pensioners
7/7/25: Daily Express Front Page Story and Leader Column: Old Age Tax Trap: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2078182/pensions-keir-starmer-labour
7/7/25; Daily Telegraph: Old Age Tax Trap: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/income/labour-refuses-rule-out-retirement-tax-state-pension/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
7/7/25: Daily Express: Streeting and the NHS App: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2078182/pensions-keir-starmer-labour
6/7/25: Sunday Mail and Daily Express: Old Age Tax Trap:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14878563/Poorest-OAPs-income-tax-state-pension-Labour.html
4/7/25: Daily Mail (Front Page Story): NHS Plan and NHS App:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20250704/281741275421589
2/7/25: Radio Tyneside Older Voices Interview
2/7/25: Daily Express: Defending the Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2075993/triple-lock-still-vital-prevent
1/7/25: BBC Radio 2: Jeremy Vine Show: Intergenerational Debate (available on BBC Sounds)
1/7/25: Daily Mail: Public Views on NHS Progress: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14862789/Labour-failed-improvements-NHS-wont-change-election.html
30/6/25: Daily Express: NHS Failings: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2074858/NHS-wes-streeting-labour-health
29/6/25: Sunday Telegraph: Double Council Tax on Retirement Homes: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/labour-council-tax-exemption-retirement-homes/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163 . Also covered by Daily Express 30/6/25
25/6/25: Radio Essex: Landlines Interview
25/6/25 Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Diverting NHS Funds to Deprived Areas: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/streeting-hand-working-class-areas-greater-share-nhs-funds/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
25/6/25: Daily Mail: NHS Strikes: Fury as doctors say they are ‘excited’ by the prospect of more strikes – after already receiving biggest pay rise in public sector and cancelling 1.5million appointments since 2022 | Daily Mail Online
22/6/25: inews: Benefit Fraud and Pension Credit: PIP cuts wrong way to tackle ‘alarming’ benefit fraud, Labour warned
22/6/25: Sunday Telegraph (Front Page Story): NHS Treatment Abroad: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/21/nhs-sends-patients-abroad-waiting-lists-record-high/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
21/6/25: The Times Big Question: Free Travel at 60 (subscription access only): https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/should-over-60s-still-get-free-travel-zbqs682mv?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
18/6/25: The Sun: Costa Coffee and Hospitals: Costa sneakily slaps another price hike onto hot drinks as customers slam ‘sickness tax’ | The Sun
17/6/25: GB News: Social Care Cross Party Talks Interview Andrew Pierce
13/6/25: Daily Express: Labour and Public Trust: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2067866/rachel-reeves-collapses-public-trust
12/6/25: Daily Express: Spending Review Social Care: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2067440/NHS-spending-review-waiting-times
10/6/25: Winter Fuel U-turn Announcement (numerous mentions including Daily Express Front Page Story and Opinion Column, Daily Mirror, MSN, Yahoo News, Radio 2 Interview Jeremy Vine, LBC Interview 9/6):
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2066762/dennis-reed-rachel-reeves-winter-fuel
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-major-winter-fuel-payment-35359976
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2066438/nine-million-pensioners-receive-winter
9/6/25: Daily Express Front Page Story and Opinion Column: Winter Fuel Clarity Required: Rachel Reeves told she must come clean on winter fuel payment | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
9/6/25: Daily Express and Daily Telegraph: Raid on Defined Benefit Pension Schemes: Major pensions update as 9m threatened with new savings raid | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
7/6/25: inews and Daily Mail: Scrapping NHS Letters:
https://inews.co.uk/news/nhs-app-rollout-what-it-means-for-your-healthcare-3735592
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14789221/Health-Secretary-digital-switch-NHS-postage.html
6/6/25: Daily Mail: Winter Fuel ‘Death Tax’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14785727/Labours-winter-fuel-death-tax-Tens-thousands-grieving-families-hounded-pick-dead-elderly-relatives-HMRC-bill.html
5/6/25: The Independent, Daily Express and Daily Mail: Winter Fuel U-Turn:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2064470/nigel-farage-demands-government-reverse
4/6/25: Daily Express: Digital Landlines Safety Concerns: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2063774/landline-pensioners-ditial
4/6/25: BHBN Radio (Birmingham): Interview on Winter Fuel Payments
1/6/25: Sunday Telegraph: Older Drivers; https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegraph/20250601/281809994830993
30/5/25: inews: TV Licence Future: https://inews.co.uk/news/media/bbc-licence-fee-amnesty-over-75s-revealed-3720501
30/5/25: Daily Express: Pension Raids by Companies Authorised: Rachel Reeves told millions could suffer as ‘pension schemes could collapse’ | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
Similar stories in the Times, Daily Telegraph, City AM, and Various Professional Journals
29/5/25: inews (Front Page Story): TV Licence Amnesty for Pensioners: Revealed: BBC ‘amnesty’ for over-75s who do not pay their TV licence fee
28/5/25: Radio Sussex Interview: State Retirement Age
27/5/25: Daily Express: Starmer Under Pressure on Winter Fuel: Keir Starmer under pressure to end winter fuel uncertainty | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
27/5/25: Daily Mail: Threatened NHS Strikes: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14751229/Resident-doctors-starting-gun-summer-discontent.html
26/5/25: Daily Telegraph: Double Council Tax Jeopardy on Retirement Flats: Labour accused of ‘shameful neglect’ of retirement home owners
25/5/25: Sunday Express: Freeview TV Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2059855/campaigners-demand-rethink-plan-switch
25/5/25: Sunday Express (Front Page Story): Restoration of WFP: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2059779/hell-pay-this-winter-pensioners
22/5/25: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel U-Turn: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/2058482/winter-fuel-payment-keir-starmer
22/5/25: Daily Mirror Front Page Story: Winter Fuel U-Turn: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-confirms-winter-fuel-35266578
21-22/5/25: Media Interviews on Winter Fuel U-Turn: Radio 2, Channel 5 Jeremy Vine, BBC Look North, Talk TV
18/5/25: Daily Telegraph: Retirement Homes Service Charges: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/retirement/britain-retirement-home-scandal-labour-betrayal-pensioners/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
17/5/25: Daily Mail: NHS Staff Not Receiving Flu Jabs: Major infection warning as record number of NHS staff reject flu vaccine – uptake falls from nearly 80 to 37% in four years | Daily Mail Online
17/5/25: Daily Express: Scrapping Terrestrial TV: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2056078/fury-plan-turn-off-television
17/5/25: Daily Express Dennis Reed Opinion Column on BBC’s Tim Davie Speech: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2056536/bbc-keir-starmer-want-turn
15/5/25: GB News: BBC Internet Ambitions: https://www.gbnews.com/tech/bbc-streaming-stick-rival-fire-tv-roku
15/5/25: The Times: Tim Davie Speech on IPTV (subscription access only): https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/bbc-plans-streaming-stick-to-aid-online-switchover-wb77bj6l0?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
15/5/25 : Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel Struggles: Labour faces fresh demands for winter fuel U-turn after devastating poll | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
11/5/25: Daily Telegraph: Banking Hubs: The bank ‘vanity project’ loved by Reeves but causing chaos for customers
7/5/25: Daily Mirror Front Page Story: Winter Fuel Pressure: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-faces-backlash-after-35180718
7/5/25: Daily Express Front Page Story: No Winter Fuel U-turn: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2051494/labour-turmoil-winter-fuel-allowance
2/5/25: Daily Express: Social Care Commission: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20250502/281878714245984
1/5/25: Daily Express: Social Care Commission Delays: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20250501/281732685355944
28/4/25: Daily Telegraph: Retirement Homes and Council Tax: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buying-selling/impossible-to-sell-retirement-flats-hit-double-council-tax/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
