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 SILVER VOICES QUOTES/ MENTIONS IN NATIONAL MEDIA
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
(some content lost this week because of website problems)
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
30/11/23: Daily Express: GP Continuity: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1840572/patients-same-GP
30/11/23: Daily Express and OECD threat to Triple Lock (no link available)
29/11/23: Daily Telegraph (Front Page Lead): Dangers of Virtual GP Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/29/patients-at-risk-from-virtual-gp-appointments/
Also Interview on Jeremy Vine Radio 2 Show
28/11/23: Daily Mail: 97 Year Old in Neighbour Dispute: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12798811/Pictured-Neighbour-97-year-old-pensioners-life-living-hell-complaining-feeding-birds-garden-two-year-ordeal-saw-threatened-100-fine-bully-council.html
24/11/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock Aftermath (plus comment column): https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20231124/281621015081645
23/11/23: ITV Tonight: Age Discrimination on Motor Insurance
23/11/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock Victory (Front Page Story): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1837780/Triple-lock-State-pension-campaign-victory
22/11/23: Daily Express: Autumn Statement: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20231122/281685439586447
21/11/23: Daily Express: Media Bill: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1837401/TV-traditional-protect-campaign
21/11/23: Channel 5 Jeremy Vine: Discussion on Triple Lock
21/11/23: Daily Telegraph: GP Waiting Times Worse than Rwanda: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/21/gp-access-easier-rwanda-than-britain-study-nhs/
20/11/23: Daily Express: Frozen Pensions: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20231120/281960317489058
20/11/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Comment Column) Honour the Triple Lock (also mentioned by Radio 4 Today): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1836772/jeremy-hunt-older-voters-triple-lock-figures
19/11/23: Observer/Guardian: Digital Voice: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/20/as-uk-landlines-go-digital-fears-grow-for-vulnerable-people-whose-home-phone-is-a-lifeline
16/11/23: Mail Online: Pharmacy First:
14/11/23: The Times Mark Porter Column GP Appointments (behind paywall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-get-appointment-gp-dr-mark-porter-advice-2023-2vqb99v6k
13/11/23: The Elusive GP Survey:
Daily Telegraph Front Page: GPs ‘elusive species’ as eight in 10 elderly patients have to accept phone appointments (telegraph.co.uk)
Daily Express: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1834213/GP-appointment-nhs-digital-barrier
Daily Mirror: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/three-quarters-pensioners-struggled-gp-31419864
11/11/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Government Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1833788/state-pension-jeremy-hunt-triple-lock
11/11/23: The Sun: Morrisons Cut Cash Points: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/24698750/morrisons-self-checkout-card-cash/
10/11/23: Daily Mirror: Social Care Crisis: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/social-care-shake-up-budget-31400399
31/10/23: Scottish Sun: Grotesque Masks to Advertise Day Centre: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/11450058/bizarre-grotesque-advert-slammed-for-demeaning-scots-pensioners/
28/10/23: Daily Telegraph: Use of Physician Associates rather than GPs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/27/nhs-gp-surgery-appointments-family-doctors/
25/10/23: Silver Insights Research on Traditional TV and Radio (Save Freeview) Mirror, Express and Scottish Mail:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20231025/281968907369722
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/save-tv-radio-pensioners-delay-31269538
25/10/23: Daily Mail: Insurance Hikes for Older Drivers: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/the-rise-of-the-1-000-car-insurance-bill/ar-AA1iMRYR
25/10/23: Daily Mail: GPs Queue Jumping: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12667171/How-doctors-JUMPING-NHS-queue-treated-quicker-you.html
23/10/23: Daily Express: Lobby Tory MPs on Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1826777/pensioners-triple-lock-conservatives-warning
19/10/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock Fears: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1825356/Rishi-Sunak-Triple-Lock-Pensions-Silver-Voices
18/10/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock Spread: no web link available
15/10/23: Sunday Mail: Insurance Premiums Tax: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12631803/Chancellor-urged-slash-7BILLION-stealth-tax-insurance-policies-industrys-trade-body.html
15/10/23: Sunday Telegraph: Hospitals Rats and Mice Infestations: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/14/rat-infestations-plague-nhs-hospitals/
14/10/23: Daily Telegraph: Private GP Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/13/private-gp-appointments-triple-nhs-waiting-lists-grow/
12/10/23: Daily Telegraph: Age Discrimination in Cancer Screening: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/nhs-age-discrimination-breast-cancer-screening-bowel-cervix/ . Story also in the Daily Express.
10/10/23: Daily Express: Zero VAT on Prescriptions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1822183/Medicine-saving-VAT-change
9/10/23: Radio 4 You and Yours: Digital Voice (available on BBC Sounds)
8/10/23: Sunday Mirror: Sunak Speech: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-totally-ignored-older-31129913
2/10/23: Daily Express: Silver Manifesto: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1818755/Triple-lock-pension-survey-rishi-sunak
2/10/23: Daily Mail: Online GP Appointments: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/health-news/patients-speak-to-gp-online-or-on-video-for-one-in-50-appointments/ar-AA1hxCj6
27/9/23: BBC Local Radio Dennis Reed Interview on Digital Voice covered by Mail Online:
27/9/23: Daily Mail: Digital Voice Roll-Out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12563539/BT-cutting-pledge-landlines-switch-digital-phones.html
26/9/23: Daily Express: Gordon Brown and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1816705/gordon-brown-triple-lock-pension
25/9/23: Daily Express: Comment Column by Dennis Reed on Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1816287/rishi-sunak-tax-cuts-pensions-protection
22/9/23: LBC Nick Ferrari Interview with Dennis Reed on Triple Lock (55mins in): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chancellor-jeremy-hunt-speaks-to-nick-ferrari/id1486756254?i=1000628810919
22/9/23: Daily Express: Chancellor and the Triple Lock: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20230922/281642489786085
21/9/23: Mail Online: GPs and Hospital Referrals: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12545675/GPs-told-ask-hospital-consultants-referrals-amid-warnings.html
20/9/23: Daily Mail: Age Discrimination in Insurance:
20/9/23: Daily Express Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1814562/triple-lock-petition-silver-voices
20/9/23: Daily Express: Traditional TV Viewing: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20230920/281578065272030
19/9/23: Daily Express (Front Page and Editorial Comment): Triple Lock Petition https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1814198/Laura-Trott-triple-lock-penion-latest
18/9/23: Daily Express: Labour and the Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1814024/labour-keir-starmer-triple-lock-petition
16/9/23: Daily Express: Support for Triple Lock Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1813441/pension-triple-lock-warning-lord-foulkes
16/9/23: Daily Mirror: Ticket Offices Campaign: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/railway-stations-ticket-office-closure-30951445
15/9/23: iNews: Triple Lock: https://inews.co.uk/news/shameful-britain-old-state-pension-worse-off-2618213
15/9/23: Daily Mail: Accident and Emergency Pressures: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/a-e-delays-fuelled-by-gp-appointment-crisis-experts-claim/ar-AA1gM4SO
15/9/23: Daily Express: Labour and the Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1812997/starmer-triple-lock
14/9/23: Daily Express Front Page and Comment Column: Triple Lock Petition:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1812557/triple-lock-pension-rish-sunak-betrayal
