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21/03/24
Maik:
--- Quote ---Women affected by state pension rise owed compensation and apology from government, report says
Thousands of women affected by changes in the state pension age are owed compensation and an apology, a report has concluded.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman says the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to adequately communicate changes to women's state pension age, and that those affected are owed compensation.
The ombudsman has asked Parliament to intervene and “act swiftly” to make sure a compensation scheme is established.
The group of women born in the 1950s known as "Waspi women" (Women Against State Pension Inequality), say the rise in the state pension age in 1995 led them to suffer financially.
The 1995 Pensions Act and subsequent legislation raised the state pension age for women born on or after April 6 1950 from 60 to 65, then further to 66 - making it the same as the men's state pension age.
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https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-21/millions-of-women-affected-by-state-pension-rise-owed-compensation-and-apology
Maik:
--- Quote ---Apple made the iPhone worse to keep its monopoly over smartphones, US DoJ says in antitrust lawsuit
The US is suing Apple over its control of the iPhone.
The Department of Justice accused the company of using its control over the device to unfairly control the market for smartphones, and take money from its users.
The lawsuit accused Apple of making the iPhone worse in various ways – including reducing privacy protections and restricting features – in order to keep its monopoly over the smartphone market.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/apple-iphone-us-department-justice-monopoly-b2516437.html
Maik:
--- Quote ---Great Escape heroes ‘were betrayed by English collaborators’
Mapmaker who survived the daring breakout believed he and the other 75 men who fled the Stalag Luft III camp were victims of informants
Great Escape prisoners of war were betrayed by English informants, according to claims in newly unearthed intelligence documents.
The 1944 mass breakout from Stalag Luft III, immortalised in the 1963 war film, led to the arrest and execution of 50 Allied escapers, on the direct order of a vengeful Adolf Hitler.
A new document has been unearthed by a surviving PoW which claims that his murdered comrades were betrayed by English informants.
The claims were made by RAF pilot Flt Lt Desmond Plunkett, who escaped along with 75 other prisoners, only to be recaptured and detained for the rest of the war.
He was the basis for Donald Pleasence’s expert forger character Colin Blythe, who discovers in the Great Escape film that he is slowly going blind.
Plunkett was eventually released in 1945, and made to fill in a questionnaire about his imprisonment which has now been unearthed in the National Archives.
The questionnaire suggests that there were two individuals whose activities impacted the fates of the executed PoWs.
There is no evidence Plunkett’s claims were pursued, as no informants have ever been recorded in relation to the mass escape.
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https://archive.is/AVJsS#selection-2923.0-2923.125
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