26/4/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock Future: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2046537/State-pension-triple-lock-update-Rachel-Reeves
25/4/25: inews: TV licences in Sheltered Accommodation: https://inews.co.uk/news/media/102-year-old-neighbour-sent-threatening-tv-licence-fee-letters-3657008
23/4/25: inews: Pension Credit Numbers to Fall: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/150000-retirees-claim-pension-credit-lose-winter-fuel-payment-3655019
22/4/25: The Guardian: GPs and Face to Face Appointments: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/22/patient-satisfaction-gp-services-england-research
22/4/25: BBC Humberside Radio Interview on above story
22/4/25: Daily Express: No Response on Frozen Tax Threshold Petition: ‘No excuse!’ Fury as Keir Starmer delivers huge snub to pensioners | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
21/4/24: inews: Older People and Student Loans: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/over-80s-taxpayer-funded-loans-fine-art-animation-degrees-3612124
18/4/25: inews: TV Licences and Over-75s: https://inews.co.uk/news/100-
17/4/25: Daily Mail: GPs and Hospital Waiting Lists: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14619359/GPs-paid-20-bonus-time-avoid-referring-patient-directly-hospital-bid-cut-NHS-waiting-lists.html
13/4/25: Sunday Mirror: Social Care Commission Delays: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/documents-show-social-care-review-35045343
11/4/25: Yahoo News: Tariffs and Pensions: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-tariffs-uk-pensions-093949049.html
7/4/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Cost of Living: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2037826/state-pension-triple-lock-bills-winter-fuel
5/4/25: inews: State Pensioners and Taxation: https://inews.co.uk/news/triple-lock-tax-pens12 ions-millions-payments-36252
5/4/25: Yahoo News and Birmingham Live: HMRC Double Whammy: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/state-pensioners-set-hit-unfair-124900701.html
2/4/25: The Sun: Bank Branch Closures: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/34220812/lloyds-halifax-bank-branch-closures-manage-money-online/
2/4/25: Daily Telegraph: Council Tax and MPs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/fury-mps-expense-second-homes-council-tax-surcharge/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
30/3/25: IFA Magazine: Petition Hand-In: https://ifamagazine.com/elder-rights-campaigner-delivers-100000-strong-petition-on-increasing-the-state-pension-tax-threshold/
30/3/25: inews: Winter Fuel Cuts and Poverty Impact: https://inews.co.uk/news/dwp-warned-millions-poverty-lose-winter-fuel-payment-cut-anyway-3613264
30/3/25: inews: Taxing the State Pension: ‘Waspis waited six years for our pension – now we will have to pay tax on it’
30/3/25: Daily Mail: Inadequate GP Practices: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14539597/England-worst-GP-surgeries-named-shamed.html
27/3/25: GB News Interview Pensioners and Tax (Martin Daubney Show)
26/3/25: Daily Express: Petition Hand-In: Rachel Reeves warned to avoid pensioner tax bombshell | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
25/3/25: Yahoo News: State Pension Issues: https://uk.news.yahoo.
24/3/25: Daily Express: Opposition to Rise in State Pension Age: ‘State pension hike to 67 can’t be justified as deaths rise – axe it!’ | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
24/3/25: Daily Express: (Front Page Story, Opinion Piece and Editorial Comment): Spring Statement: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2031269/millions-older-people-face-tax
21/3/25: Daily Record: State Pension and Tax: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/state-pension-payments-income-tax-34907426
20/3/25: Daily Express: Case Against Raising the State Pension Age: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20250320/282166476968401
20/3/25: Radio Sussex and Surrey: Older People and Online Services
19/3/25: Daily Express: Triple Lock Threats: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2029632/pension-triple-lock-threat-top
18/3/25: Yahoo News (and many other media outlets): Taxing the State Pension Petition: DWP ‘refusing to meet’ pensioners calling for rise in state pension tax threshold
18/3/25: Daily Telegraph: Local Pharmacy Actions: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/18/pharmacies-cut-services-and-hours-as-reeves-tax-raid-bites/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
17/3/25: Daily Express: Raising the Tax Threshold for Older People: Rachel Reeves pension tax bombshell as Chancellor urged to raise personal allowance | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
16/3/25: Daily Express: Taxing the State Pension Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2027836/personal-tax-allowance-over-80-000-demand-change-petition-treasury-responds
16/3/25: Manchester Evening News: Pension Petition: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/update-calls-increase-personal-tax-31211574
14/3/25: Daily Record: Petition on Tax Thresholds: New calls to ‘stop taxing the State Pension’ ahead of Spring Statement – Daily Record
13/3/25: Syndicated Story in 47 Regional and Local News Titles: Taxing the State Pension: 47 local/regional titles across the country
13/3/25: MSN News: Taxing the State Pension: HMRC could stop taxing state pensioners after 80,000 people demand it
9/3/25: Sunday Express: Ofgem Bonuses: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2024428/ofgem-has-handed-its-staff-fat-bonus
9/3/25: Daily Telegraph: Hard Copy Tax Returns: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/income/british-spies-told-fill-paper-tax-returns-hmrc-website/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
9/3/25: Sunday Mail: Age Discrimination and RSV Jabs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14477263/Campaigners-outrage-exclude-80s-vaccine-rollout.html
7/3/25: Daily Express (double page spread): Stop State Pensions Being Taxed: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2023627/rachel-reeves-state-pension-income-tax
1/3/25: Daily Telegraph: April Prices Storm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/rachel-reeves-about-wreck-your-finances-how-defend-yourself/
28/2/25: BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show: Interview on GPs’ Contract
28/2/25: Daily Express: Pension Credit Delays: Labour blasted over winter fuel payment cuts as major delays revealed | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
26/2/25: Daily Express: Energy Price Rises: PressReader.com – Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions
25/2/25: Daily Telegraph: Campaign on State Pensions and Taxation: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions/state-pensions/rachel-reeves-urged-raise-personal-allowance-by-1000/
25/2/25: Daily Express Front Page Story (and opinion column and supportive editorial): Stop State Pensions Being Taxed:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2018645/rachel-reeves-state-pension-silver-voices
23/2/25: Daily Mail: Loss of Confidence in NHS: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14422831/Britain-loses-faith-NHS-Patients-delay-seeking-care-long-wait-times-lack-staff.html
23/2/25: Daily Mail: Older Drivers: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14354643/OAP-older-drivers-danger-test-divided.html
21/2/25: The Sun: Costa Coffee Charges in Hospitals: Costa Coffee slammed for adding a ‘sickness tax’ onto hot drinks at hospital cafes | The Sun
21/2/25: Daily Telegraph: Threats to Cash ISAs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/reeves-proposed-cash-isa-cut-another-blow-pensioners/
20/2/25: Daily Express: Landlines Petition: Fury over forced switch from traditional landlines as 70k sign petition | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
19/2/25: Daily Express: Further Rise in Energy Prices: Energy bills predicted to rise again in April in huge blow to pensioners | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
18/2/25: Daily Express: Age UK Research on Cold Homes and Pensioners (no link available to quote)
16/2/25: Daily Express: Council Tax and Winter Fuel: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2015103/labour-slammed-forcing-pensioners-poverty
15/2/25: Daily Telegraph: Labour Tax Raids on Pensioners (Council Tax): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/labour-tax-raids-rendering-triple-lock-worthless/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
11/2/25: inews: TV Licences and Pension Credit: Almost 500,000 pension credit claimants missing out on free TV licence
10/2/25: The Independent and the Sun: MP Salary Increase and Winter Fuel Payments:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33291978/fury-as-mps-salaries-soar-to-93k/
MPs’ pay to soar to £94k in inflation-busting rise
8/2/25: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Foreign Doctors in the NHS: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/07/wes-streeting-attacks-nhs-over-reliance-on-foreign-doctors/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