13/9/23: Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror on Triple Lock:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fears-triple-lock-pension-end-30927871
13/9/23: Daily Express Front Page: Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1812193/rishi-sunak-triple-lock-betrayal-pensioners
11/9/23: Daily Express: Dennis Reed Comment Column on Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1811401/triple-lock-pensions-politicians-rishi-sunak-dennis-reed
11/9/23: Daily Express: Sunak and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1811365/rishi-sunak-state-pension-triple-lock
8/9/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story and Comment Column by Dennis Reed): Triple Lock Threats: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1810615/Triple-lock-pension-threat-retirement-age
8/9/23: Daily Mail: Triple Lock and IFS: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12494203/Triple-lock-given-OAPs-1-200-year-income-boost-report-shows-report-finds-ministers-face-insurmountable-pressure-raise-state-pension-age-faster.html
5/9/23: Daily Mirror: Digital Voice: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bt-stops-offering-traditional-landlines-30859320
5/9/23: Daily Express: Digital Voice: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1809417/UK-landline-switch-off-date-internet-calling
4/9/23: Daily Express: TV Licences and Cost-of-Living (article, comment column and leader opinion column): https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1808990/bbc-tv-licence-payments-cost-of-living
1/9/23: Daily Mail: GP Salaries and Drop in Face to Face Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12465447/GP-salaries-soar-12-000-face-face-appointments-plummet-official-data-reveals.html
1/9/23: Daily Telegraph: GP Salaries and Drop in Face to Face Appointments: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/gp-pay-up-20pc-despite-seeing-third-fewer-patients/ar-AA1g39eP
31/8/23: Daily Express: Digital Voice Breach of Faith (no link available)
30/8/23: Interview on You and Yours Radio 4: DVLA Delays: Available on BBC Sounds 36 minutes into programme
22/8/23: Daily Mail Online: Overseas Nurses: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12421189/Spend-penny-dogs-dinner-Royal-College-Nursing-creates-guide-slang-foreign-medics.html
21/8/23: Daily Mail (also Daily Telegraph): GPs Setting Daily Patient Limits: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12427017/Nearly-four-ten-GP-surgeries-set-limits-number-patients-deal-day-survey-finds-BMA-calls-doctors-25-people-day-redirect-miss-services-111.html
17/8/23: LBC Interview with Colin Brazier on Triple Lock (available on Global Player)
15/8/23: Daily Mirror: Age Discrimination: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-blast-disdainful-tories-ministers-30697007
13/8/23: Sunday Express: Equity Release and Older People: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-express-1070/20230813/281672554473900
11/8/23: Daily Express: Triple Lock and Labour: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1800971/labour-triple-lock-pensions
8/8/23: Daily Express: BBC and Over 75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1799667/BBC-TV-licence-over-75s-free-pay
6/8/23: Sunday Telegraph: GPs Refusing Face to Face Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/one-in-six-gps-fail-to-see-patients-face-to-face-nhs/
5/8/23: Daily Mirror: Manchester United Digital Only Season Tickets: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manutd-season-ticket-statement-allegations-30635630
5/8/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Married Women Pension Injustice: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1798975/pension-injustice-victory-victims
4/8/23: Daily Mirror (Front Page Story): Older Workers Get On Your Bike: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-tory-tebbit-tells-cash-30624926
3/8/23: Daily Mirror: Ticket Office Madness: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-attack-completely-mad-plans-30610436
2/8/23: Daily Express: Older People and Mortgages:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1797624/pensioners-cost-of-living-mortgage-retirement-crisis
29/7/23: Daily Express: Freeview TV Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1796355/Keep-us-tuned-in-Freeview-petition
28/7/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Labour Party and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1796054/triple-lock-pension-protection-labour-keir-starmer
28/7/23: Daily Express: Ageism Petition Reaches 10K Signatures (no link available)
21/7/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Pension Pots and Inheritance Income Tax: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1793480/treasury-axe-pension-tax-break
21/7/23: Mail Online: GP patient ratings: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12318979/Worst-rated-GP-practices-England-ranked-Shock-NHS-analysis-reveals-just-one-10-patients-happy-surgeries-use-table-fares.html
18/7/23: Daily Express: Ticket Office Closures: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1792495/train-station-closures-age-discrimination
13 July 2023: Daily Mail: Junior Doctors Strike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12290765/Junior-doctors-told-use-5-day-NHS-strike-picnic.html
9 July 2023: Daily Telegraph: No GP Walk-In Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/08/gps-refuse-book-appointments-patients-walking-in-surgeries/
9 July 2023: Sunday Mail: Comparing GP and AI Advice: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12278145/DR-ELLIE-CANNON-asks-AI-Bot-doctor-help-shocked-advice.html
8 July 2023: Daily Telegraph: Junior Doctors’ Strike: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/07/junior-doctors-strikes-nhs-more-money-to-work-walkouts/
6 July 2023: BBC TV Look North: Interview on Parking Apps and Ticket Offices: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001njwf/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-06072023
29 June 2023: Daily Mail Front Page Story: Consultants’ Strike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12244545/Fury-NHS-consultants-128-000-allowed-PRIVATE-work-strike-days.html
28 June LBC Radio: Dennis Reed Interview on Triple Lock
28 June 2023: Daily Express: Ageism Petition Launch: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1785324/public-inquiry-age-discrimination-older-people-silver-voices
20 June 2023: Daily Express: Triple Lock Fury: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1782385/pension-triple-lock-william-hague
13 June 2023: Daily Express: Silver Voices Age Discrimination Survey: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1780053/ageism-over-60s-work-survey-silver-voices
9 June 2023: Daily Mirror: Further Delay to Social Care Cap: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-blasted-over-delay-30192408
2 June 2023: Daily Telegraph: Heat Wave Warnings: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/new-heatwave-warnings-not-nanny-state-health-officials/
1 June 2023: Daily Telegraph: Digital Voice Roll-Out: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/bt-relaunches-wifi-phone-roll-out/
30-31 May: Daily Telegraph and Daily Express: Marks and Spencer Snubs to Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1775821/m-s-snubbed-elderly-customers-going-cashless
26/5/23: Daily Mail: Hospital Waiting Lists: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12123107/Waiting-list-lengths-hospital-REVEALED-search-tool.html
26/5/23: Daily Express: Access to Cash: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1774369/Banks-customers-access-cash
24/5/23: Daily Telegraph: Marks and Spencer Self-Check Outs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/24/marks-spencer-self-service-tills-clothing-homeware/
22/5/23: Daily Express: Campaign for £320 per week Living Pension: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1773137/State-pension-rise-replace-Pension-Credit
20/5/23: Daily Mail: GPs and Fees: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12104317/GPs-demand-right-charge-NHS-patients-allowing-pay-jump-line.html
17/5/23: Daily Express: Expansion of Freeview Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1771117/traditional-tv-freeview-streaming-services-coalition
16/5/23: Daily Mail: Abandoning 3G Network: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-12090095/Could-3G-shutdown-leave-mobile-phone-blackspot.html
13/5/23: Daily Express: EHRC Fails Older People (no web link)
11/5/23: Daily Mirror: Travel Insurance Discrimination: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/older-holidaymakers-face-prohibitive-travel-29948156
