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A pensioner drugged his wife so she could be raped nearly 100 times by 72 men over the space of 10 years, a court has heard.

Pete Daly, 71, says he is living ’out of food banks’ after he was promised almost £600 from his lottery win within 10 days - but he is still waiting for his money five weeks later

Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has been contacted by four people who had not been awarded any inherited state pension when they retired when they should have been

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed that thousands of Brits are missing out on an average of £7,293 each due to a state pension error - and some could be owed even more

Research from the digital wealth manager, Moneyfarm, found that around one in two Brits were not aware of the annual fees they were paying on their savings to their pension provider

Of the 78,759 divorces in 2022, 11,905 couples had been married for more than 25 years. Some 6,683 had been together for 30 years or more - the number of over-60s legally seperating has jumped by more than 60% since 1990

The policy, labelled the “triple lock plus” would copy and paste the triple lock rules and place them on the personal allowance for pensioners - the goal behind the plan is to stop pensioners from paying more of their retirement income in taxes

An elderly woman's handwritten dating ad has got social media users talking after it was spotted stuck to a garden wall – and she didn't hold back describing what she looks for in a man

The family of Jessie Stockdale received a box of ashes after her death, but were later horrified to discover that her body was still being held by a funeral home alongside those of more than thirty other deceased

Anne Saego, 97, was threatened with a £100 fine after a neighbour complained she was attracting pigeons and seagulls to the area - but the amount has now soared to £2,500

The Finance Bill, which was approved in February, scraps the lifetime allowance, which makes the first £1,073,100 in pension savings entirely tax-free

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the triple lock would be in the Tory's upcoming election manifesto and would remain in place throughout the next Parliament if the Conservatives win

An estimated 4.8million pension pots are already classed as missing in the UK and this problem is only set to worsen as people accrue more and more workplace pension pots across their working lifetime

Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who gets by on a small pension and relies on handouts from her secretive husband

After weeks of speculation, the Chancellor finally shared his fiscal plan ahead of the General Election and here we take a look at who is classed as a"winner" in today's budget and who is classed as a "loser"

Mike Fisher, 90, is still averaging a hattrick every game following a footballing career which began 75 years ago in 1949

Roger Clarke, 77, was transferred from an open prison to a maximum security jail after his complaints about breaching of his human rights landed him in hot water with prison bosses

Stephen Habberley, 64, an SAS veteran, had a long running row with Keys Group who often carried out work in the lane behind where they rented and suffered a heart attack after getting in a dispute with builders

Almost a quarter of the population of Marlow in Buckinghamshire are aged over 65 and many of them think a Wetherspoons pub will attract 'the wrong sort of people'

The spooky images were taken by urbexer Kyle Urbex in Lincolnshire. They show that the home was lived in by an elderly couple John Fisher an Mary Angela Fisher with a person called Ursula

Andrelino Vieira da Silva was born on February 3, 1901, just 11 days after Queen Victoria died and has seen countless in what he says is 123 years of living - making him the oldest person alive

The missing pensioner, 77, was marooned on the giant slab of ice on the giant Yenisei River in Siberia. He was last seen floating downstream after the ice became detached from the riverbank

A drug addict got far more than he bargained for when he attempted to steal a disabled pensioner's car - with the elderly woman fighting her corner with a walking stick

Robert Burns Garrow, known as Bobby, was surrounded by family and friends for his special day as he turned 100 years old. He credited his long life to porridge at breakfast and a "wee dram at night"

Pension Credit is also known as a gateway benefit for other financial help and one of the extra perks claimants can get is a free TV Licence if they are over the age of 75 years