7/2/25: inews: Pension Credit Backlog: Winter fuel payment won’t be paid until spring to thousands of pensioners
7/2/25: Daily Mail: Private Ambulance Services:
6/2/25: Daily Mail: GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14365243/half-medical-appointments-GP-patients.html
4/2/25: Daily Telegraph: Pensions Minister and Pension Credit Backlog:
3/2/25: Daily Express: Bank Spying Powers and Pension Credit: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2008848/labour-benefit-snooping-law
31/1/25: Daily Express: Royal Mail Surrender: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2007602/ofcom-royal-mail-watchdog-surrendering-deliveries
30/1/25: Daily Telegraph: Winter Fuel Protest: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/retirement/winter-fuel-raid-cold-pensioners-shame-labour/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
29/1/25: Daily Express: Save Our Landlines Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2006730/analogue-landline-digital-silver-voices
28/1/25: Daily Express: Wrexham and Older People’s Housing: Council slammed after over-50s only homes stopped | UK | News | Express.co.uk
27/1/25: Daily Mail: W H Smith and Post Offices: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-14330825/WH-Smith-seeks-allay-fears-store-Post-Offices-sells-High-Street-estate.html
25/1/25: Daily Express Front Page Story: Winter Fuel Campaign: Rachel Reeves’s winter fuel ‘disgrace’ as veteran is saved by stranger’s £500 lifeline | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
24/1/25: Daily Express: Rachel Reeves Fuel Bill Hypocrisy: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2004596/rachel-reeves-energy-bill-expenses
23/1/25: Daily Mail: Terrestrial Broadcast Campaign: BBC, ITV and Channel 4 push back on calls to delay terrestrial TV switch-off despite fears streaming could isolate older viewers | Daily Mail Online
21/1/25: Daily Telegraph: Residential Homes Boss Salary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/care-home-boss-raises-fees-after-1-9m-salary/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
20/1/25: Daily Mail: NHS and Ageist Language: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14301115/NHS-staff-told-Dont-call-patients-middle-aged-pensioner-senior.html
20/1/25: Daily Express: Treasury to-do List: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2002382/rachel-reeves-treasury-tax-hikes
19/1/25: Sunday Express: Labour’s War on Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2002186/dennis-reed-keir-starmer
18/1/25: Daily Express Front Page Story and Opinion Column: Triple Lock Threats: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2002019/tamper-triple-lock-universal-state
17/1/25: Badenoch and the Triple Lock: LBC and GB News Interviews
16/1/25: Daily Express: Boycott Social Care Commission: Labour slammed over social care plans as charity demands boycott | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
16/1/25: Daily Express: New Pension Minister and Triple Lock: Triple lock in danger as Starmer appoints pensions minister who wanted to ‘abolish’ it | UK | News | Express.co.uk
12/1/25: Mail on Sunday: Royal Mail Restricted Deliveries: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14274535/Royal-Mail-scrap-Saturday-deliveries.html
9/1/25: Daily Mail: Fine for Occupying Hospital Bed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14263457/Flu-hit-NHS-hospitals-threat-charge-pensioner-582-night.html
7/1/25: Daily Mirror: Starmer Speech on NHS: Keir Starmer says NHS can’t become ‘national money pit’ as he sets out plan to slash backlog – Mirror Online
7/1/25: Daily Express: DWP Bonuses: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20250107/281685440481712
6/1/25: Daily Mail: Inadequate GP Practices: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14252709/millions-nhs-patients-care-failing-gp-surgeries.html
4/1/25: Daily Express Front Page Story: Social Care Commission Cop Out: ‘It’s a cop out!’ Furious campaigners blast Labour’s social care plan | UK | News | Express.co.uk
4/1/25: Daily Mail: Streeting and Crass Winter Fuel Comment: Wes Streeting accused of being ‘crass’ and ‘cruel’ after urging old people to turn on their heating amid sub-zero temperatures this weekend | Daily Mail Online
3/1/25: Daily Telegraph: Streeting and Winter Fuel Comment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/03/turn-your-heating-on-this-weekend-wes-streeting/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
2/1/25: inews: Council Tax and MPs’ Expenses: https://inews.co.uk/news/mps-claim-500000-pay-council-tax-second-homes-3431213 also covered in Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph
1/1/25: Daily Express: Opinion Column for Front Page Story on Energy Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1994772/winter-fuel-payments-pensioners-energy-bill
27/12/24: Daily Express: Hospital Parking Charges: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1993163/hospital-car-parking-fees-lib-dems
27/12/24: Daily Express: Sandwich Carers and Depression (no link available)
25/12/24: inews: Older People and Pre-Payment Meters: https://inews.co.uk/news/pensioners-4m-prepayment-meters-spending-third-income-energy-3449900
24/12/24: Daily Mail: Christmas and NHS Loss of Confidence: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14223177/ambulance-GP-Christmas-study-reveals.html
24/12/24: Daily Express: Christmas Bonus and Inflation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1992351/rachel-reeves-christmas-bonus-pensioners
20/12/24: The Sun: TV Licensing Alleged Assault: https://iframe.thesun.co.uk/news/32408430/bbc-licence-fee-officer-car-row/
18/12/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): WASPI Women Refused Compensation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1989789/ministers-reject-waspi-women-pleas
18/12/24: Daily Express: Government Response to Winter Fuel Petition:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1989884/pensioners-blast-labour-government-over
16/12/24: GB News Interview: TV Licence Enforcement
16/12/24: Daily Mail: Sale of Royal Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14199157/Labour-ministers-criticised-Royal-Mail-foreign-hands-Daniel-Kretinsky.html
16/12/24: Daily Express: Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Opinion Column Dennis Reed: Winter fuel warning: Labour to ‘leave 750k pensioners in the cold’ | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
16/12/24: The Sun: TV Licence Visits on Christmas Day: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32318189/bbc-pensioners-christmas-day-tv-licence/ including supportive editorial comment. Also in the Daily Mirror
14/12/24: Radio Five Live Breakfast: Interview with member Ann on Winter Fuel
13/12/24: Daily Telegraph: Loneliness at Christmas: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/13/loneliness-elderly-drives-surge-single-christmas-dinner/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
13/12/24: inews: Pension Credit and Winter Fuel: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/claim-pension-credit-winter-fuel-3426176
11/12/24: Daily Telegraph: working from Home Tax Allowance: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/10/work-from-home-cost-100m-in-tax-breaks-since-end-lockdown/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
9/12/24: Daily Express (with editorial comment): Pensioners being Ghosted by Government: Labour accused of ‘ghosting’ pensioners in fury over anti-OAP policies | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
9/12/24: Daily Express: Stroke Patients and Lack of Ambulances: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20241209/281891598856729
6/12/24: inews: MPs Energy Claims: MPs claim £300,000 for energy bills amid winter fuel payment cut
6/12/24: Daily Express: Landlines and Forced Transfers: Campaigners accuse government of caving to telecom demands on digital | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
6/12/24: Daily Mail: State Pension and Means-Testing: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/
4/12/24: inews: State Pension and Means-Testing: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/challenges-means-testing-state-pension-risks-3411601?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=i_imoney_041224&utm_term=editorial_money_active_users
2/12/24 Daily Mail and Daily Express: Liz Kendall Energy Claims
1/12/24: Sunday Mail Front Page Story: Liz Kendall Energy Claims
30/11/24: Daily Express: TV Licence Fee Increase (no link available)
29/11/24: Daily Express: Royal Mail Sale: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20241129/281883008901740
27/11/24: inews: Winter Fuel Case Studies: https://inews.co.uk/news/pensioner-not-turned-heating-two-years-3402732
26/11/24: inews: Threats to State Pension: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/why-state-pension-means-tested-experts-3400769
25/11/24: Daily Express: Front Page Story, Opinion Column and Editorial: Assisted Dying:
https://www.express.co.