1/5/23: Daily Express: Government and BBC: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1764689/government-overhaul-tv-licence-fee
28/4/23: Daily Telegraph: Supermarket Discounts and Older People: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/28/supermarkets-accused-locking-out-elderly/
27/4/23: Daily Express: Freeview Petition Grows (and Comment Column from Dennis Reed): https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1763226/Keep-Us-Tuned-In-crusade-protect-television
26/4/23: This is Money: Older People and Cash: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-12016315/Cash-usage-plummets-older-generation.html
26/4/23: Daily Mirror Social Care Crisis: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-told-act-now-save-29805037
25/4/23: Daily Express: BBC and Over-75s: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1762083/bbc-free-tv-licence-over-75s
25/4/23: Daily Mail: Short GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12007879/The-GP-couple-minutes.html
25/4/23: The Sun: Short GP Appointments https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/22148013/nhs-figures-show-millions-gp-appointments-rushed/
22/4/23: Daily Mail: National Trust and Parking Apps: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12001201/Two-MILLION-face-parking-meter-deserts-councils-scrap-traditional-pay-display-meters.html
19/4/23: The Sun: 999 and Ambulance Waits: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/22079918/patients-wait-hour-half-ambulance-calls-answered/
18/4/23: Daily Mail: Mixed Hospital Wards: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11982173/Number-NHS-patients-placed-mixed-sex-wards-reaches-time-high-nearly-5-000.html
16/4/23: Sun on Sunday: Hospital Coffee Costs: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/22054412/costa-coffee-ten-p-surcharge-refreshments-nhs-outlets/
16/4/23: Mail on Sunday: Cashless Parking: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11977555/APPalling-baffled-drivers-tap-phone-226-TIMES-just-park-cars.html
16/4/23: Sunday Telegraph: Ageist Language: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/15/old-age-youth-trigger-warning-exeter-university/
14/4/23:Daily Express: Cash Famine: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1758107/bank-branch-closures-cash-machines
13/4/23: Daily Express: Savings and the Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1757599/triple-lock-pensioners-savings
7/4/23: Daily Mirror: Cashless Parking: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/campaigners-welcome-calls-keep-cash-29646562
6/4/23: Talk TV Interview with Dennis Reed on Apps and Older People (Interview 2.26 into programme): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrCnqzux8g
7/4/23: Daily Mail: Difficulty Getting GP Appointments:
6/4/23: Daily Express: Lifetime Allowances (Pensions):
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1755736/State-pension-Jeremy-Hunt-lifetime-allowance-tax
4/4/23: Daily Express: Retirement Age at 67 Should be Shelved: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1754678/state-pension-age-rise
30/3/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story: State Pension Age Rise Delayed: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1752551/state-pension-age-rise-delayed
25/3/23: Sunday Mail: Digital Voice Roll-Out: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11901629/BT-defies-critics-restart-rollout-controversial-digital-phones.html
22/3/23: Daily Express: Over 75s Revolt on TV Licences: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1749247/BBC-TV-licence-fee-evasion
18/3/23: Daily Express Front Page and Comment Column: Potential Licence Fee Rises: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1747847/bbc-TV-licence-fee-rise
16/3/23: Daily Express: Budget Comment: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1746932/jeremy-hunt-spring-budget-2023-at-a-glance
13/3/23: Daily Mirror: Budget and Energy Support: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/energy-bills-nightmare-looms-closer-29439134
13/3/23: Daily Express: Comment Column by Dennis Reed on Budget:
11/3/23: Daily Express: Budget and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1745007/State-pension-Jeremy-Hunt-triple-lock-budget-march
7/3/23: Daily Mail: New GP Contract: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11827209/Patients-GP-slot-referred-time-call.html
6/3/23: Daily Express: Freeview Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1742632/protect-traditional-tv-petition-government
4/3/23: Daily Express: Fuel Poverty and Older People (also article on deaths while waiting for social care, no link available):
1/3/23: Daily Express: Working Pensioners Income Cuts: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1740672/pensioners-income-jeremy-hunt-budget-boost
27/2/23: Daily Express: Energy Price Cap and State Pension: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1740000/state-pension-energy-price-cap-ofgem-energy-bills-cost
25/2/23: Daily Express: Frozen Pensions Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1739285/state-pension-freeze-british-expats-silver-voices-dennis-reed
22/2/23: Daily Mail: More Receptionists Than GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11775115/GPs-outnumbered-RECEPTIONISTS-practices.html
19/2/23: Sunday Mirror: Frozen Pensions: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nearly-500000-brits-overseas-face-29251189
18/2/23: Daily Mirror: Tim Davie and Licence Fee: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/angry-viewers-challenge-flippant-bbc-29245528
18/2/23: Daily Express: TV Licences and Tim Davie (Comment Column Dennis Reed as part of front page splash) https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1736251/bbc-tv-licence-fee-non-payment-prosecution
16/2/23: inews: MW and LW Broadcasts to be Discontinued: https://inews.co.uk/culture/radio/bbc-radio-switching-off-long-wave-shipping-forecast-install-new-alert-system-2151199
14/2/23: Daily Mirror: Freeview Petition: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pressure-mounts-tories-save-terrestrial-29205888
14/2/23: Daily Mail: GP/ Patient Ratios: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747055/Number-patients-family-doctor-highest-level-population-grows.html
14/2/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Council Tax Rises: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1734327/council-tax-rises-cost-of-living-bills
11/2/23: Daily Express: Save Freeview Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1733455/save-traditional-tv-express-campaign
11/2/23: Daily Mail: ATM Closures: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738419/Number-free-use-cash-machines-fall-lowest-levels-decade.html
10/2/23: GB News: Threats to Triple Lock: https://www.gbnews.uk/money/state-pension-triple-lock-under-threat-fears-grow-policy-to-be-scrapped-its-hard-to-justify/440024
9/2/23: Daily Express: Frozen Pensions Campaign:
8/2/23: Daily Mirror: Call a General Election in 2023: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/oaps-demand-general-election-amid-29154796
8/2/23: Daily Mail: National Savings Age Discrimination: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-11723339/Why-NS-turning-away-older-savers-new-4-bond.html
8/2/23: Daily Mail: NHS Branding: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11724597/NHS-fire-hiring-branding-agency-improve-image-amid-strikes-waiting-list-crisis.html
2/2/23: Daily Express: New Threat to Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1729501/state-pension-triple-lock-unsustainable
31/1/23: Daily Mail: Virtual GP Wards: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11694183/Minister-faces-backlash-claim-patients-comfortable-attending-GP-appointments-online.html
31/1/23: Daily Express Front Page Story: GP Appointment Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1728381/nhs-crisis-brits-unable-to-see-gp
29/1/23: Sunday Express: Water Bills: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1727529/water-bills-cost-of-living-rise-poverty-anglian-thames-water-united-utilities
27/1/23: Daily Express (Dennis Reed Opinion Column): Bank Closures: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1726871/banking-uk-branch-closure
27/1/23: Daily Mail: Virtual Reality Training for Nurses: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11681683/Student-nurses-quarter-practical-training-using-virtual-reality-new-shake-up.html
26/1/23: Daily Express (Front Page): Dying of Cold: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1726372/cost-of-living-crisis-bills-energy-vulnerable-pensioners-ambulance-workers-silver-voices
25/1/23: Daily Express (online): Warning to Sunak on State Pension Age Rises: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1725934/state-pension-age-changes-Rishi-Sunak-retirement-UK
