Sunday, 22 May 2011
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Pampered pensioners cost taxpayer £16bn: Report attacks 'special treatment' that exempts OAPs from cuts
Concessions to pensioners cost the taxpayer £16billion a year, a report claims today.
The elderly have received special treatment and are more or less exempt from spending cuts, according to research by the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Younger people meanwhile have been clobbered by higher tuition fees and cuts to child benefit, the think-tank argues.
Full story here
The elderly have received special treatment and are more or less exempt from spending cuts, according to research by the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Younger people meanwhile have been clobbered by higher tuition fees and cuts to child benefit, the think-tank argues.
Full story here
Thursday, 17 February 2011
It's Supergran 2! Antiques shop worker and colleague batter jewel thieves with iron bars
It's Supergran 2! Antiques shop worker and colleague batter jewel thieves with iron bars
Perhaps it’s time the nation’s criminals stopped seeing old ladies as a soft touch.
Two jewel robbers have been foiled by a grandmother who battered them with an iron bar.
Susan Jenner, 67, sprang into action when Leon Holder and William Smith started smashing glass displays at the antiques shop where she works.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358037/Its-Supergran-2-Antiques-shop-worker-colleague-batter-jewel-thieves-iron-bars.html#comments
Perhaps it’s time the nation’s criminals stopped seeing old ladies as a soft touch.
Two jewel robbers have been foiled by a grandmother who battered them with an iron bar.
Susan Jenner, 67, sprang into action when Leon Holder and William Smith started smashing glass displays at the antiques shop where she works.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358037/Its-Supergran-2-Antiques-shop-worker-colleague-batter-jewel-thieves-iron-bars.html#comments
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