https://www.express.co.uk/
24/11/24: Sunday Mail: Shingles Jabs and Age Discrimination: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14119271/Health-Minister-age-discrimination-pensioner-shingles-vaccine-NHS.html
21/11/24: Daily Telegraph: Winter Fuel Cuts and Impact Assessment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions/labour-told-reveal-how-many-pensioners-die-winter-fuel/
20/11/24: Interviews GB News (Martin Daubney) and Talk TV (Jeremy Kyle): Winter Fuel Payments
19/11/24: Sky News Kay Burley Show: Interview on Winter Fuel and Arctic Blast
19/11/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Winter Fuel: Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts slammed as energy price cap ‘set to rise’ | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
18/11/24: Daily Mail: NHS Locums Scandal: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14093809/Private-agencies-rake-bumper-profits-hiring-locum-doctors-hospitals.html
16/11/24: The Times (Money): Cashless Car Parks (available subscription only)
15/11/24: Daily Telegraph: Older People and Road Accidents: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/14/surge-car-crashes-elderly-drivers-bus-service-cuts-dft-uk/?msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
11/11/24: Daily Express (Front Page, Opinion Column and Lead Editorial): Starmer Disrespect:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1974200/keir-starmer-pensioners-winter-fuel-payments
6/11/24: Daily Telegraph: Dental Deserts and Prisons:
4/11/24: Daily Mail: Royals Charge Ambulances on their Land: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14037119/King-Charles-pressure-refund-cash-strapped-NHS-charged-one-trust-11m-park-land.html
4/11/24: Daily Mail: GP Practices and NI Hike: Patients could find it even harder to see a GP after Labour’s hike in National Insurance, health leaders warn | Daily Mail Online
2/11/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Pensioners to Skip Meals: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1970380/rachel-reeves-budget-winter-fuel-payment
30/10/24: inews: Budget and Pensioners: I’m a pensioner in fuel poverty, Labour is attacking older people
29/10/24: Daily Express Front Page, Editorial: Silver Voices Petition Hand-In: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1968301/rachel-reeves-winter-fuel-payments-silver-voices
Also significant coverage in regional press (including Manchester Evening News)
29/10/24: inews: Labour and Older People: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/why-older-people-abandoned-budget-3349301
28/10/24: Daily Express Double Spread, Opinion Column and Editorial: Pensioners Better Off Under Labour?
MPs would not blink twice at spending hundreds to see Taylor Swift | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
27/10/24: TALK TV: Peter Cardwell: Budget Interview
26/10/24: Daily Telegraph: WFP and Local Authorities: Pensioners face ‘postcode lottery’ over winter fuel discount
26/10/24: Daily Express: Questions over Winter Fuel Savings: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1967355/winter-fuel-payments-mel-stride-letter
25/10/24: The Sun: Nationwide Passbooks Scrapped: Major building society to axe key service affecting 120,000 customers – are you one of them? | The Sun
25/10/24: Daily Express: Budget to Protect Older People (including Comment Column and Leader Comment):
https://www.express.co.uk/
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24/10/24: Daily Telegraph: Dementia Drug Rejected for NHS: Tens of thousands to be recruited into Alzheimer’s trials after landmark drug rejected
24/10/24: BBC Radio Essex Interview: Parking Apps
22/10/24: Daily Express: IMF UK Economy Forecast and Winter Fuel Cuts: Rachel Reeves urged to U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts after UK economy boost | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
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16-17 October 2024: considerable media attention over hand-in of 500,000 strong petition from charities and campaign groups on the winter fuel payment cuts (including 106,000 signatures from Silver Voices). Carried by media across the UK including interviews on BBC and GB News.