25/1/23: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Threats to State Pension Age: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1725678/State-pension-age-change-pensioners-poverty-retirement-age-increase
24/1/23: Daily Mail: Continuing Difficulties with GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11654929/Why-Brits-struggling-face-face-GP-appointment.html
24/1/23: Daily Express: Save Freeview Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1725185/traditional-tv-radio-streaming-services-netflix-rishi-sunak-campaign
18/1/23: Daily Mail: Visitors Covering for Nurses: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646423/Hospital-accused-risking-patients-health-asking-FAMILIES-help-wards.html
17/1/23: Daily Telegraph: Families Asked to Cover for Striking Nurses: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/17/nurses-strike-patients-families-hospitals/
16/1/23: Daily Mail: Labour proposals on self-referrals: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638729/There-danger-people-turn-Dr-Google-Health-experts-slam-Labour-plan-NHS-reforms.html
14/1/23: Daily Mail: Bank Branch Closures: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-11627327/Bank-closures-Yorkshire-lose-branches-2023.html
1/1/23: Sunday Express: Million More Pensioners to Pay Tax (no link available)
27/12/22: Daily Express: Dennis Reed Comment Column on BBC Rebranding: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1714081/bbc-rebranding-new-logos-millions-pounds-elderly-tv-licence-fee
26/12/22: Daily Express: BBC Threatening Letters: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1714013/bbc-fees-christmas-letters-warning-older-people-licence-fee
22/12/22: Daily Mail: Ambulance Delays: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11565729/How-ambulances-stuck-outside-hospital.html
21/12/22: Daily Express: BBC and Cost-of-Living: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1710341/BBC-licence-fee-cost-of-living-crisis-update-pensioners
21/12/22: The Times and Daily Mail: Digital Radio: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11556425/Extra-time-Radio-4-spin-spared-axe-boss-reveals-closure-not-deal.html
20/12/22: Daily Express: Success on Energy Support Payments: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1711507/pensioners-living-off-grid-energy-support-payments
17/12/22: Daily Express: Off-Grid Energy Support: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1710484/off-grid-park-homes-heating-energy-support-delay
16/12/22: TalkTV: Interview on NHS Strikes: https://twitter.com/FirstEdition/status/1603878397163233281
16/12/22: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Nurses Strike: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1710080/rishi-sunak-strikes-nurses-nhs-pay-silver-voices-jake-berry
11/12/22: Sunday Express: Winter Energy Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1707903/pensioners-warning-big-freeze-winter-heating
7/12/22: Daily Mail: Pension Credit Delays: Civil service meltdown leaves pensioners waiting SIX MONTHS for vital cash | This is Money
6/12/22: Daily Express: 2040 Freeview Campaign: MPs urged to protect traditional TV and radio | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
5/12/22: Daily Mail: Digital Health Checks: Patients will be asked to fill out health check forms ONLINE in bid to ease GP workloads | Daily Mail Online
5/12/22: Daily Express: Digital Health Checks: NHS news: Older people made feel like ‘second class citizens’ | UK | News | Express.co.uk
5/12/22: Daily Mirror: Save Freeview: Campaigners urge Government to fight for traditional TV and radio signals – Mirror Online
30/11/22: Daily Express: DWP Pension Blunders: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1703104/dwp-underpayments-state-pension-ministers-pensioners
27/11/22: Sunday Express: Caring Christmas Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1702175/rishi-sunak-campaign-Sunday-express-caring-christmas-crusade
26/11/22: Daily Express: Nurses’ Strike: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1701680/rishi-sunak-nurses-strike-pay-hikes-nhs
25/11/22: Daily Mail: GPs Core Hours: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11468433/Outrage-GPs-vote-work-9-5-Fears-worsen-appointment-crisis.html
November/December 2022 Parliament Magazine: Article on BBC Licence Enforcement Policies: https://parliamentnews.co.uk/time-to-end-the-scandal-of-prosecuting-people-for-non-payment-of-bbc-licences-says-new-campaign
20/11/22: Sunday Mirror: TV Licences and MPs: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/21-tory-mps-claimed-tv-28534732
18/11/22: Triple Lock Victory (Front Page Story and opinion piece by Dennis Reed) : https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1698121/Jeremy-Hunt-triple-lock-state-pension-Express-campaign-budget-autumn-statement
17/11/22: Daily Mail: Social Care Cap Delay:
17/11/22: Daily Express: Preview of Autumn Statement: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1697612/Jeremy-Hunt-budget-today-autumn-statement-tax-rises-spending-cuts-UK-economy-inflation
16/11/22: Daily Express: 11% Inflation and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1697206/state-pension-inflation-CPI-news-cost-of-living-crisis
15/11/22: Daily Express Leader: Triple Lock Campaign Closing in on Victory: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1696629/triple-lock-state-pension-autumn-statement-sunak-hunt-economy-uk-morrissons-immigration
15/11/22: Daily Express Front Page Story: PM Hints on Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1696426/rishi-sunak-triple-lock-pledge-express-campaign
11/11/22: Daily Express Front Page Story: Threats to Social Care Cap: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1695079/pensioners-care-cost-cap-triple-lock-rishi-sunak-jeremy-hunt-uk-economy
10/11/22: Daily Mirror: Threats to Social Care Cap: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fury-rishi-sunak-over-delay-28456801
10/11/22: Daily Express: Hammond and Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1694996/State-pension-triple-lock-news-benefit-philip-hammond
8/11/22: Daily Mail: Ambulance Crisis: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11400335/A-million-calls-ambulance-ended-without-patients-getting-face-face-treatment.html
7/11/22: Daily Express Front Page: Senior Tories Support Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1693010/triple-lock-rishi-sunak-pensioners-express-petition-state-pension-conservatives
5/11/22: Daily Express Front Page: Electoral Consequences for Tories on Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1692477/pensioners-rishi-sunak-triple-lock-voters-rebellion
3/11/22: Scottish Daily Express: Rishi Sunak Under Pressure From Silver Voices Petition (similar article in Daily Express):
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/message-you-rishi-sunak-150000-28394146
2/11/22: Daily Express: 50,000 Sign Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1691133/state-pension-triple-lock-rishi-sunak-express-petition
2/11/22: Money Mail: Energy Price Hikes: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11377993/Chaos-confusion-rocketing-energy-bills.html
1/11/22: Daily Express: Triple Lock Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1690209/government-axe-triple-lock-state-pension-budget-black-hole
29/10/22: Daily Express: TV Licence Prosecutions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1689160/bbc-tv-licence-fee-non-payment-prosecution-pensioners
28/10/22: Daily Express Front Page: Silver Voices/Express Triple Lock Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1688732/rishi-sunak-pension-triple-lock-campaign-petition
27/10/22: Daily Mirror: Raid on Pensions: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-threatens-take-hundreds-28337726
27/10/22: Daily Express Front Page: Triple Lock Fears: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1688177/State-pension-triple-lock-Rishi-sunak
27/10/22: Daily Telegraph: Remote GP Appointments:
23/10/22: Sunday Express: Older People as Second Class Citizens: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1686479/cost-of-living-crisis-elderly-silver-voices-dennis-reed
22/10/22: Daily Express: Older People and Tory Leadership Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1686201/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-leadership-race-uk-conservative
21/10/22: Blood Supplies and Elective Operations: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11340779/NHS-blood-supplies-bounce-back.html
19/10/22: Daily Mirror: Triple Lock Fury: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-faces-election-suicide-28273354