Pensioners urge UK government to scrap winter fuel payment cuts
14/10/24: Daily Express: DWP Letter on Winter Fuel: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20241014/281633900689602
13/10/24: Sunday Express: Labour MPs Want Changes to Winter Fuel Policy: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1961067/labour-rachel-reeves-winter-fuel-cut
11/10/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Heating or Eating: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1960265/winter-fuel-payments-Peoples-Health-Trust
10/10/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Pensioners and Tax: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1959744/pensioners-winter-fuel-tax
9/10/24: Daily Express: Free Prescriptions 60-65: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1959079/free-prescriptions-over-60s-labour-winter-fuel
8/10/24: Daily Express Front Page Story, Editorial and Video: Winter Fuel Protest: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1958254/winter-fuel-payments-protest-unite-npc
6/10/24: Daily Express: Dennis Reed Opinion Column on Winter Fuel Rally: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1958071/keir-starmer-dennis-reed-winter-fuel-payment
5/10/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel and Over 80s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1957458/winter-fuel-payments-over-80-lib-dems
2/10/24: Daily Mail: Increase in GP Video Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13911835/gp-appointments-face-face-digital-person-zoom.html
28/9/24: Daily Express Front Page: Government Can Afford Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1954287/chancellor-winter-fuel-fiscal-rules
27/9/24: The Sun: Pension Credit Process: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/30706139/pension-credit-claim-accepted-third-rejected-always-try-again/
27/9/24: The Sun: Argos Card Holders: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/30700852/argos-card-major-change-service-shoppers-fuming/
25/9/24: Daily Express: Increase in Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240925/281599540903427
24/9/24: Daily Express: PM Prioritising Working People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1952401/keir-starmer-workers-pensioners
23/9/24: Daily Express: Budget Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1951733/rachel-reeves-chancellor-winter-fuel-payments
21/9/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Poorest Pensioners to Lose Winter Fuel Payment: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1951321/Winter-fuel-Labour-economy-Labour-starmer
20/9/24: Daily Express Front Page Story and Opinion Column: Winter Fuel Case Study: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1950775/winter-fuel-payment-pensioner-veteran-jack-barlow
18/9/24: Daily Express Front Page: 1.7 Million Will Not Switch On Heating: Warnings of health disaster for older people amid heating rationing | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
17/9/24: inews: Starmer Gifts and Winter Fuel: https://inews.co.uk/news/pensioners-accuse-starmer-of-being-out-of-touch-over-winter-fuel-and-freebies-rows-3280812
16/9/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Winter Fuel and Disabled People: Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts branded ‘disgrace’ as new rules come into force | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
16/9/24: Daily Mail: Lib Dems and Health: More than 10 million people face waiting at least one month to see their GP, damning figures reveal | Daily Mail Online
15/9/24: Sunday Express Budget: Keir Starmer faces fresh pressure over winter fuel cuts as petition passes milestone | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
15/9/24: Sunday Mail: Access to GPs: Exposed: How GPs’ infuriating online booking systems STOP patients seeking help. So, how many more will die like Allan before it ends? | Daily Mail Online
14/9/24: Daily Express: Silver Voices Petition Reaches 100,000: Keir Starmer faces fresh pressure over winter fuel cuts as petition passes milestone | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
12/9/24: Daily Express: Winter Fuel Aftermath: Keir Starmer is ‘hiding’ number of pensioner deaths expected after win | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
12/9/24: Daily Telegraph: RAC Breakdowns: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/11/rac-tells-drivers-to-report-breakdowns-online-not-by-phone/?utmsource=email&msockid=1c940226719260232819116a70526163
11/9/24: Daily Express Front Page Splash and Comment Column: Winter Fuel Vote:
10/9/24: Sky News: Kay Burley Show: Debate on Winter Fuel Payments
9/9/24: Daily Express: Warning to Prime Minister: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1946145/winter-fuel-payment-petition-age-uk-keir-starmer
9/9/24: Interviews on Winter Fuel Payments: BBC News, Talk TV, GB News, BBC Regional Radio
8/9/24: BBC Radio 5 Live Interview: Winter Fuel Payment (Breakfast Show available on BBC Sounds 9 am)
7/9/24: Daily Express: Postage Stamp increase: Pensioners to be hit with price hike in Royal Mail first class stamps | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
7/9/24: Talk TV Interview Peter Cardwell: Council Tax Single Discount: https://watch.talk.tv/watch/replay/19090557/peter-cardwell
6/9/24: Daily Express: Front Page Splash, Leader Column and Opinion Column: Winter Fuel Payments:
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1944953/older-people-are-willing-compromise
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1944931/mass-protests-planned-if-government
6/9/24: The Sun: Budget and Pensioners: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/30268123/rachel-reeves-autumn-statement-affect-state-pension-triple-lock/
5/9/24: Daily Mail: Leaked State Pension Increase: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20240905/281724094912196
4/9/24: Daily Mail: Pension Credit Obstacles: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20240904/282230901050840
3/9/24: iNews: Council Tax Single Person Discount: Axeing council tax discount would be ‘hammer-blow’ for pensioners and single parents (inews.co.uk)
3/9/24: Daily Mail (Front Page Story): Labour Ducking Winter Fuel Debate: Labour is accused of ‘running scared’ at growing backlash over controversial plans to axe winter fuel payments for 10 million UK pensioners | Daily Mail Online
3/9/24: Daily Express: Landlines and Older People: Firms playing ‘Russian roulette’ with older people’s lives, campaigner | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
3/9/24: Daily Express Council Tax Single Rebate: New pensioner tax blow as Labour refuses to rule out another council tax hit – Liverpool Echo
2/9/24: GB News Head to Head Debate Winter Fuel Issue
2/9/24 The Guardian and Daily Mail: IPSOS Research on GP Appointments: GPs putting patients at risk by rushing them out in 10 min appointments, damning survey reveals | Daily Mail Online
2/9/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Winter Fuel and Pensioner Protests: Labour warned U-turn on winter fuel allowance to stop ‘disaster’ | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
2/9/24: Daily Mail: Labour Excuses on Winter Fuel Payments: Labour set to block House of Commons vote on plans to strip the winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners leaving Tories’ angry as ministers accused of ‘hiding’ from scrutiny | Daily Mail Online
1/9/24: Sunday Express: Fuel Duty and Older People: PressReader.com – Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions
1/9/24: Daily Telegraph: Self-Service Checkouts: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/30/self-checkouts-taking-over-fashion-despite-shopper-backlash/
28/08/24: Daily Mirror (Front Page Story): Starmer Speech on Painful Budget: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-urged-not-abandon-33548527
25/8/24: Talk TV Peter Cardwell Interview: Winter Fuel
25/8/24: Sunday Express: Winter Fuel Crisis: PressReader.com – Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions
24/8/24 Winter Fuel Campaign: Daily Mail and Daily Express:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1939873/Tories-Labour-pensioners-payments-fuel-winter
23/8/24: LBC Interview: Energy Cap Rise
22/8/24: inews: HMRC and State Pensions: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/pensioners-pay-higher-tax-2028-hmrc-writes-sums-3239555?ico=most_popular
20/8/24: Daily Express: Winter Fuel Article by Dennis Reed and Leader Column Mention: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1938110/winter-fuel-policy-rachel-reeves-labour
19/8/24: Daily Mail: Cabinet Ministers and Energy Allowances: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13755571/Labour-cabinet-ministers-using-cash-warm-homes.html
18/8/24: Sunday Express: Winter Fuel Impact Assessment (Front Page Story): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1937363/chancellor-rachel-reeves-pensioners-winter-fuel
16/8/24: Daily Express: Opinion Column Dennis Reed Winter Fuel: https://www.express.co.uk/
16/8/24: Radio Interviews Winter Fuel Payments: LBC (Nick Ferrari) and Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine)
15/8/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1936110/rachel-reeves-winter-fuel-payment-pensioners
14/8/24: Daily Mail: DWP Golden Handshakes: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20240814/281642490479967
14/8/24: Daily Express: Married Women Pensions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1935558/Rachel-Reeves-state-pension-warning-Labour
13/8/24: Daily Express: Age Discrimination and NHS: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1935125/nhs-equaltiites-age-discrimination-silver-voices
11/8/24: Sunday Express: Bus Passes and Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1934561/Furious-pensioners-tell-Chancellor-Hands-off-the-bus-pass
10/8/24: Daily Telegraph: GP Hours and Pay: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/10/gps-are-working-fewer-hours-but-being-paid-more/
10/8/24: Daily Express: More State Pension Errors: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1934267/state-pension-error-dwp-steve-webb
9/8/24: Daily Mirror: Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/axing-winter-fuel-payment-millions-33420700
5/8/24: Daily Telegraph: GPs and Older Patients: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/05/elderly-patients-unable-to-fight-for-gp-appointment-strikes/
5/8/24: BBC Radio Oxford: Scrapping Landlines Interview
4/8/24: Sunday Express: Social Care Cap and Winter Fuel Payment: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1931706/labour-accused-of-betraying-pensioners
4/8/24: Sun on Sunday: Winter Fuel Payment: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/29665574/pemsioners-chancellor-winter-fuel-payout/
1/8/24: Daily Express: BBC Tim Davie: BBC chief Tim Davie told to resign over Huw Edwards shame | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
1/8/24: Daily Mail: GPs Action to Limit Patients: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13698641/GP-industrial-action-lead-disaster-cancer-care-worsen-E-waiting-times-experts-patient-groups-warn.html
29/7/24 to 1/8/24: Winter Fuel Payment Means Testing: Numerous Media Mentions including: Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Mail and Interviews on BBC 2 Jeremy Vine, GB News, Times Radio. Examples:
Labour must reverse ‘callous decision’ to axe Winter Fuel Payment | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
25/7/24: Daily Express: Social Care Reform: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1928095/Social-Care-NHS-Labour-Conservatives-Lib-Dems
24/7/24: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): GPs Collective Action: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/23/gps-threaten-to-see-fewer-patients-pay-row-protest-labour/
22/7/24: Daily Mail Online: Microsoft IT Problems and GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13658641/Microsoft-outage-misery-doctors-warn-expect-WEEK-GP-disruption-hit-NHS-bosses-pushing-digital-model-left-practices-hamstrung-computer-systems-went-down.html
20/7/24: Daily Mail (Front Page Story): Global IT Meltdown: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13653309/Global-meltdown-perils-cashless-society.html
18/7/24: Daily Express: King’s Speech: King’s Speech shows more taxes are on the way under socialist Starmer, | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
17/7/24: Daily Telegraph: NHS Apps: The real dangers of the digital GP surgery (telegraph.co.uk)
17/7/24: Daily Express Spread: Older People Cancelled: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1924097/getting-old-is-like-being-cancelled-survey-older-
17/7/24: Daily Express Dental Crisis: Shocking 13m patients struggling to access NHS dental care | Express.co.uk
8/7/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Express Priorities for New Government: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1920045/express-10-point-common-sense-plan
4/7/24: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Postal Vote Chaos: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph/20240704/281543706127801
28/6/24: Daily Express: Labour and Pensioner Benefits: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1916301/Pensioners-Keir-Starmer-Labour-Rishi-Sunak-Conservatives
27/6/24: The Sun: Death of Check Outs: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/28781591/sainsburys-checkout-change-staff-tills/
27/6/24: Daily Express: Conspiracy of Silence over Social Care: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1915744/Social-Care-Tories-Labour-Silver-Voices-elderly-alzheimers-dementia-NHS
23/6/24: Talk TV: Tax and Spending: Dennis Reed Interview on Peter Cardwell Show
23/6/24: Sunday Express: State Pension Taxation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1914231/state-pensioners-labour-income-tax
19/6/24: iNews: General Election and Pensions: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/labour-and-tories-think-triple-lock-can-buy-older-votes-says-pension-campaigner-3117719
17/6/24: Daily Express: Research on Access to GPs: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1911922/pensioners-nhs-social-care-health-report
(also Daily Telegraph on same subject)
14/6/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Labour Manifesto:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1910958/Keir-Starmer-Labour-Manifesto
11/6/24: Daily Mail: Ageism and Lack of Action by EHRC: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13516773/Equality-watchdog-ignoring-institutional-ageism-NHS-favour-sex-race-trans-issues-charity-claims.html
11/6/24: Daily Express: Liberal Democrats and Health and Social Care: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1909343/ed-davey-liberal-democrats-brexit-EU
10/6/24: Daily Express: Parties Must Sort Out Social Care: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240610/281655375226199
7/6/24: Daily Mail: Doctor Will See You Now: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13506229/GPs-plan-protest-seeing-patients-face-face.html
7/6/24: Daily Telegraph: GPs Action on Face to Face Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/06/gps-patients-face-to-face-bm-action/
5/6/24: Daily Mail: Ratios of GPs to Admin. Staff in Practices: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13467155/Receptionists-outnumber-GPs-90-surgeries-Shock-analysis-reveals-one-practice-22-backroom-staff-one-doctor-bad-situation-waiting-room.html
5/6/24: Daily Express: Social Care Spread and Comment Column from Dennis Reed: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1907333/Social-care-general-election-Tories-Labour-Lib-Dems
4/6/24: Daily Mail: Surge in Private Hospital Treatment: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20240604/282462829065513
31/5/24: Radio Sussex Interview: Digital Voice
30/5/24: Daily Express: Social Care Reforms: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240530/281578065792990
29/5/24: Daily Express: Labour and Tax Allowances: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1904651/millions-of-pensioners-worse-off-under-labour
28/5/24: Interviews on LBC and Talk TV on Future of State Pensions
28/5/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Age-Related Personal Tax Allowance Promise: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1904189/Pensioners-tax-cut-triple-lock-Rishi-Sunak-general-election-cost-of-living
20/5/24: BBC Online: Delay to Switchover Timetable: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5119g5z4q5o
20/5/24: Mail Online: BT Delays Digital Voice: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13432989/BT-axe-ludicrous-digital-landline-switchover-deadline-vulnerable-customers-left-isolated-unable-call-emergency-services.html
20/5/24: Daily Mail: Royal Mail and Second Class Post: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13436691/Fears-future-second-class-Royal-Mail-deliveries-growing-amid-proposed-3-5-billion-takeover-postal-service.html
19/5/24: Sunday Express: Ageism in Sport (no link available)
18/5/24: Radio 4 Today: Royal Mail Sale
17/5/24: Daily Mail Front Page Story: Royal Mail Sale: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13427779/kemi-badenoch-royal-mail-5-billion-sale-warning.html
16/5/24: Daily Express: Private Pension Pots (Dennis Reed Opinion Column to go with Front Page Story): https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1899587/private-pension-pots-comment-dennis-reed-silver-voices
14/5/24: Daily Express: Conspiracy of Silence over Social Care: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240514/281792814125710
9/5/24: Daily Mail: Digital Voice and Sheltered Housing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392045/Retirement-home-residents-hundreds-pounds-charges-digital-landline-switchover-emergency-alarm.html
8/5/24: Daily Mail: Probate Delays: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-13392485/Grieving-relatives-face-long-waits-hold-probate-office-helpline-hours-cut.html
5/5/24: Sunday Express: Older People and Tax Threshold: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1895657/huge-majority-backs-increased-tax-threshold-for-pensioners