19/10/22: Daily Mirror: Silver Voices Energy Costs Survey: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/overwhelming-majority-pensioners-fear-unable-28271087
19/10/22: Daily Express (Front Page Story): Threats to Triple Lock (also i newspaper): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1684597/liz-truss-tory-triple-lock-pensioners-state-pension-uk-economy
14/10/22: Daily Telegraph: Tesco Digital Exclusion: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/tesco-bars-shopper-buying-sandwich-doesnt-have-app/
13/10/22: GB News Interview with Dennis Reed on NHS Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWHFjz62Tyc
12/10/22: Daily Mail: Energy Crisis Special: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11303013/Can-REALLY-earn-120-doing-washing-night-winter.html
11/10/22: Daily Express: Energy Support not Enough (plus supportive leader opinion): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1680891/pensioners-energy-bills-liz-truss-cost-of-living
7/10/22: Daily Express (front page story): Energy Blackouts: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1679389/winter-blackouts-energy-ukraine-electricity-households-liz-truss-Ofgem
7/10/22: Daily Telegraph: Premium Bonds and Digital Exclusion: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/nsi-savers-without-mobile-phones-blocked-premium-bond-accounts/
6/10/22: Daily Mail: NHS Advice to Patients on Exercise and GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11286969/Fury-NHSs-absolutely-ridiculous-guidance-ask-GP-permission-exercise-winter.html
5/10/22: Daily Mail: Overseas Nurses: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11281461/Foreign-nurses-fail-English-test-hired-NHS.html
4/10/22: Daily Mirror and Daily Express: Truss Does Not Rule Out State Pension Age Changes:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-declines-rule-out-28149797
30/9/22: Daily Mirror: Triple Lock Jeopardy: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pension-triple-lock-fears-campaigners-28116790
29/9/22: Daily Express: Dennis Reed Comment Column: Pensioners Worried Sick: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1675836/run-on-pensions-what-pensions-at-risk-pensioners-campaign-group-pension-value
27/9/22: Daily Express: Budget and Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1674360/State-pension-triple-lock-Kwasi-Kwarteng-mini-budget
27/9/22: Daily Mail: GP Emergency Procedures: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11252369/Struggling-GPs-pressure-refuse-patients-send-surgeries.htm
26/9/22: Daily Express Leader Column: BBC Campaign: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-express/20220926/281801402832697
26/9/22: Daily Express (and Sunday Times 25/9/22): Campaign on BBC Prosecutions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1674164/bbc-prosecutions-older-viewers-britain-economic-crisis-tv-licence
23/9/22: Daily Mail: GPs Encouraged to Go to Canada: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11242489/UK-GP-body-advertises-316k-jobs-Canada-despite-complaining-crippling-staffing-shortage.html
8/9/22: Daily Express: Energy Cap Announcement: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1666649/pensioners-energy-bills-freeze-Liz-Truss-support-hel
5/9/22: Daily Mirror (Front Page Story): Truss Energy Package: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-leaves-struggling-families-27906512
5/9/22: Daily Express: Silver Voices Energy Bills Advice: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1664531/silver-voices-state-pensioners-energy-bills-advice
5/9/22: Daily Express: Closure of Cash Machines: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1664573/free-cash-machines-withdrawals-atms-uk-Notemachine-silver-voices-Link
4/9/22: Sunday Express: Heating Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1664383/elderly-cost-of-living-crisis-families-winter-heating-energy-bills
2/9/22: Daily Telegraph(Front Page Story): Record GP Salaries: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/01/gps-given-record-pay-rises-covid-pandemic/
31/8/22: CNN International: UK Pensioners Plight: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/31/business/uk-cost-of-living-crisis-elderly-tory-leadership-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html
31/8/22: Daily Express: Comment Column on GP crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1662482/GP-appointment-survey-family-doctor-health-news-latest
31/8/22: Daily Express: State Pension Not Enough: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1662401/state-pension-pensioners-bills-cost-of-living-inflation-silver-voices
29/8/22: Daily Express(Front Page Story): Access to Cash: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1661639/cash-phased-out-five-years-banks-atm-cards-online-banking
28/8/22: Daily Telegraph: Zoom Call to Certify Death: (also Daily Mail 29/8) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/28/widow-forced-verify-husbands-death-video-call-gp-would-not-visit/
26/8/22: Daily Express: Price Explosion: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1660602/pensioners-energy-bills-price-cap-ofgem-rise-increase
25/8/22: Mail Online: Postcode Lottery on GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11145111/GP-access-postcode-lottery-Just-half-consultations-face-face-parts-England.html
24/8/22: Daily Express: Pensions Petition Rejected: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1659524/state-pension-payments-minimum-guarantee-petition-DWP
23/8/22: Daily Express Front Page Story: Catastrophic Inflation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1658883/inflation-rise-highest-50-years-uk-catastrophic-economist-millions-cost-of-living-update
21/8/22: Daily Mail: GPs and “Bonkers” Energy Discount Plan: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11133611/Patients-hit-plans-GPs-write-prescriptions-cheaper-energy-bills.html
20/8/22: Daily Mail: Virtual NHS Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11128953/Back-panic-stations-NHS-chiefs-prepare-Covid-style-campaign-urging-people-avoid-E.html
18/8/22: Daily Express: State Pension Increases: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1657190/state-pension-payouts-inflation-cost-of-living-crisis
15/8/22: Daily Mail: Hospital Roof Dangers: https://mailonline.pressreader.com/article/281827172548968
14/8/22: Sunday Express: Tory Hopefuls and Cost of Living: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1655054/pensioners-cost-of-living-silver-voices-tory-leadership-race-sunak-truss-state-pension
13/8/22: Daily Mail: Octopus Energy Friday Parties: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11107523/Dont-call-Octopus-Energy-4pm-Friday-thats-staff-crack-open-booze.html
12/8/22: Daily Mail: NHS Cyber Attack: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11105439/Data-privacy-fears-GPs-sharing-patient-records-Word-documents.html
11/8/22: Daily Mirror: £200 per week Petition: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-call-200-week-guaranteed-27710213
11/8/22: Daily Mirror: Virtual Hospital Appointments (and LBC Radio Interview): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/nhs-patients-offered-virtual-hospital-2770846
10/8/22: Daily Telegraph: Virtual Hospital Appointments: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/09/risk-waiting-longer-want-face-to-face-hospital-appointment-patients/
10/8/22: Daily Express: Heat Wave Health Warning: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1653067/health-alert-UK-heatwave-vulnerable-people-at-risk
9/8/22: Daily Express: Truss and Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1652363/pensioners-triple-lock-tory-leadership-rishi-sunak-inflation
8/8/22: Daily Record: £200 per Week Petition: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/state-pension-petition-awaits-response-27682342
7/8/22: Sunday Express: BBC and Cost of Living: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1651711/tv-licence-fee-bbc-pensioners-silver-voices-dennis-reed-inflation-cost-of-living
7/8/22: Sunday Mirror: Older People and Cost of Living: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-just-8p-better-were-27617865
3/8/22: Daily Mail: Loyalty Cards and Apps: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11074397/Which-supermarket-loyalty-card-takes-biscuit-big-savings.html
2/8/22: Daily Mail: Accident and Emergency Waits: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11072525/How-12-hour-E-waits-SIX-TIMES-common-NHS-makes-out.html
2/8/22: Daily Express: Petition on Minimum Pension Guarantee:
1/8/22: Daily Record: Petition on Minimum Pension Guarantee: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/new-petition-increase-state-pension-27629964
31/7/22: Sunday Express: Older People and Apps: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1648573/elderly-apps-isolation-technology-business
28/7/22: Daily Mail: Five Minute GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11057641/Englands-deadly-GP-crisis-deepens-Staff-numbers-fall-lowest-level-record.html
25/7/22: Radio 4 You and Yours: Smartphone Apps (7 minutes in): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0019k37
18/7/22: Daily Express: TV Licence Fee Future: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1641895/bbc-licence-fee-households-uk-tv-Nadine-Dorries
17/7/22: Sunday Express: Eco-Heaters and Costs: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1641754/heat-pumps-eco-fines-energy-bills-prices-cost-of-living-silver-voices
13/7/22: Daily Express: BBC Celebrity Salaries Comment Column by Dennis Reed:
12/7/22: Daily Mail: Ghost Patients: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11001649/Ghost-patients-5million-people-not-exist-registered-GP-surgeries.html
10/7/22: Sunday Express: Cost of Living Pressures on New PM: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1638219/prime-minister-cost-of-living-energy-bills-boris-johnson-tory-leadership
9/7/22: Daily Express: Pensions Reform Needed: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1637779/state-pension-news-private-sector-savings-over-50-silver-voices
6/7/22: Daily Express: Silver Voices Call for £200 Minimum Pension Guarantee: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1636175/state-pension-silver-voices-campaigners-Dennis-Reed-pensioners-latest
4/7/22: The Guardian: Future of Postage Stamps: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/04/eventually-it-will-just-be-a-barcode-wont-it-why-britains-new-stamps-are-causing-outrage-and-upset
2/7/22: Daily Telegraph: Digital Only World: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/01/public-comes-last-digital-only-britain/
1/7/22: Daily Mail: Shortage of GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10970269/Want-actual-GP-face-face-appointment-Youve-got-one-four-chance.html
30/6/22: Daily Express: Only One in Twenty State Pensioners Get Top Rate: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1633038/state-pension-shock-figures-silver-voices-dennis-read-oaps-full-weekly-payment-update
29/6/22: Daily Express: Digital NHS: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1632550/nhs-digital-evolution-app-sajid-javid and Express Editorial
28/6/22: Daily Express: Freeview Campaign: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1632417/protect-tv-and-radio-campaign-pensioner-groups-streaming-services
26/6/22: Sunday Telegraph: Patients Visit Pharmacies Instead of GPs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/25/number-patients-turning-pharmacists-medical-advice-rises-44/
23/6/22: Daily Express Editorial: Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1629738/rishi-sunak-pension-uk-triple-lock-energy-bills-cost-of-living-crisis-dennis-reed
23/6/22: Daily Express (and inews): Threats to Triple Lock:
21/6/22: Daily Telegraph: Remote GP Appointments and the Environment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/20/fewer-face-to-face-gp-appointments-good-environment-nhs-says/
20/6/22: Daily Mail: Closure and Mergers of GP Practices: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10934965/A-FIFTH-Englands-8-000-GP-practices-closed-merged-past-decade.html
20/6/22:You and Yours Interview Radio 4: Director Dennis Reed on Digital Voice: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0018g5h (32 minutes into programme)
19/6/22: Sunday Express: Windfall Tax to Pay for Pension Rises: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1627979/amazon-tax-internet-operators-pensioners-cost-of-living
15/6/22: Daily Express: Cost of Living Crisis and State Pensions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1625877/cost-of-living-inflation-pensioners-silver-voices-dennis-reed-energy-bills
15/6/22: Daily Mail: TV Licence Prosecutions: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-10916099/The-TV-licence-court-pay-mistake.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
11/6/22: The Times (behind Paywall): Hospital Visiting Restrictions: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-hospitals-still-refusing-to-allow-visitors-vt2d7fdbh
9/6/22: Daily Mail: Sick Notes and GPs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10898291/Pharmacists-nurses-GPs-clinics-allowed-sign-people-sick-new-measure.html
8/6/22: Daily Mail: 13 Hour Wait in A and E: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10896287/The-shocking-video-lays-bare-dire-state-NHS.html
2/6/22: Daily Express: Save Our Landlines (and LBC Radio Interview): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1619458/telecoms-firms-bt-virgin-landline-phones-britain-voip-latest
1/6/22: Daily Telegraph: GP Shortages: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/31/revealed-worst-areas-gp-shortages-uk/
30/5/22: Daily Express Front Page: GP Missed Appointments: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1617888/gp-nhs-world-health-organisation-Karol-Sikora-Martin-Marshall
30/5/22: Daily Mail: Short GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10866537/More-quarter-consultations-five-minutes-figures-show.html
27/5/22: Daily Mail: Growth in Private GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10862535/3-7-million-patients-paid-private-GP-two-years-amid-face-face-slot-concerns.html
23/5/22: Daily Express: Energy Prices/Windfall Tax (including Comment Column by Dennis Reed): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1614337/cost-of-living-crisis-inflation-windfall-tax-energy-bills
22/5/22: Sunday Express: Cost of Living Survey: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1614007/Cost-of-Living-crisis-tory-party-labour-energy-bills
22/5/22: Sunday Mail: Roll Out of Digital Voice: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-10840711/BT-restart-rollout-dangerous-new-phone-lines.html
19/5/22: Daily Express Editorial: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1612875/inflation-uk-pensions-cost-of-living-crisis-britain-police-rape-tube-strike-jubilee
19/5/22: Daily Express Front Page Splash: Older People Can’t Cope: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1612504/rishi-sunak-inflation-pensioners-cost-of-living-crisis
19/5/22: inews: Older People At Risk In Cost-of-Living Crisis: https://inews.co.uk/news/cost-living-state-pension-increase-uk-inflation-rate-older-people-risks-1636915
18/5/22: Daily Express: TV Licence Fee Unfairness: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1612028/BBC-Greg-Dyke-unfair-licence-fee
18/5/22: Daily Mail: Telephone Wait Campaign: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-10825515/Readers-rally-campaign-fine-firms-call-waiting-times.html
15/5/22: Sunday Express: Cost of Living Front Page Splash: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1610458/rishi-sunak-cost-of-living-crisis-uk-spring-statement
15/5/22: Sunday Times (behind Pay Wall): TV Licence Fee Prosecutions: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hounded-by-licence-fee-enforcers-i-feared-a-criminal-record-at-72-cr52sb2tp
12/5/22: Daily Telegraph: BBC Pay Backlash: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/11/bbc-faces-backlash-staff-see-largest-salary-rise-decade-over/?fr=operanews
11/5/22: Daily Mail: GPs’ Workloads: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10801835/GPs-vote-AGAINST-closing-doors-5pm-following-fury-plans-demand-safe-working-limits.html?msclkid=00d70f60d12 (also the Times)
9/5/22: Daily Express: BBC Priorities: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1607567/bbc-news-licence-fee-lastest-marketing-research-cost
8/5/22: Sunday Express: Cost of Living Minister: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1606962/cost-of-living-crisis-britain-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-inflation-news
3/5/22: Daily Mail front page quote: Where Have All the GPs Gone?: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10776545/Shock-new-figures-just-one-doctor-2-200-patients-NHS-staff-shortages-start-bite.html
2/5/22: Daily Express Online: Local Elections Tory Boycott: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1604183/Local-elections-pensioners-boycott-Tories-broken-promises-cost-of-living-crisis
29/4/22: Daily Express front page splash and comment column by Dennis Reed: Future of TV Licence Fee: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1603135/BBC-TV-licence-scrap-television-licence-Channel-4-Nadine-Dorries
27/4/22: Daily Express: Parkinson’s Charity Prop Up NHS: https://silvervoicesco.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Parkinsons-Donation.pdf