29/4/24: Daily Mail: Family Doctors: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13360291/End-family-doctor-half-patients-GP.html
28/4/24: Daily Mirror: Labour Pledge on Triple Lock: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-gives-update-future-32688122
28/4/24: The Sun: Costa Coffee and Hospitals: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/27561744/costa-coffee-blasted-unacceptable-price-hikes-hospital/
26/4/24: i Newspaper: Single Pensioners: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/panic-single-pensioners-struggling-afford-bills-3023988
23/4/24: LBC Interview Iain Dale Show: Age Discrimination
23/4/24: i Newspaper: Passport Applications: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/bills/thousands-overpaying-new-passports-rule-elderly-3017805?ico=related_stories
22/4/24: Daily Mail: NHS App: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20240422/281762749310831
19/4/24: Daily Telegraph: Rise in Dental Insurance: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/18/dental-insurance-at-record-levels-as-nhs-in-crisis/
16/4/24: Daily Mail: Landlines and Continuing Uncertainty: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13314051/Pensioners-vulnerable-customers-digital-landline-switchover-telecoms-bosses-broadband.html
13/4/24: Daily Express: Dennis Reed Opinion Column on Age UK Blueprint (no link available)
12/4/24: Daily Express: Labour and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1887791/keir-starmer-triple-lock-pensions-labour-manifesto
12/4/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Triple Lock Shortfalls: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1887492/State-pension-triple-lock-increase-shortfall-inflation-earnings
11/4/24: Daily Mirror: Labour and Buses: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-plans-save-up-1300-32557142
10/4/24: Daily Express: Labour Adviser and Ageist Remarks: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1886855/Labour-pensioner-tax-advisor-codgers
9/4/24: inews: Growing Gap Between Old and New State Pensions: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/older-retirees-triple-lock-widens-state-pension-gap-2996772
8/4/24: Daily Mail: France Fines for GP Non-Attendance: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13284423/France-FINE-patients-miss-GP-appointments-4-30-bid-free-millions-slots.html
8/4/24: Daily Express: Victory for Landlines Campaign: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240408/282007562417721
8/4/24: Daily Express: Triple Lock Increase: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1885848/Pensioners-state-pension-triple-lock-Jeremy-Hunt
4/4/24: The Sun: GPs. Patients Asked to Bring Batteries: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/27121347/gp-surgery-kent-patients-batteries/
3/4/24: Daily Mail: Access to GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13267579/GP-crisis-appointment-difficult-practice-interactive-map.html
2/4/24: Daily Express: Two Tier State Pension Growing Gap: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20240402/281513641166028
2/4/24: Daily Mail: Long Waits for GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13259133/patients-wait-month-GP-appointment-map-graphs.html
29/3/24: Daily Express: Triple Lock Wiped Out by Tax Rises: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1882749/Pensions-Triple-lock-Jeremy-Hunt-Budget-National-Insurance-Tax-Dennis-Reed-Age-UK
28/3/24: Daily Express: National Insurance and Silver Voices Survey: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1882366/Pensioners-Pensions-Dennis-Reed-Jeremy-Hunt
27/3/24: Daily Express: Sunak and Triple lock Promise: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1881954/Triple-Lock-manifesto-promise
27/3/24: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): NHs Dissatisfaction Levels: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/27/nhs-satisfaction-lowest-british-social-attitudes-survey/
25/3/24: Daily Express: Chancellor Triple Lock Manifesto Promise; https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1881157/chancellor-jeremy-hunt-pension-triple-lock-labour-general-election
24/3/24: Sunday Mail: Shingles Jabs and Age Discrimination:
23/3/24: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Labour: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1880607/Keir-Starmer-triple-lock
22/3/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: WASPI Compensation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1880261/waspi-women-compensation
21/3/24: Daily Express: Triple Lock: Comment Column Dennis Reed: Tory triple lock manifesto promise is a great first election shot | Express Comment | Comment | Express.co.uk
21/3/24: Daily Express Front Page Story: Tories Triple Lock Promise: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1879818/pension-triple-lock-saved
21/3/24: Daily Mirror: Triple Lock: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-give-jeremy-hunt-election-32399259
21/3/24: Daily Express: Mel Stride and Snooping Powers: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1879856/Pensioners-snooping-fraud-mel-stride-benefits
20/3/24: Daily Express and Daily Mail: HMRC to Close Telephone Lines:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1879349/HMRC-phone-line-closed-six-months
17/3/24: BBC1 Laura Kuenssberg: Quote on Means-Tested Pensions and National Insurance
16/3/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Hunt, State Pensions and National Insurance: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1878083/Jeremy-Hunt-tax-pensioners-triple-lock
13/3/24: Daily Mail: Insurance Tax: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mailplus/article-13188871/The-8-2bn-stealth-tax-family-Britain-paying.html
8/3/24: Daily Express: Opinion Column from Dennis Reed on Budget: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1874861/budget-stunning-miscalculation-chancellor-dennis-reed
8/3/24: Daily Express: Hunt and Pensioners: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/jeremy-hunt-ive-done-an-enormous-amount-to-help-pensioners/ar-BB1jvcRd
8/3/24: Daily Mail: NHS and AI:
8/3/24: Daily Mail: NHS App Concerns: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13172943/NHS-app-start-tracking-steps-Britain-Big-Brother.html
8/3/24: Daily Mirror: Budget and Pensioners (Front Page Story): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-biggest-losers-jeremy-hunts-32294776
7/3/24: ITV Tonight: Online Britain/Digital Exclusion
7/3/24: Daily Telegraph: Victory on Online GP Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/06/gp-forced-patients-book-appointments-phone-nhs-contract/
6/3/24: LBC Live Budget Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Rc69vcS9k
6/3/24: Daily Express and Daily Mail: Pre-Budget Comment (also mention on Radio 4 Today)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1873996/Pensioners-budget-National-Insurance-tax
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13161385/jeremy-hunt-national-insurance-cut-budget.html
5/3/24: BBC Radio Sussex Interview: Digital Voice
4/3/24: Daily Express: Comment Column from Dennis Reed on Budget 2024: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1873525/Triple-Lock-Budget-Silver-Voices
4/3/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Budget: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1873237/Jeremy-Hunt-Budget-Personal-Taxes
3/3/24: Daily Mail: Self-Check Ins at Accident and Emergency: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13150125/A-E-patients-wade-14-PAGES-touch-screen-questions-asked-losing-lots-blood.html
3/3/24: Sunday Express (Front Page Story): Budget and the Grey Vote: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1873070/Fury-over-Budget-threat-to-ignore-pensioners
3/3/24: Sunday Mail: Shingles Jabs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13149465/nhs-shingles-vaccine-discrimination.html
1/3/24: Daily Mail: GP Same Day Appointment Experiment: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13143599/Health-service-initiative-offers-patients-chance-GP-day-one-15-chance-actually-seeing-doctor.html
29/2/24: Guardian: TV Licence Prosecutions: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/29/tv-licence-fee-scandal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised?ref=biztoc.com
29/2/24: Daily Telegraph: GP Same Day Appointment Experiment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/28/patients-little-chance-see-gp-in-nhs-same-day-acccess-plan/
28/2/24: Daily Mail: A&E Waits: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13135589/England-12-hour-waits-AE-quietest-UK-worst-queues.htm
27/2/24: Daily Express: Driving Tests for Over-65s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1871128/over-65-driving-test-petition-failure
27/2/24: Daily Mail: Cancer Survival Research: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13127193/Elderly-patients-denied-life-saving-cancer-care-NHS-major-study-warns.html
24/2/24: Daily Mail: NHS Chiefs Pay Rises:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13120025/NHS-chiefs-pay-rise-strike.html