24/4/22: Sunday Mail: Amazon Prime Shops With No Staff:
22/4/22: Daily Mail: Flu Jab Cut-Backs:
21/4/22: Daily Express: Older People and Cost of Living: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1598751/energy-crisis-state-pension-news-hit-fuel-prices-cost-of-living-crisis
21/4/22: Daily Mail: Banks Restricted Opening Hours: https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/173739/santander-blasted-for-slashing-its-bank-branch-opening-hours
20/4/22: Daily Telegraph: NHS Waiting Lists: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/19/nhs-ruse-bust-backlogs-could-see-patients-offered-guidance-rather/
17/4/22: Sunday Mail; GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10724773/Patients-hit-doctor-dismissed-concerns-difficulties-face-face-GP-appointments.html
17/4/22: Sunday Express: Quotes on Energy Prices Nightmare and Article on Increasing Use of Opiates: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1597037/rising-energy-costs-bills-campaigners
16/4/22: The Times (behind Pay Wall): Government Four Years Behind GPs Target: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tories-fall-four-years-behind-in-pledge-to-hire-6-000-more-gps-879rfh3kn
14/4/22: Daily Mail: Royal College Advertising GP Jobs in Australia: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10716067/UK-GP-body-advertising-200k-year-jobs-Australia-better-work-life-balance.html
14/4/22: Daily Mail: GP Numbers Postcode Lottery: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10711851/Patient-doctor-ratio-double-level-seen-1980s-amid-staff-exodus.html
13/4/22: Daily Mirror: Silver Voices and the Local Elections: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-campaign-group-urges-older-2669445
12/4/22: Daily Telegraph (front page lead story); NHS Crisis: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/11/gps-told-work-late-stop-ae-crisis-easter/
12/4/22: Daily Express: Rescue Package for Older People (front page story and leader column support for Silver Voices proposal): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1594648/rescue-package-plea-pensioners-bills-hike
8/4/22: Daily Mail: GPs and Saturday Working: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10695791/Why-NOT-able-face-face-GP-appointment-Saturday-evening.html
7/4/22: Daily Express: DWP Pension Errors: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1592669/state-pension-underpayment-dwp-error-retirement-uk
4/4/22: Daily Mirror: Cost of the Broken Promise on Free TV Licences: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-face-710m-tv-licence-26623508
2/4/22: Daily Express: Fury at Chancellor’s Spring Budget: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1588766/rishi-sunak-spring-statement-pensioners-state-pension-triple-lock-retirement-uk
31/3/22: Daily Telegraph: Changes to Postage Stamps: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/elderly-left-dark-changes-stamps/
29/3/22: Daily Express: Suspend TV Licence Fines Open Letter: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1587975/tv-licence-nadine-dorries-fines-women-uk-latest
28/3/22: Daily Express: Covid Tests Row:
28/3/22: Daily Express: Possible Council Tax Rebate: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1587121/council-tax-rebate-cost-of-living-crisis-survival-guide-rishi-sunak-uk-latest-news
22/3/22: Daily Express: Minister Warns BBC on Prosecution of Over-75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1584643/bbc-licence-fee-latest-news-Silver-Voices-Julia-Lopez-TV-Licence
22/3/22: Daily Mail: Triple Lock Assurances: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10637647/Boost-OAPs-pensions-rise-7-year-return-triple-lock-protection.html
15/3/22: Daily Mail: GP Appointments: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10614895/GPs-quitting-handle-flak-lack-face-face-appointments.html
14/3/22: Daily Express: Scrap Future Pension Age Rises:
13/3/22: Sunday Express: Cost of Living Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1579905/poverty-cost-of-living-elderly-people
7/3/22: Daily Express: Silver Voices Support for Dementia Research Campaign (no online version)
5/3/22: Daily Express: Digital Postage Stamps: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1575593/stamp-outrage-royal-mail-digital-stamps-barcode-major-change
27/2/22: Sunday Mail: Bank Profits: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-10554583/Banks-bosses-refuse-pass-boost-savers.html
26/2/22: Daily Express: Cost of Living and Older People:
24-25/2/22: GP Appointments Down Again: Daily Telegraph (behind Pay Wall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/24/worrying-fall-face-to-face-gp-appointments-despite-plea-restore/ . Also Daily Express
20/2/22: Sunday Express: Covid-19 Restrictions: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1568776/covid-restrictions-lifted-axed-england-pandemic-end-normality-boris-johnson-announcement
20/2/22: Sunday Express: Patients and GPs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1569121/GP-appointments-online-remote-consultations
19/2/22: Daily Express: Government Denial of Older People: Pension news: Rishi Sunak accused of ‘ignoring plight of pensioners’ in UK crisis | UK | News | Express.co.uk
17/2/22: Daily Telegraph (behind Pay Wall): BBC Renews Capita Contract: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/17/bbc-renews-licence-fee-collection-contract-capita/
13/2/22: Sunday Express: Pensioners and Cost of Living Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1565284/cost-of-living-crisis-elderly-campaign
12/2/22: Daily Express: State Pension and Cost of Living: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1563430/state-pension-triple-lock-inflation-retirement-uk
9/2/22: Daily Express: Silver Voices Petition: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1563252/state-pension-increase-amount-emergency-fund-UK-DWP-2022
9/2/22: inews: Government Rejects Emergency Petition Uplift:
https://inews.co.uk/news/energy-bills-support-uk-government-pensioners-rishi-sunak-crisis-1448848
6/2/22: Sunday Express: quote in spread on Energy Crisis (no online version)
3/2/22: Daily Express: Cost of Living Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1560411/state-pension-increase-rise-rishi-sunak-energy-council-tax
2/2/22: Daily Record: £500 Pension Increase Petition: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/petition-for-state-pension-increase-26118303
27/28/1/22: Daily Mail: GPs Priorities: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449933/NHS-England-orders-GPs-prioritise-patients-giving-Covid-19-jabs.html (also Daily Telegraph behind Pay Wall and the Sun)
25/1/22: Daily Express: £500 Pension Call: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1555182/boris-johnson-national-insurance-hike-nhs
24/1/22: Daily Mail: GP Complaints: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10432563/GP-complaints-treble-year-majority-concerns-patients-struggling-make-appointment.html
23/1/22: Sunday Telegraph (behind Pay Wall): Complaints Triple on Access to GPs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/22/complaints-gps-triple-focus-difficulty-getting-appointment/
22/1/22: Daily Mirror: Older People Let Down By Dorries: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-left-bitterly-disappointed-tory-26001721
20/1/22: inews: Need for Emergency Pension Increase as Inflation Rises (also Daily Express):
17/1/22: inews: Disingenuous Culture Secretary Statement on BBC Licences (also comment column in Daily Express): https://inews.co.uk/news/media/bbc-licence-fee-scrapped-tv-announcement-over-75s-threatened-failure-pay-1405464
16/1/22: Sunday Express: GP Appointments: GPs
15/1/22: Daily Mail: MPs Second Homes and Energy Costs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10404277/MPs-charge-3-500-energy-bills-second-homes.html
11/1/22: Daily Mirror: Capita Enforcement Action on TV Licences:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tv-licence-officials-terrorising-over-25909080
9/1/22: Daily Express: State Pension Problems: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1545271/state-pension-uk-triple-lock-inflation-waspi-women-retirement-uk
6/1/22: Daily Telegraph(paywall): Dangers of Remote GP consultations:
1/1/22: i newspaper: Pensions Issues in 2022: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/what-will-happen-to-pensions-in-2022-from-state-pension-increase-to-triple-lock-changes-1369513
30/12/21: Daily Express: Cost of Living Crisis (Silver Voices quoted on front page). (Also story on same subject in Daily Mirror) : https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1542572/state-pension-triple-lock-boris-johnson-energy-bills-cost-of-living-crisis.
17/12/21: Daily Express: BBC Savings on Repeats: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1537526/bbc-christmas-tv-series-mrs-browns-boy-the-repair-shop
16/12/21: Daily Express: Rising Inflation: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1536926/inflation-record-income-cost-of-living
16/12/21: Daily Express: BBC and Visits to Over-75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1536852/bbc-licence-fee-pensioners-demand-end-visit
10/12/21: The Times (behind Paywall): Xmas Restrictions on Care Home Visitors
7/12/21: Daily Express (front page story): Cost of Living Crisis: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1532353/cost-of-living-crisis-bank-of-england-price-rises
5/12/21: Sunday Express: Older People Still Shielding: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-express-1070/20211205/281578063949388
4/12/21: Over 75s Health Checks Dropped: Daily Mail (and Telegraph, BBC News, Radio 4, Radio 5): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10272377/Routine-health-checks-75s-suspended-April-GPs-deliver-boosters.html
28/11/21: Sunday Express: Johnson and Social Care Promise: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1527939/Boris-Johnson-latest-Tory-party-leadership
24/11/21: Daily Express: Overturn Social Cap Decision: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1526213/demand-overturn-decision-social-care-costs-boris-johnson (and Leader Column)
21/11/21: Sunday Express: Postcode Lottery for GPs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1524668/gp-work-hours-part-time-staff-shortage-practice
20/11/21: Daily Express: Boris Johnson Must Intervene on Free TV Licences: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1524175/bbc-licence-fee-update-over-74-free-tv-licence-latest-boris-johnson
19/11/21: Daily Express: BBC Blunder over TV licences: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1523671/BBC-news-TV-Licence-fee-over-75-axe-pensioners-Silver-Voices-campaign
18/11/21: The Guardian: Regressive Social Care Plan:
17/11/21: Daily Mail: Bank Branches and Older People:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/millions-face-pension-poverty-mps-25471447
16/11/21: inews, Daily Express, Daily Mail: Triple Lock Betrayal:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1522092/state-pension-triple-lock-axe-rishi-sunak
12/11/21: The Times: Booster Jabs and NHS App (behind pay wall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/over-60s-face-ban-from-europe-unless-nhs-app-shows-covid-booster-jab-n7l3t69wb
10/11/21: inews: Compulsory Covid Jabs for Health and Social Care Staff: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/mandatory-covid-jabs-new-rules-vaccine-care-home-managers-lose-staff-poll-1293460 ( also in Times and Daily Telegraph)
6/11/21: Daily Express: BBC Customer Care Visits Start: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1517561/BBC-TV-licence-charity-campaign
4/11/21: inews: Triple Lock Debate: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/state-pension-no-prospect-of-government-bringing-back-triple-lock-despite-house-of-lords-defeat-1281948
1/11/21: Daily Express: House of Lords Triple Lock Battle: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1514285/State-Pension-Triple-Lock-rishi-sunak-baroness-altman
31/10/21: Sunday Express: Climate Change and Older People: https://silvervoicesco.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green31.pdf
30/10/21:Daily Express: Tories Will Pay a Price for Budget: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1513412/boris-johnson-older-voters-conservatives-rishi-sunak-budget-pensioners-silver-voices
28/10/21: inews: Budget and Pensions: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/budget/budget-2021-pension-changes-explained-what-mean-pensioners-rishi-sunak-announcement-1272862
28/10/21: Daily Express: Dismal Budget for Older People: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1512376/triple-lock-pension-update-rishi-sunak-budget-2021-state-pension-payments-2022
26/10/21: i newspaper and Daily Express: Last Ditch Attempt To Save the Triple Lock:
25/10/21: Daily Telegraph: Replacing Train Timetables With QR Codes: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/plot-to-replace-train-timetable-posters-with-qr-codes-triggers-safety-fears/ar-AAPTzRq?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBoPWjQ
21/10/21: Daily Express: Alzheimer’s Training for BBC Enforcement Staff: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1509642/tv-licence-fees-pensioners-alzheimers-society
20/10/21: Daily Express: State Pension Double Whammy:
16/10/21: Daily Express: BBC Customer Care Visits Starting: Article and Comment Column by Dennis Reed:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1506899/fears-elderly-bbc-heavies-visit-licence-row
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1506577/bbc-tv-licence-bullying-pensioners
11/10/21: GPs Crisis: Front Pages of Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10078295/Health-postcode-lottery-revealed-data-shows-worst-hit-areas-served-half-GPs-best.html
10/10/21: Sunday Mail: Cost of Living Crisis: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10075379/Millions-rely-basic-state-pension-face-poverty-old-age.html
9/10/21: Daily Mirror: Request for Meeting with Culture Secretary on Free Licences:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/free-tv-licence-campaigners-demand-25171517
5/10/21: Ageism at Work: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1500421/state-pension-age-uk-changes-reduce-63-increase-rise
5/10/21: Daily Mail: GP appointments at Tory Conference: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10058819/Health-Secretary-says-no-problem-online-check-ups-people-want-them.html
1/10/21: Daily Express: Climate Change Survey: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1499578/pensioners-support-climate-change
1/10/21: Daily Mail: Falling GP Appointments (also Telegraph and Express): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047725/Face-face-GP-appointments-fell-one-MILLION-month-despite-restrictions-scrapped.html
27/9/21: Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Mail: Tim Davie Salary Increase and Over 75s’ Anger: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1497108/fury-backlash-bbc-boss-tim-davie-pay-boost
23/9/21: Daily Express: Front Page Story Winter Fuel Payments: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1495251/winter-fuel-payments-rising-energy-bills-gas-prices
22/9/21: Daily Express: Tim Davie Comments on Free Licences: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1494551/BBC-Tim-Davie-Brexit-comments-andrew-bridgen
20-22/9/21: Face to Face GP Appointments: Numerous national reports including: Daily Mail, Express and Telegraph
Daily Mirror 17/9/21: Senior Railcard Refunds: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/pensioner-who-couldnt-travel-due-25008446
Inews 13/9/21: Threats to Tory Votes on Triple Lock:
Inews 8/9/21: Opinion Piece on Social Care Plan: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-social-care-reform-tax-national-insurance-hit-poor-working-pensioners-1186907
Daily Express 8/9/21: Triple Lock Fury: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1488041/fury-pensioners-triple-lock-pension-freeze-one-year (also many other newspapers)
Inews 6/9/21: Winter Fuel Allowances Must be Increased: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/state-pension-increase-winter-fuel-allowance-campaigners-triple-lock-threat-1184796
Inews 4/9/21: Triple Lock Campaign: https://inews.co.uk/news/state-pension-uk-conservatives-will-lose-votes-anger-pension-triple-lock-changes-grows-says-campaigner-1182241 (also covered in the Daily Express)
Daily Express 1/9/21: BBC/Government Negotiations on TV Licence:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1484792/bbc-tv-licence-free-over-75s
Daily Express 31/8/21: State Pension Shortfalls:
Inews 24/8/21: Threats to Conservatives on Triple Lock:
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/state-pension-triple-lock-ends-older-people-tory-support-1163339
Daily Telegraph 27/8/21 and subsequent issues: GP Face to Face Appointments (behind pay wall)
Daily Express 23/8/21: Free TV Licences: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1480460/BBC-TV-licence-fee-latest-pensioners-Sliver-Voices
Daily Telegraph 21/8/21: GP Face to Face Appointments Campaign: Front Page and Leader Column (behind pay wall)
Daily Express Front Page 12/8/21: Triple Lock Warning to Chancellor: https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1475592/State-pension-triple-lock-latest-silver-voices-rishi-sunak
Daily Express 2/8/21: End of TV Grace Period For Over 75s (also covered in the Daily Mirror): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1470833/BBC-TV-licence-free-pensioners-over-75s
Daily Express 30/7/21: Warnings on Triple Lock:
Daily Express 27/7/21: TV Licence Enforcement Letters: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1467943/TV-licence-warning-BBC-latest-news-over-75s-non-payment-protest-enforcement-threat-letter
Daily Express 23/7/21: BBC £40 Million Budget Loss: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1466462/bbc-licence-fee-budget-tv-licence-over-75s-pensioners
Sunday Express 18/7/21: NHS Dentist Crisis: dentist
Daily Express 9/7/21: Threats to Triple Lock: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1460411/triple-lock-pension-rishi-sunak-block-bumper-payout-outrage
Daily Express 6/7/21: Scrapping Free NHS Prescriptions is Economic Madness: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1458978/nhs-free-subscriptions-age-increase-66
Inews 30/6/21: Licence Amnesty End (also covered in Mirror, Express, Mail, Telegraph and others): https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/tv-licence-over-75s-defy-calls-pay-fee-risk-jail-campaign-group-1077262
Scottish Daily Mail 30/6/21: Funeral Expenses (also covered in the Daily Mail): scottish daily mail 30.6
Daily Express 21/6/21: Threats to Triple Lock (FRONT PAGE STORY): https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1452414/pensions-triple-lock-rishi-sunak-pensioners-oap
Sunday Express 20/6/21: Face to Face Appointments with Doctors: Sunday Express 20 June 2021
Daily Mirror 18/6/21: Meeting With BBC Planned: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tv-licences-campaigner-meet-bbc-2434858
Daily Mirror 14/6/21: House of Lords Bill on TV Licences: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-hope-over-75s-tv-24308666
Sunday Express 6/6/21: Abuse by Carers
Daily Mirror 1/6/21: Breaking the Impasse on Free TV licences: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pensioners-demand-end-deadlock-row-24230012
Daily Express 20/5/21: Psychological Warfare by BBC on over 75s: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1438744/bbc-tv-licence-fee-over-75s-letter-silver-voices
Daily Express 5/5/21: Broken Promises Over Social Care Reform https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1432230/boris-johnson-local-elections-update-results-social-care-reform