21/2/24: Daily Express: Triple Lock Labour Pledge: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1868856/Labour-triple-lock-pensions-policy-warning
20/2/24: Daily Mail: Government Response to Digital Voice Petition: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103531/Governments-refusal-telecoms-firms-forced-digital-phone-line-rollout-disdainful-pensioners.html
20/2/24: Daily Express: Halt State Pension Age Rise to 67: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1868400/State-pension-age-hike-must-be-paused
17/2/24: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Overseas Dentists: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/16/foreign-dentists-allowed-work-uk-without-qualifications/
16/2/24: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Story): Four Week Waits for GPs: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/four-week-waits-for-gp-appointment-at-record-high-nhs-figures-show/ar-BB1illIY
14/2/24: Daily Mail: No Work for Locum GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13079007/The-locum-GP-wont-Freelance-doctors-charge-850-shift-work-wait-weeks-appointment.html
13/2/24: Sky News: Debate on Kay Burley Show: State Pension Age (available on Facebook and Twitter)
10/2/24: Talk TV: Peter Cardwell: Future of State Pension (available on YouTube)
5/2/24: Daily Express (including comment column from Dennis Reed): DWP Snooping Powers: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1863162/Pensioners-snooping-digital-freedom
2/2/24: Daily Mail: Landlines Petition Reaches Target: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13029315/Petition-delay-landlines-vulnerable-pensioners-government.html
31/1/24: Daily Mail: Pharmacy First: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13027141/Rishi-Sunaks-pharmacy-revolution-free-10million-GP-appointments-year-Major-NHS-shake-gives-chemists-power-dole-drugs-seven-minor-ailments.html
30/1/24: BBC Three Counties Radio Interview: Landlines Switchover
26/1/24: Daily Express: Eye Tests for Older Drivers: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1859905/older-drivers-eye-tests-driving-licence
25/1/24: Daily Express: Ofcom Options on Royal Mail: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1859464/Royal-Mail-Rishi-Sunak-delivery-services
23/1/24: Daily Express Royal Mail Cuts: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1858538/royal-mail-saturday-post
22/1/24: Daily Express Comment Column BBC Prosecutions: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1858196/bbc-silver-voices-group-dennis-reed
22/1/24: Daily Express: GP Funding Cuts: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1858146/gp-funding-liberal-democrats
21/1/24: Sunday Times: BBC and Single Justice Procedure (subscription only link)
21/1/24: Sunday Telegraph: Age Limits on Cancer Screening (no link available)
20/1/24: i newspaper: BBC Licence Fee Future: https://inews.co.uk/news/media/greg-dyke-make-licence-fee-free-benefits-wealthy-2863367
19/1/24: Daily Express: Digital Voice Petition and Dennis Reed Comment Column (also Mail Online)
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1857258/tories-scandal-vulnerable-pensioners
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1857289/telephone-landlines-petitions-concerns
16/1/24: BBC Radio Sussex: Interview on Landline Switch and various specialist business websites https://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/content/news/dpa-joins-petition-to-raise-awareness-of-pstn-switch-off
15/1/24: Daily Express: NHS Hospital Waiting Times: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1855598/accident-emergency-trolley-waits-lib-dems
12/1/24: Daily Mail: Possible GPs Industrial Action: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12952565/Now-GPs-threatening-strike-110-000-year-family-doctors-organise-industrial-action-ahead-general-election-later-year.html
11/1/24: BBC Radio Surrey: GP Redundancies (also Daily Telegraph)
7/1/24: Daily Telegraph: Intrusive NHS Questionnaire: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/nhs-patients-asked-genders-sexual-preferences-religion/
4/1/24: Daily Mail: Digital Voice Boycott (also Daily Express): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12922083/Pensioners-launch-boycott-forced-BT-digital-landline-switchover-Brits-told-DONT-cooperate-rollout-send-protest-letters-telecoms-providers-instead-amid-fears-millions-left-dark-event-outages.html
2/1/24: Daily Mirror: Bus Route Cuts: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bus-services-crisis-miles-driven-31784025
1/1/24: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Comment Column): GPs Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1850541/gp-appointment-doctor-liberal-democrats
31/12/23: Daily Telegraph: NHS Gift Vouchers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/30/nhs-splashes-out-4m-staff-gift-vouchers/
30/12/23: Guardian/Observer: Royal Mail Delays: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/30/royal-mail-fails-to-hit-first-class-delivery-target-in-every-uk-area
28/12/23: Daily Telegraph: Food Self-Service Counters: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/27/elderly-shut-out-restaurants-cut-costs-self-service-kiosks/
27/12/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Comment Column): Hospital Parking Charges: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1849313/hospital-parking-fees-abolish
27/12/23: Talk TV Interview: Hospital Parking Charges
27/12/23: Daily Mail: Hospital Parking Charges: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12902423/Hospital-patients-visitors-forced-fork-146-MILLION-parking-year-costs-soar.html
24/12/23: The Sun on Sunday: Face to Face GP Appointments; https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/25152726/nhs-doctors-failing-patients-remote-appointments/
24/12/23: Mail on Sunday: Hospital Discharges: Bullying Allegation: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/exclusive/article-12897121/Bullying-probe-launched-against-consultant-told-slacking-doctors-work-without-shoes-punishment-slow-discharge-elderly-patients-hospital.html
23/12/23: Daily Telegraph: Royal Mail Survey: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/22/royal-mail-telegraph-survey-delays-first-class-ofcom/
23/12/23: Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, the Sun: Junior Doctors’ Strike:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/25143167/nhs-gp-appointments-after-junior-doctor-strikes/
20/12/23: Daily Telegraph: Telecom Companies Blame Care Companies Over Digital Voice Problems: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/19/care-companies-not-doing-enough-to-protect-elderly-claims/
19/12/23: Daily Express: Dentistry Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1846934/dentist-nhs-health-teeth-decay
18/12/23: Daily Mail: NHS Waiting Lists: https://mailonline.pressreader.com/article/281878713169917
18/12/23: Daily Telegraph: Digital Voice Pause (Front Page Story): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/18/bt-and-rivals-told-to-stop-forcing-digital-landlines/
Also: Radio 4 Today, Radio 2 Jeremy Vine, BBC TV News Interviews and The Guardian and Daily Mail Articles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12877065/bt-pause-digital-landlines-alarms-stopped.html
15/12/23: Daily Mirror: Triple Lock and Labour: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-committed-pension-triple-lock-31671159
14/12/23: Daily Mail: Digital Voice Horror Story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-12860281/BTs-digital-landline-switchover-horror-story-problems-pensioners-phones.html
13/12/23: Daily Mail: Digital Voice: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-12858575/bt-digital-landline-switchover-pensioners-woes-phone-access-alarms.html
13/12/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock and IFS Proposals: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1844803/pensions-triple-lock-system-overhaul-proposals-criticism
12/12/23: BBC You and Yours: Digital Exclusion
10/12/23: Sunday Telegraph: Online GP Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/09/health-chiefs-failing-older-patients-break-face-gp-pledge/
9/12/23: Daily Mail (Front Page Story): Royal Mail Letters Delays: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12843565/Christmas-Royal-Mail-cards-cancer-scans.html
9/12/23: Daily Express: TV Licence Prosecutions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1843434/BBC-licence-fee-TV-payment
6/12/23: Daily Express: Broadcast Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1842783/broadcast-tv-radio-2040
5/12/23: Daily Mirror: Migration and Social Care: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tories-unveil-migration-crackdown-31595013.amp
5/12/23: Daily Express: BBC Licence Fee and over-75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1841982/tv-licence-fee-rise-inflation
4/12/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Manifestos: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1841627/State-pension-triple-lock-campaign-Rishi-Sunak
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